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On Monday, November 21, Random House instituted “2-Day Transit,” a new shipping policy aimed at helping independent booksellers during the holiday season.

The best approach to promoting e-books is multiple approaches — feature them in general and targeted electronic and print newsletters, advertise online and in-store, train staff, and “just be relentless”— is the collective opinion of booksellers who shared their best practices with BTW.

For new booksellers and experienced ones who would like a quick review, we present BTW’s annual holiday preparations checklist. We hope you’ll find something here that can help make the season go a little smoother for you, your staff, and your customers.

To find out if teenagers still love the undead, want more werewolves or something else, some indie booksellers ask teens to write their own reviews, which are posted in-store or in e-newsletters.

Thanks to the sponsorship of a local law firm, Inkwood Books was able to donate 100 copies of Zora and Me and to host the book’s authors at two events aimed at students from low-income schools.

Booksellers share their experiences of starting and building YA book clubs for adults and the challenges of introducing the uninitiated to the world of YA lit.

Candlewick Press has named Marika McCoola of The Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley, Massachusetts, as the winner of its CHIRP scholarship to Winter Institute 7.

Matt Norcross, the co-owner of Petoskey, Michigan’s McLean & Eakin Booksellers, recently talked to Bookselling This Week about his store’s strategies for e-book and online sales promotions — some successful, and others that needed a little tweaking.

This year’s full-color, 20-page ABC Best Books for Children Catalog featuring more than 200 fully vetted frontlist and backlist titles is slated to arrive at all ABA member stores by next week.

Four-Eyed Frog responds to closing of local bookstore; McNally Jackson owner featured in New York Times; Vermont bookstores discuss changing business models

Joanna Parzakonis of Bookbug, Lanora Hurley of Next Chapter Bookshop, and Maggie Tokuda-Hall of Books Inc. share tips for attracting and keeping YA book club readers.

Whether you’re playing Chickyboom, Scrabble, or Jishaku, or holding a literary trivia contest, bookstore game nights can draw regulars and boost sales.

A consignment arrangement with small presses has enabled Farley’s Bookshop in New Hope, Pennsylvania, to build a deeper inventory selection that has grown customer interest and the store’s bottom line.

BookPeople’s Steve Bercu recently took part in the Moscow International Book Fair as a member of the Read Russia 2012 Advisory Board. Here are several excerpts from his travel log.

Michael Moore chose his local indie booksellers — Brilliant Books, McLean & Eakin Booksellers, and Saturn Booksellers — to sell signed first editions of his new memoir, Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life.