IndieBound

The Ninth Annual PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature will take place April 29 – May 5, in New York City. Through a partnership with the ABA, PEN is providing a promo code that will allow ABA bookstore members to offer their customers tickets at 20 percent off the regular price.

The owners and staff at all ABA member bookstores can now cast their ballots for the 2013 Indies Choice Book Awards and the E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards. Voting is open until April 15 via an electronic ballot on BookWeb.org.

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

Based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending March 17, 2013.

To kick off a new monthly feature on #1 Indie Next List Great Reads, BTW recently spoke to Kent Haruf, author of Benediction (Knopf), the top pick on the March 2013 Indie Next List, about his writing process, the worlds he creates, and the way readers react to his writing.

Here’s a preview of the titles on the April Indie Next List flier, on its way to ABA member stores in the IndieBound movement.

Based on sales at hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending March 3, 2013.

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

Due to Winter Institute 8, next week’s Indie Bestseller List will be produced and e-mailed to stores on Wednesday, February 27.

Based on sales at hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending February 12, 2013.

Based on sales at hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending February 3, 2013.

Here’s a preview of the titles on the March Indie Next List flier on its way to ABA member stores in the IndieBound movement.

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

Based on sales at hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending January 20, 2013.

Here are the top 15 bestselling titles in the categories of Hardcover Fiction and Nonfiction, Paperback Fiction and Nonfiction, and Children’s Interest and Illustrated based on reporting from independent bookstores nationwide for the six-week holiday period, from November 23 through December 31, 2012.