Industry News

New holiday designs for everything from posters and bookmarks to fliers and web banners are now available in the Bookseller DIY on BookWeb. 

The IndieCommerce training webinar scheduled for November 18 has been cancelled; however, bookseller input is sought on future dates.

AAUP opens Washington, D.C., office; Houston’s Table Restaurant to add bookstore; Amazon opens brick-and-mortar bookstore in Seattle; Fledgling LGBT publisher Query Books reaches fundraising goal

Media Coalition, whose members are eight media and entertainment trade associations, including ABA, has been defending First Amendment rights since 1973. Its latest challenge to a law threatening those rights was filed this week on behalf of Garden District Book Shop and Octavia Books, among others.

Booksellers now have access to new images, logos, and other promotional materials to help publicize Small Business Saturday and Indies First. The new materials are posted in BookWeb’s Designs & Downloads.

Alsace Walentine, the former author events coordinator at Malaprop’s, provides an update on her plans to open a bookstore in St. Petersburg, Florida.

This week, Penguin Random House announced that, for the first time, Penguin adult and children’s print new releases, frontlist, and backlist will be part of the company’s annual Two-Day Transit holiday shipping program. Weekend shifts added at two distribution centers through the year-end will also expedite order fulfillment.

On Friday, October 30, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted final rules that will allow companies to offer and sell securities through crowdfunding.

Bookstore owners and managers can head to HealthCare.gov at any time during the year to see what health care plans they can offer to their employees.

ABA has joined two New Orleans bookstores in filing a legal challenge to a new Louisiana law that requires website owners to post a page where customers must indicate whether they are 18 or older before accessing material that is “harmful to minors” because of its sexual content.

Winter Institute 11 registrants take note: Next Thursday, November 12, registration opens for the event’s Advanced Learning Education sessions for owners and managers and for full- and half-day tours of Denver-area bookstores, open to all bookseller attendees and international guests.

After more than 20 years at the helm of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, on Tuesday, November 3, Thom Chambliss announced his plans to retire by spring 2016.

All Winter Institute registrants are encouraged to share a favorite backlist title for the event’s first-ever Backlist Book Swap via a form on BookWeb.

Booksellers can supplement their supplies of the 2015 ABC Best Books for Young Readers Catalog by placing an order now via an online form.

The IndieCommunication newsletter of October 28 features a link to register for the latest training webinar, a reminder about uploading holiday catalogs, and news about the return of the advanced search function.