Specialty Bookselling

The Women’s National Book Association is seeking nominations of bookstores in the U.S. that excel at inspiring kids’ interest in reading, as well as creatively bringing books and young people together.

With the recent arrivals of the ABC Best Books for Children catalog and the New Voices fliers, indie booksellers have two robust tools to help guide holiday shoppers toward a selection of outstanding books for children and teens.

Based on sales at hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending November 8, 2011.

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.

The full-color, 20-page ABC Best Books for Children Catalog is available in a PDF format that booksellers can use to promote sales via store websites and newsletters.

Based on sales at hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending October 23, 2011.

Giovanni’s Room, the oldest gay and lesbian bookstore in the country, has had its place in history officially recognized by the state of Pennsylvania.

With the Major League Baseball post-season now underway, we present the Indie Baseball Bestseller List, based on sales in independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending October 9, 2011.

Based on sales at hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending September 25, 2011.

Based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending September 11, 2011.

Midnight tonight, September 1, is the deadline for ABA member stores to place orders for this year’s ABC Best Books for Children Catalog. Orders of up to 5,000 copies can be placed via an online order form.

Presented here in order by publisher are the more than 200 titles  featured in this year’s ABC Best Books for Children Catalog, scheduled to ship to stores in early October. The deadline for orders is September 1.

Based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending August 21, 2011.

A dedicated committee of 14 children’s booksellers has chosen 20 outstanding  titles — 10 each in the Middle Grade and Young Adult categories — for the 2011 New Voices List, unveiled this week by the ABC Children’s Group at ABA.

Based on sales at hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending August 7, 2011.