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ABA member bookstores now have until midnight on Monday, July 11, to submit their 2015 financial data to the ABACUS-15 survey.

Bookstores in seven cities will hold events on the same night during this year’s celebration of Banned Books Week (September 25–October 1) to highlight challenges to books written by authors of diverse backgrounds.

Harlequin’s MIRA to launch literary fiction imprint; Amazon rumored to plan bricks-and-mortar bookstore for NYC; 2016 Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize winners announced

Award-winning journalist and bestselling humor author Dave Barry kept booksellers laughing at last month’s ABC Children’s Institute with his keynote speech about the fun of writing for children.

Dick Hermans, co-owner of Oblong Books & Music in Millerton and Rhinebeck, New York, explains the store’s geographically inspired name.

Bookstores around the country are hosting release parties on July 30 and 31 to celebrate the publication of the official script book of the stage play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts I & II.

Darrin Pratt to lead Association of American University Presses; Sara Nelson to join HarperCollins; Barnes & Noble launches self-publishing platform

Two-time Newbery Award-winning author Kate DiCamillo moved booksellers to tears at the Children’s Institute with her opening keynote “Owning the Power of Stories, Harnessing the Power of Connection.”

The list of titles on LGBTQ issues, acceptance, and grief suggested by booksellers in the wake of the tragedy in Orlando was updated this week with more than 100 additional recommendations.

Benjamin Rybeck, the marketing manager at Brazos Bookstore, is the author of The Sadness, a debut novel about failure, film, complicated family ties, and the pitfalls of romantic obsession.

Booksellers at all ABA member stores have until July 5 to submit their title recommendations for the 2016 ABC Best Books for Young Readers Catalog.

ABA is asking all booksellers who attended last week’s ABC Children’s Institute to complete a post-event survey, which will help guide plans for future programming.

Former correctional officer Marcy Taylor Rizzi’s new and used bookstore, Booked on 25th, will celebrate its grand opening on July 9 with poetry readings and a lineup of local authors.

Join the hundreds of booksellers who have found the ABACUS survey to be an invaluable tool for financial and strategic planning: Submit your store’s 2015 data via a secure, confidential form by the July 1 deadline.

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