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The winners of the 2015 Women’s National Book Association’s Pannell Awards, presented to a general bookstore and a children’s specialty store, were announced on Thursday, April 16.

R.J. Julia to celebrate 25th anniversary; Bookworks marks 30 years with loyalty program launch; Kepler’s plays host to weekly radio program; Literary Hub profiles San Francisco’s City Lights; Itinerant Literate bookmobile holds first event; South Carolina indies team to support SC Book Festival

On Monday, April 20, Vroman’s Bookstore will host an afternoon education session and tours of the store for ABC Children’s Institute attendees.

This weekend, 11 independent booksellers will be exhibiting at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, to be held at the University of Southern California just prior to the ABC Children’s Institute.

The first quarter of 2015 saw five ABA member store openings and six sales of existing businesses to new owners.

Becky Anderson wins Naperville City Council seat; Barrington Books to open second location; Our Town Books employee to purchase shop; Let’s Play Books! hosts Little Free Library

Recent research has found that people born between 1982 and 2004 — the generation known as Millennials — are more interested in print rather than digital reading. 

Watermark’s Sarah Bagby selected as National Book Awards judge; Tattered Cover to open in Aspen Grove this weekend; DIESEL celebrates Poetry Month with audio newsletter

Redbery Books owners Bev and Bill Bauer, who plan to retire in June, are leaving the Cable, Wisconsin, store in the hands of longtime customers Maureen and Brad Palmer.

Mitchell Kaplan’s Books & Books has won this year’s Publishers Weekly Bookstore of the Year Award, and HarperCollins’ Jennifer Sheridan has been named Rep of the Year.

Boswell Book Company’s Goldin honored; Bloomsbury Books turns 35; The Book Shelf mounts an Indiegogo campaign

Today, March 26, Tattered Cover Book Store owner Joyce Meskis announced a two-year timeframe to pass control of the business to book industry veterans Len Vlahos and Kristen Gilligan, his wife.

As Florida’s only feminist bookstore, Wild Iris Books goes well beyond its four walls to create a place for social, cultural, and educational events that celebrate diversity and originality.

Sparta Books marks 50 years; Partners Village Store changes ownership; Bank Street Book Nook owner eyes mayoral seat

Longlists for 2015 PEN Literary Awards announced; National Book Critics Circle names 2015 award winners; Louise Erdrich wins Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction; Grateful American Book Prize established for American history books for children; Richard Russo to receive NAIBA Legacy Award; NAIBA issues Bookstore Visit Challenge; Rakuten buys OverDrive