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Daybreak Press Global Bookshop in Minneapolis provides a safe space where people from all walks of life can safely come together to share their passions, learn from one another, and engage with complex social issues.

Candlewick to publish interactive tie-ins to J.K. Rowling movie Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them; IPG acquires INscribe Digital; Simon &Schuster to distribute Hazelden Publishing; WNBA announces new executive officers; SCIBA Book Award finalists announced; PEN America urges presidential candidates to provide open environment for journalists

How to use leveled book designations to guide parents and children to appropriate reading choices that are both fun and educational was the subject of a panel discussion at last month’s Children’s Institute.

To help facilitate discussions with digital audiobook providers, ABA is asking members to complete a brief survey about what their stores might want and need from an affiliate-based, third-party digital audiobook program.

A new online platform created by the Seattle-based technology company Libro.fm allows independent bookstores to offer digital audiobooks to their customers through cobranded online storefronts.

Retail sales at bookstores were up by 3.1 percent in May 2016 compared to May 2015, according to preliminary figures recently released by the Bureau of the Census.

Senate confirms Carla Hayden as Librarian of Congress; NEA Big Read announces new focus; Christopher Myers to launch imprint with Random House Children’s Books; Carl Lennertz named Children’s Book Council executive director; Inaugural edition of Buzz Books: Romance released; AAP survey reveals book industry net revenue of $28 billion in 2015; Malaprop’s owner discusses post-H.B. 2 decline in business; Longlist for the 2016 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize announced; PEN America introduces PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers

Steve Bercu of Austin’s BookPeople delivered the keynote speech at the Booksellers New Zealand annual conference earlier this month, where he talked about why bookstores in the U.S. are thriving despite the challenges they face.

Here is background on the American With Disabilities Act as it relates to retail websites, a look at changes ABA has made to the IndieCommerce platform, and action steps for ABA members with online stores.

The second quarter of 2016 saw 20 ABA member store openings and six sales of existing businesses to new owners.

At the ABC Children’s Institute, Dominican-American author Julia Alvarez inspired booksellers with the story of her transformation from a poor student and reluctant reader to a prolific novelist and humanitarian.

For a chance to win Europa Editions’ International Book Fair Scholarship to this October’s Frankfurt Book Fair, bookstores must notify the publisher by July 30 of their plans to host an event in support of the November 1 launch of Elena Ferrante’s two new books.

Sara Ornelas, a substitute teacher and mother of two, will open Blue Baboon Books, a new mobile children’s bookstore in Wichita, Kansas, on Saturday, July 16.

ABA reminds bookstores taking part in the Indie Next List Years of Discovery Campaign that it’s now time to share photos of their July Indie Next List title displays by posting a photo to social media or featuring the display in a store e-newsletter.

The deadline for booksellers to submit title recommendations for the 2016 ABC Best Books for Young Readers Catalog has been extended to this Friday, July 15.