IndieCommerce

12 Apr

Tech Talk: Keeping Your Website Up to Date

Christine Onorati of WORD and Kelly Justice of Fountain Bookstore offer tips to increase online sales and to ensure your customers know that your website is always open for business.

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15 Mar

IndieCommerce Features Indies Choice and E.B. White Award Finalists

The finalists for the 2012 Indies Choice Book Awards and the E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards are now highlighted on a new page for  IndieCommerce websites. 

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21 Feb

Google eBooks and Self-Publishers

Many indie booksellers have successfully partnered with self-published authors for years, and the growing popularity of digital formats doesn’t mean these relationships have to end.

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16 Feb

Algonquin’s “Lucky 7” Launches

On February 13, Algonquin kicked off “Lucky 7,” a monthly e-book promotion offering seven backlist titles in e-book format for seven days for $1.99 each. This month’s theme is “Author Crush.”

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16 Feb

A Report on ABA’s 2012 Winter Board Meeting

The American Booksellers Association’s Board of Directors met on January 16 and 17, 2012, prior to the seventh annual Winter Institute, at the Astor Crowne Plaza in New Orleans.

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09 Feb

E-Book Promos: Ongoing & Upcoming

The IndieCommerce Publisher Promotions page currently features six promotions: three ongoing and three to launch soon.

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09 Feb

IndieCommerce Adopts Policy Change for Title Listings

On Monday, IndieCommerce informed subscribing stores of a new policy regarding available inventory. Beginning this week, only publishers’ titles that are made available to retailers for sale in all available formats will be included in the IndieCommerce inventory database.

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15 Dec
14 Dec

IndieBound Reader Now Available for iOS

On Monday, Apple approved the American Booksellers Association’s IndieBound Reader™ for iOS, and it is now available for download in the App Store.

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08 Dec

Strong Holiday Sales for Independent Bookstores

Independent bookstores are showing continued resilience this holiday season, with reported online and in-store sales well over last year’s results, according to ABA.

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01 Dec

IndieBound Mobile Reading App Launches

Book lovers who purchase their e-books from independent booksellers online now have their own device-based reading application —The IndieBound Reader.

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17 Nov

New IndieCommerce Features Foster In-Store & Online Cross-Promotions

With the completion last week of IndieCommerce’s pre-holiday upgrades, booksellers have a new set of tools to drive sales between their bricks-and-mortar and online stores and customers have an easier shopping experience.

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10 Nov

IndieCommerce Completes Pre-Holiday Upgrades

Over the past month, ABA IndieCommerce has rolled out a series of major updates to member stores’ IndieCommerce sites. The work, done with the help of Drupal development firm Optaros, was based on bookseller feedback.

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About ABA

The American Booksellers Association, a national not-for-profit trade organization, works with booksellers and industry partners to ensure the success and profitability of independently owned book retailers, and to assist in expanding the community of the book.

Independent bookstores act as community anchors; they serve a unique role in promoting the open exchange of ideas, enriching the cultural life of communities, and creating economically vibrant neighborhoods.

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