NEIBA
Exchange is
a free service for members to post classified industry-related
ads on an Internet site that is known to and viewed
by people in the bookselling and publishing industries.
The NEIBA website uniquely captures two variables, industry
and location, that define the market for labor, goods
and services of bookstores in New England.
The Exchange, for example, uses the regional and industry
focus of the NEIBA site to advertise bookstore job openings
in a very targeted way to the most likely prospects, New
Englanders in the book business. Publishers seeking to
fill positions with persons having retail bookselling experience
also benefit from its targeted reach.
NEIBA members, publishers and booksellers, are free to
post classifieds for help wanted, positions sought and
for re-selling goods and services such as used fixtures,
inventory, surplus supplies and other items that bookstores
may wish to purchase from other stores.
Postings are free to members. NEIBA will not sell space
on the NEIBA Exchange.
Non-members wishing to post classifieds must contact NEIBA
Executive Director Rusty Drugan at rusty@neba.org for
permission. Only postings that might potentially benefit
members such as “bookstore wanted” or “help
wanted” or “positions wanted” will be
permitted.
The NEIBA Exchange is not intended for marketing titles
from publishers or for other vendors such as wholesalers
or fixture companies to market their goods and services
to bookstores.
It is, rather, a clearinghouse for members to reach each
other with information about jobs, stores for sale or purchase
and re-selling merchandise or goods already purchased as
when stores close and offer their inventory and fixtures
to other stores.
Postings by NEIBA members on the NEIBA Exchange first
require registration of the store or firm that is a member.
Click on the "Register" button for NEIBA Exchange and
follow the instructions. Once registered, members can post
offerings as frequently as they wish. Each member is solely
responsible for the accuracy of its postings.
The NEIBA Exchange and the New England Booksellers Association
are not responsible for any errors. To keep the site up
to date, members must renew their postings every week or
every two weeks, your choice.
The NEIBA listserv will no longer post individual classifieds
from members as they arrive. Instead, every Friday, all
the classifieds received at the NEIBA Exchange during that
week will be collected and sent out to the members via
the listserv, along with a link to the Exchange for those
who wish to see what else is still available.
Members still receive the listserv benefit of a timely
email announcement but now their classifieds are also featured
on the NEIBA website for non-members to view.