Industry News

Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney’s debut novel, The Nest, the number one Indie Next List pick for April, is “funny, thoughtful, and filled with unique and complex characters,” said Jennifer Oleinik of University Book Store in Seattle.

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

Registration is open for the 2016 IndieCommerce Institute, to be held on Tuesday, May 10, at Chicago’s Drake Hotel, just prior to BEA. The full-day, interactive program offers separate tracks for intermediate and more experienced users.

BEA to debut new networking tools for attendees; NBCC award winners announced; Inaugural Walter Awards for diverse YA presented; James Patterson to launch BookShots

Former BookExpo America event director Steve Rosato has joined digital book distribution platform OverDrive as an international business development executive.

ABA member booksellers can now register for Publicists Speed Dating at BEA 2016, as well as purchase tickets for the ABC and CBC’s Speed Dating Lunch With Children’s Authors and Tea With Children’s Authors and Illustrators.

In a protest over the City of Denver’s approach to handling its homeless population, the activist hacker group Anonymous has threatened to dox — release the personal information of — those it says support Denver’s camping bans. 

Discounted parking at Chicago’s McCormick Place convention center is available to ABA bookseller members at BookExpo America 2016. The trade show and ABA programming run from Wednesday, May 11, through Friday, May 13.

The fourth ABC Children’s Institute will kick off in June with a children’s book-themed Backlist Book Swap; 16 new authors have been added to the Author Reception; and March 31 marks the deadline for scholarship applications. 

Staff at Inklings Bookshop is asking the bookselling community to help raise money for their coworker Mimi Applebaum’s heart transplant by donating signed books and other items for an auction to take place on Independent Bookstore Day.

NPR’s Morning Edition will be broadcast from I Know You Like a Book, in Peoria Heights, Illinois, on Friday, April 8, as part of the show’s new initiative to travel to different small towns across America.

ABA is inviting members and non-members alike to its last three Booksellers Forums of the season: on Friday, April 8, in Boulder, Colorado; on Sunday, April 10, in San Francisco, California; and on Tuesday, April 19, in New York City.

ABA is encouraging booksellers and others in the book industry to share their thoughts on what can be done to increase diversity in both the books available for sale at ABA member stores and within the community of booksellers itself.

Booksellers at all ABA member stores are invited to cast their ballots to choose the winners of the 2016 Indies Choice and E.B. White Read-Aloud awards. The winners and finalists will be feted at the Celebration of Bookselling and Author Awards Lunch at BEA.

Bookseller panelists at the Winter Institute 11 education session “Working With Self-Published Authors” shared best practices for creating partnerships that benefit both self-published authors and the bookstore’s bottom line.