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Above the Treeline and Ratex Business Solutions Partner

March 2009 - Ratex Press Release
Above the Treeline has been integrated with the VisualRATEX Inventory Management and Point of Sale business solution, from RATEX Business Solutions (RBS), by providing automated daily inventory and sales data feeds to an ATL data processing facility. ATL processes the data nightly, so inventory and sales information are up to date. Above the Treeline offers you straightforward access and review of your data through an easy-to-understand presentation...
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Above the Treeline Named One of PW's Notable Companies of 2007

December 2007 - Publisher's Weekly
Since launching the Web-based inventory management company Above the Treeline five years ago, John Rubin, 37, has revolutionized how independent booksellers can use their store's sales data to more precisely manage their inventory. Not only can ATL subscribers - more than 200 ABA stores and over 200 CBA stores, at last count - check the sales history of a particular title at their store on a daily basis, but they can also ...
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Above the Treeline Adds Book Sense Bestsellers

October 2007 - Bookselling This Week
This month, Above the Treeline began adding Book Sense Bestseller data to its new interface. Bookstores using Treeline software to optimize their inventory selections can now scan weekly Book Sense Bestseller Lists and find which of those titles they have in stock and which they may need to order, among other features. The lists are available in ATL's new beta version under the "Watch List" feature. The new ATL interface is set to officially launch in January 2008 ....
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Technology Applied to Customer Demand - Above the Treeline case study reports benefits in inventory optimization

May 2007 - Aspiring Retail
A two-year Above The Treeline case study demonstrates the power of applying technology to optimize inventory management. Four of the largest multi-store, general-market booksellers using Above The Treeline's inventory-management software reported group aggregate sales jumped 13% or $9.3 million while average inventories declined 0.5% ($174,000) during the past 12 months...
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Above the Treeline and Bookstore Manager partner

February 2007 - Aspiring Retail
Above the Treeline has agreed with technology-solutions provider, Bookstore Manager, to enable retailers using Bookstore Manager’s inventory-control software to directly submit their sales data to Above the Treeline’s state-of-the-art analysis services.
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ABA Partners With Above the Treeline

January 5th, 2006 - Bookselling This Week
This week, the American Booksellers Association announced a new partnership with Above the Treeline, LLC, which provides an online software product designed to help bookstores improve finances by optimizing inventory selection. Through this partnership, all ABA member bookstores that subscribe to Above the Treeline beginning January 1, 2006, will have their set-up fee (around $1,500 on average) waived.
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Booksellers Seeing Well Above the Treeline

January 12th, 2006 - Bookselling This Week
Through a new partnership between the American Booksellers Association and Above the Treeline (ATL), ABA member booksellers can now subscribe to ATL's online software product -- designed to help bookstores improve finances by optimizing inventory selection -- at a discounted rate and without the initial set-up fee.
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Retailers looking Above the Treeline

August 2, 2004 - Christian Retailing
Retailers who attended CBA’s Above the Treeline (ATT) workshop during CBA International were optimistic about the help the data-tracking program might provide their stores.
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Looking Above the Treeline - Real hands-on results from Retailers

March 2005 - CBA Marketplace
Our competition is pumping up its efforts on in-stock selection on Christian titles,” Michael Covington, general manager at The Master’s (Clovis, NM), says. As the Christian-retail channel works to differentiate itself from the competition, stores must aim for best practices in inventory management, price perception, customer service, merchandising, staff management, budgeting, and more to increase foot traffic, restore financial health, and increase profits.
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Above the Treeline - A new vantage point for independent retailers

September 2004 - CBA Marketplace
Imagine a tool that could help you understand inventory better, free up time and money, link you to a community of other independents and publishers, and provide practical information to help you compete successfully. Above the Treeline—a web-based software tool for independent stores—is doing just that...
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Opens POS Like a Book - Above the Treeline makes critical data accessible and practical

Industry Watch
Many people use buzzwords— such as “data driven”—to cover what they don’t know, but for retailers, “data driven” is becoming a survival necessity. In an industry where inventory turns average two—compared to other channels that churn four to six—information about sales, inventory, and stock provides reality hooks...
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Watch Your Backlist

November 2005, Publishing Trends
Backlist has always been a cash cow for those willing to milk it. Publishers have long tried enticing booksellers with annual promotions, Buy-Now-Pay-Later deals, Just In Time Inventory and the like – all with the hope of boosting their backlist cushion...
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Making Sense of Inventory - Treeline gains traction among booksellers and publishers

November 2005, Publisher's Weekly
A project by Roberta Rubin's son to help her manage cash flow at the Book Stall, her Winnetka, Ill., bookstore, has turned into a Web-based inventory management tool that has captured the interest of not only independent booksellers but publishers as well. Josh Marwell, head of sales at HarperCollins, went so far as to call the system "revolutionary."
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