In response to requests from member booksellers, the American Booksellers
Association has created an online forum specifically for users of the Anthology
inventory control system. The new forum link is located directly below the
general Inventory Control Forum on Bookweb's Idea Exchange.
Booksellers requested the Anthology forum to essentially create an "Anthology
users group."
Every week dozens of booksellers seek and share advice and information about
bookselling and the book industry in the Idea Exchange forums, which are open to
ABA bookstore and provisional members only. (Booksellers who do not already have
a BookWeb Account will need to create one -- to do so)
In addition to the Inventory Control forums, the Idea Exchange includes the
Bookseller-to-Bookseller Forum, which provides ABA member booksellers with an
opportunity to network and to benefit from the perspectives that could only be
gained from other booksellers; the Ask ABA Forum, which provides an opportunity
to ask questions or make comments directed towards the ABA Board and staff; Ask
BookSense.com, where booksellers can ask questions of the BookSense.com staff,
as well as discuss concerns and find out how other booksellers are using the
e-commerce site; and the Education Forum, to share thoughts and experiences, ask
questions, and offer tips on material presented at ABA's education programs.