For Stores
Join us
Join Independent College Bookstore Association and experience the resources, community, programs and opportunities that enhance every aspect of your professional development and improve your retail operations. We connect great ideas and great people.
Together we are making good stores better.
- Improve your bottom line with unsurpassed buying programs
- Stay ahead of change with industry-leading education & professional development
- Gain competitive insights through exclusive institutional store sharing, formal and informal networking, resources and services
- Improve your vendor relations through ICBA Buying Programs and PRIMEtime Buyer & Vendor Exchange
- Maintain a decision-making voice & pride of ownership. Our members are our owners.
Independent College Bookstore Association exists to help institutional stores like yours. Collegiate retailing is a dynamic and exciting retail channel focused on serving three main communities: students expecting the highest level of services and integrity, faculty with needs as diverse as their disciplines and administrators who rely on successful operations to support growing needs. To be a successful collegiate retailer requires pride, passion, commitment, resources and innovation.
It is our mission to provide you with the programs and services that will establish your institutional store as the preferred management solution for your institution.
Annual ICBA membership
Annual ICBA membership runs January through December. Membership payment is due annually on December 31st. Complete your membership application online. Membership dues are based on your store's annual sales, as follows:
- $600 for stores with sales less than $1 million
- $1200 for stores with sales from $1 million to $3,999,999
- $2000 for stores with sales from $4 million to $6,999,999
- $2600 for stores with sales from $7 million to $9,999,999
- $3300 for stores with sales over $10 million