Member Benefit Spotlight: Free Course on Frontlist Buying Through Edelweiss
SIBA members are eligible for free classes from the Professional Booksellers School as part of SIBA's PBS Sponsorship. The available classes focus on some of the nuts and bolts of bookstore finances and are recommended for prospective bookstores, new bookstore owners, and any booksellers who would like a refresher on basic concepts:
Frontlist Buying Through Edelweiss
This class from the PBS Inventory Management Course is designed to help book buyers learn to improve discounts and margins by shifting frontlist buying directly to publishers using Edelweiss in conjunction with a publisher rep. It includes Edelweiss terminology, using markup catalogs, and how to create Edelweiss export rules.
This course is a useful refresher for booksellers planning to attend the New Voices New Rooms conference to do their frontlist buying on the exhibit floor, and will help you prep potential orders in advance, which can be refined when you meet with your sales reps.
