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10 Apr

Bookseller Roundtable Calls Attention to Free Digital Marketing Tools

The most recent online marketing roundtable hosted by ABA introduced participating booksellers to a number of digital marketing tools that are available online and free to use.

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11 Apr

Wi13 Education: Best Practices for Conducting Staff Meetings

Bookseller panelists at Winter Institute discussed how staff meetings can reinforce a bookstore’s mission and provide an opportunity to share updates and brainstorm solutions to problems.

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04 Apr

Indie Bookstores Near Amazon Books Locations Report Minimal Repercussions

Bookselling This Week caught up with four ABA member bookstores located near Amazon Books stores to see how their businesses were faring two years after the first location opened in Seattle.

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03 Apr
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

“The Hate U Give” Author Angie Thomas to Speak at Children’s Institute

Here, bestselling debut author Angie Thomas discusses what prompted her to write The Hate U Give and what she plans to talk about during her keynote speech at Children’s Institute.

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27 Mar

Source Booksellers Hosts BBC’s World Book Café Radio Program

Source Booksellers in Detroit played host to a panel this month on the literary life of the city as part of the BBC’s World Book Café radio series.

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28 Mar

Aesop’s Treasury Draws Readers and Gamers to Farmington, Missouri

Aesop’s Treasury, a new book and game store owned by married couple Vince and Lisa Howard, opened earlier this year in the city of Farmington, Missouri, located about 70 miles from St. Louis.

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14 Sep

A Q&A With Carmen Maria Machado, Author of October’s Top Indie Next List Pick

Booksellers have chosen Carmen Maria Machado’s debut short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories, as the #1 Indie Next List pick for October.

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16 Mar

Christine Mangan on April’s #1 Indie Next List Pick, “Tangerine”

Christine Mangan’s debut novel, which explores the darker side of female friendship, “is an absolute stunner,” said Erika VanDam of RoscoeBooks.

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21 Mar
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New Indie Bookstore Coming to Erie, Pennsylvania

“I really want it to be a special place for the community, where they can get a unique and pleasant shopping experience that they can’t get online,” said Tracey Bowes, who will open Pressed in April.

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13 Mar
Porter Square Books

Porter Square Books Owners Enter Succession Agreement With Employees

David Sandberg and Dina Mardell will sell 50 percent of the store’s equity to a management group of nine; the employees will use their share of the store’s profits to repay the money over a 10-year period.

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