Industry News

As part of its ongoing Indie Next List Years of Discovery Campaign, ABA is offering members who have never submitted a blurb to the Indie Next Lists a chance to win two free hotel nights at BookExpo America 2017.

George by Alex Gino receives NAIBA’s Carla Cohen Free Speech Award; 2016 Hugo Award and John W. Campbell Award winners announced; Marilynne Robinson wins 2016 Holbrooke Award

The August 24 IndieCommunication newsletter features updates on a move to HTTPS everywhere, one-on-one meetings at the SIBA trade show, a schedule change for ACH transfers, and other news.

Following a controversial proposal by Rutland, Vermont’s mayor to accept up to 100 Syrian refugees, Will Notte, senior bookseller at Phoenix Books Rutland and president of the city’s Board of Aldermen, created a book display to educate residents about the country and its people.

Creston Books, a small children’s book publisher in Berkeley, California, produces quality picture books and middle grade titles, at least a third of which are by debut authors.

Milkweed Books, a nonprofit bookstore owned and operated by independent publisher Milkweed Editions, is nearly ready for its debut at Open Book, the nonprofit literary arts center in Minneapolis.

ABA is offering the full-day workshop “Principles of Bookstore Finance” on Saturday, October 15, in Baltimore and on Wednesday, October 26, in San Francisco, prior to the New Atlantic and Northern California independent booksellers association trade shows, respectively.

The American Booksellers Association is currently accepting applications from booksellers for publisher-sponsored scholarships to the 2017 Winter Institute.

Kea Wilson of Left Bank Books talks about her writing career and the inspiration for We Eat Our Own, her debut novel based on a controversial 1980 Italian horror exploitation film.

The order deadline for the 2016 ABC Best Books for Young Readers catalog is August 31. The full-color, 20-page consumer circular will feature more than 200 frontlist and backlist titles for children and teens.

B&N announces CEO’s departure; Amazon to start collecting sales tax in Alabama; PEN/Nabokov Award revived to honor international writers; Christian Robinson to illustrate 2017 Children’s Book Week poster; Sesame Street and Running Press team up

Booksellers interested in applying for a chance to win a publisher-sponsored scholarship to the 2017 Winter Institute can do so now via a form on BookWeb.org.

DeAndra Beard, founder of Beyond Borders Language Learning Center, opened Bind Café and Beyond Barcodes multicultural bookstore in January to extend the center’s mission of bringing the community together through language, learning, and discussion. 

Caroline Stephenson is opening Cultivator Bookstore to “cultivate” community, foster literacy, and improve the quality of life for families living in the rural, high-poverty community of Murfreesboro.

Retail sales at bookstores were up by 5 percent in June 2016 compared to June 2015, according to preliminary figures recently released by the Bureau of the Census.