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30 Dec

Wi9 Plenary Speaker Dan Heath on Reality-Testing Your Assumptions

Dan Heath, the co-author with his brother, Chip, of the bestselling business book Decisive, will be the opening plenary speaker at Winter Institute 2014. Here, he offers booksellers facing decisions a few tips for overcoming “confirmation bias” — the tendency to seek out information that confirms our existing beliefs or preferences.

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30 Dec

Don't Miss an Indie Next Nomination Deadline

Owners and managers are encouraged to post the list of 2014 Indie Next List deadlines in their stores’ backroom or wherever reading copies and ARCs are kept to encourage staff to nominate the titles they will be enthusiastically handselling in the coming months.

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30 Dec

The February 2014 Indie Next List Preview

Here’s a preview of the titles on the February Indie Next List flier, on its way to ABA member stores in the IndieBound movement. A downloadable PDF version of the list will also be available beginning February 1.

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19 Dec

The Cottage Book Shop Celebrates All Things Local

In a resort community whose population more than doubles in the summer months, Barbara Siepker has nurtured a book shop and a nonprofit publishing company that celebrate permanence and the area she calls home.

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