Industry News

Brit Bennett, author of the #1 October Indie Next List pick, and Yaa Gyasi, whose debut is a June Indie Next List pick and a Summer/Fall Indies Introduce title, are on the NBF’s “5 Under 35.”

ABA’s Principles of Bookstore Finance Workshops will show booksellers how to apply the components of financial management to real-life bookstore situations.

Frank Reiss, owner of Atlanta’s A Cappella Books, explains why he chose a musical term for the name of his general bookstore 27 years ago.

By submitting their first-ever blurb to the Indie Next Lists, booksellers will be entered into a drawing for two free hotel nights at BookExpo America 2017.

Banned Books Week kicked off with a message sent to more than 1.6 million supporters on Facebook and Twitter, followed by events around the country.

Since 2008, Phoenix, Arizona’s award-winning Adaptive Reuse Program has been making it easier for developers and small businesses to renovate older buildings for new uses.

California booksellers oppose new law for signed books and art; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt CEO Linda Zecher resigns; Grant from Stephen King benefits students, local bookstore; MacArthur “Genius” Grants awarded to authors; T.C. Boyle wins Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award; Harrison Scott Key wins Thurber Prize for American Humor

Winter Institute 12 registration reached capacity on Thursday morning, September 29; booksellers who are interested in attending can now add their names to a waitlist.

Two authors whose debuts were chosen by booksellers for the Winter/Spring 2017 Indies Introduce program were beneficiaries of the Associates of the Boston Public Library Writer-in-Residence program.

Last Saturday’s Library of Congress National Book Festival drew more than 100,000 people to the Washington, D.C., convention center, where official bookseller Politics & Prose featured 400 titles by the event’s 120 authors, poets, and illustrators.

Downloadable fliers and shelf-talkers are now available to promote the October Indie Next List’s Next Great Reads, Now in Paperback titles, and Revisit & Rediscover backlist favorites.

ABA member stores can once again take advantage of specials on a wide array of Indies First frontlist and backlist titles.

There is still time for ABA members to nominate candidates for the association’s 2017 Board of Directors elections; self-nominations are acceptable.

The 2016 ABC Best Books for Young Readers catalog will soon be arriving in stores. To help booksellers with ordering, titles and bibliographic information are available in a downloadable Excel spreadsheet.

Seven bookstores in different parts of the country will celebrate “A Night of Silenced Voices” on September 27, during Banned Books Week.