Industry News

The first-ever Winter Institute app for iPhone, iPad, or Android puts all of the details about next week’s education event in Denver at attendees’ fingertips, while allowing users to customize their schedules, share messages, and more.

Association of American University Presses backs U.K. collective licensing program; Grant program to make out-of-print humanities titles available as free e-books; Ferlinghetti, Katzenberger win PubWest’s 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award

Attorneys representing two New Orleans bookstores and ABA urged a federal judge to block enforcement of a new Louisiana law that requires website owners to verify that visitors to their sites are 18 or older before providing access to non-obscene material that could be deemed “harmful to minors” because of its sexual content.

An elderly woman crashed her car into Quail Ridge Books & Music on Sunday afternoon after mistaking the gas pedal for the brake.

Jean Margaret Matthews, the former co-owner of Hamilton, Montana’s Chapter One Book Store and the wife of former ABA President Russ Lawrence, died on December 16, 2015. She was 58 years old.

Booksellers are encouraged to use the 2015 Indie Bestseller Lists, in PDF, Word, and HTML formats, as promotional tools to drive sales through the start of the new year.

Registrants for next month’s Winter Institute in Denver should watch for the unveiling of the first-ever Winter Institute app, coming in early January.

ABA is offering members not currently using the IndieCommerce program a chance to win a free year of the e-commerce platform for indie booksellers.

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

Katherine Hannigan, who will be at the Wi11 Backlist Book Swap, recently wrote a letter thanking booksellers for selecting Ida B…and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World as a Revisit & Rediscover title.

As the holiday season reaches its peak and bookstores are at their busiest, it is especially important for ABA members to continue to report to the Indie Bestseller Lists.

BEA has announced the authors who will speak at the 2016 Children’s Author Breakfast on Friday, May 13, at the McCormick Center in Chicago.

Nominations open for CBC’s Teen Choice Book Awards; Books-A-Million becomes private company again; Ingram acquires Aer.io; Penguin Random House raises #GiveaBook campaign level to 50,000 books

Katherine Hannigan and Luis Alberto Urrea, authors whose earlier work has been highlighted in the Indie Next List’s new Revisit & Rediscover feature, will make appearances at the first-ever Backlist Book Swap at Winter Institute.

ABA has begun a new initiative to ensure that its e-mail communications, which cover a wide range of topics and specialties, are reaching the right personnel at member stores.