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05 Dec

2013 Indie Bestseller Lists Ready for Download

The 2013 Indie Bestsellers Lists of the year’s top-selling titles at hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide are available in PDF, DOC, and HTML formats.

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05 Dec

2014 Winter Institute Session Presenters Announced

This week, ABA announces the presenters and panelists for the 2014 Winter Institute’s breakout sessions, to take place from Wednesday, January 22, through Friday, January 24, 2014.

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22 Nov

2014 Indie Next List Nomination Deadlines

Ensure your staff favorites are reflected in next year’s Indie Next Lists by downloading the complete list of 2014 nomination deadlines and posting it in your store’s back room or wherever reading copies and ARCs are kept.

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25 Nov

The December ’13 Now in Paperback Fliers & Shelf-Talkers

The December Indie Next List’s 12 “Now in Paperback” titles are featured with bookseller quotes on a downloadable flier and shelf-talkers.

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21 Nov

Mary Engelbreit Gift Certificates in Stock

ABA member bookstores can once again purchase the popular Mary Engelbreit gift certificates, which bear the tagline “A Book Is a Present You Can Open Again and Again.”

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14 Nov

55 Winter Institute Scholarship Winners Named

This week, ABA announced the winners of 55 scholarships to the 2014 Winter Institute in Seattle. Forty-nine of the scholarships have been awarded to booksellers by the Winter Institute’s publisher sponsors.

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07 Nov

Indies First Publicity Templates, Map Now Available

ABA has created press release templates and sample social media posts and tweets that stores can use to create their own publicity outreach for Indies First and Small Business Saturday. An interactive map of participating Indies First stores and their visiting authors is now live.

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30 Oct

Friday Deadline for Indies Introduce Debut Authors

Friday, November 1, is the final day for ABA member bookstores to select their titles for the Spring 2014 Indies Introduce Debut Authors promotion.

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24 Oct

Redesigned Thanks for Shopping Indie Marketing Materials Now Available

Based on input from booksellers on ABA’s Marketing Task Force, the logo and other materials for this year’s Thanks for Shopping Indie promotion have been totally redesigned. The new graphics include a new logo, web banners, and a letter-size poster.

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17 Oct

2014 Penguin Indie Retail Partnership Sign-up Open

Stores have until November 15 to sign up for Penguin’s “2014 Independent Bricks & Mortar Full-Service Bookstore Retail Partnership,” which is designed to increase sales and profits and reduce returns on both frontlist and backlist titles.

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