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Orders for this year’s ABC Best Books for Young Readers Catalog are being accepted through August 31. The full-color, 20-page consumer circular is slated to be in stores in early October.

Robert “Bob” W. Hugo, the founder of HugoBooks, died on July 27, 2016, in Newburyport, Massachusetts, of complications from a recent illness. He was 72.

Time is running out for ABA bookstore members that want to receive the 2016 Banned Books Week display kit, distributed by American Booksellers for Free Expression.

Penguin Random House announces office consolidation plans; B&T launches Global Publishers Services; T.C. Boyle wins inaugural Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award; Bonnier Publishing launches Bonnier Publishing USA; Kuyper resigns as BISG executive director

The sharp decline in the number of small, independent businesses in the U.S. is due, at least in part, to “anticompetitive behavior by large, dominant corporations,” according to a report by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance.

Country Bookshelf wins Europa International Book Fair Scholarship; Let’s Play Books! and Trails End to move and expand; This House of Books finds a home; Browseabout’s Rodgers named NAIBA Handseller of the Year; Book Beat recognized as “super store”; Phoenix Books voted best bookstore

As development continues on Winter Institute 12’s educational programming, booksellers who have expertise related to specific session topics are asked to contact ABA.

Booksellers who are thinking about their travel plans to Winter Institute 12 should be aware that before the event officially kicks off with an opening reception on Friday evening, January 27, there will be much happening earlier in the day.

Former NCIBA executive director Hut Landon is looking to expand readership for “Hut’s Place,” his weekly e-newsletter focusing on book recommendations.

ABA will be presenting a full-day workshop on the principles of finance, led by Robert Sindelar, managing partner of Third Place Books, and Robyn DesHotel, ABA's chief financial officer, just prior to the NAIBA and NCIBA fall trade shows.

On Saturday, September 24, Washington, D.C.’s Politics & Prose will once again be the official bookseller for the Library of Congress National Book Festival. 

ABA member stores can place their orders for this year’s ABC Best Books for Young Readers Catalog from now until August 31 via an order form on BookWeb.org.

Oprah’s Book Club selects Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad; Hefner First Amendment Awards seeking nominations; NAIBA names Ian Doherty sales rep of year; Library of Congress National Book Festival to feature 120 authors, illustrators; S&S to distribute Ryland, Peters & Small; Tracy Nelson promoted to S&S director of retail field sales

The fifth annual celebration of Find Waldo Local wrapped up over the weekend as indie bookstores hosted parties featuring snacks, prizes, and live Waldo scavenger hunts.