NAIPR
1989-2010
Our 3rd Decade—The Legacy Continues
December 2009
To: NAIPR Associate Members/Prospective Members
Fr: Paul C. Williams, Executive Director
Re: Associate Membership for 2010-we need your tax-deductible support!
You're warmly invited to join NAIPR as an Associate Member or renew your Associate Membership. We are pleased to ask for your tax-deductible support for one of the most vital and long-enduring segments of the book publishing industry-of which we should all be very protective and proud-independent publishers' representatives! But NAIPR must have membership support to remain vital and progressive!
If you are receiving this memo, you or your organization are already an active Associate Member, have been an active member in recent years, or are among the more than 300 publishers that avail themselves of NAIPR's Frontlist Plus UniversalSM data-entry service for booksellers.
On behalf of our Board of Directors, I am pleased to report that NAIPR, founded in 1989, is enduring, has consolidated its activities, and is positioned to thrive in our third decade of service. All of us are coming through what has been perhaps the most challenging year we have faced in a long while. And NAIPR must have membership support to remain vital and progressive!
During the past year, even in the face of tough economic times, NAIPR has successfully enhanced and re-launched Frontlist Plus UniversalSM, our association's vital service to a community of independent buyers and booksellers. Our remarkable ASP is also the new-title data source for sales representatives that simplifies your sales department information procedures and an astonishing, progressive contribution to our industry struggling with e-catalog technology and frontlist ordering. Frontlist Plus UniversalSM helps you, the publisher, to remain proactive with your new-title pathway for now and for the future. But NAIPR must have membership support to remain vital and progressive!
Associate Member dues are only $50 per calendar year! Your tax-deductible membership affords you and your company the full rights and privileges of membership, including:
· Rightful claim to support for industry diversity, accessibility, freedom of expression
· Discount badges for BEA 2010 in New York City ($65 off regular price!)
· Available Frontlist Plus UniversalSM (our vital service to the industry)
· The Call Report™ (your connection to news and views among members)
· Sample letters of agreement for engaging commission sales reps (email us!)
· Easy access to Association directories and publications (just call Paul Williams)
· naipr.org (alphabetical and geographic listings by rep, rep group, Associate Members)
· NAIPR Meetings (fellowship, food, forums, featured speakers, and more!)
· NAIPR-sponsored events at regional bookseller association conferences
Associate Membership in NAIPR is simple-and simply the right thing to do!
Mail your tax-deductible membership dues today . . . thanks.
