Industry News

The next edition of the free Digital White Box from NetGalley features digital galleys of a new children’s book from Kat Spears, new fiction from Indie Next author Lauren Willig, and much more.

Mitchell Kaplan’s Books & Books has won this year’s Publishers Weekly Bookstore of the Year Award, and HarperCollins’ Jennifer Sheridan has been named Rep of the Year.

Up to three booksellers per ABA member store can now book their reservations for ABA’s 2015 Celebration of Bookselling and Author Awards Lunch, to be held on Thursday, May 28, at BEA.

All main store members of the American Booksellers Association will be receiving an e-mail on Monday, March 30, with a link to the ballot to elect a new president, vice president/secretary, and three directors to serve on the ABA Board.

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Today, March 26, Tattered Cover Book Store owner Joyce Meskis announced a two-year timeframe to pass control of the business to book industry veterans Len Vlahos and Kristen Gilligan, his wife.

Tickets are now on sale for two perennial favorites for children’s booksellers at BEA. The events, sponsored by the ABC Children’s Group at ABA and the Children’s Book Council, are the Speed Dating Lunch With Children’s Authors and the Tea With Children’s Book Authors & Illustrators.

ABA is inviting booksellers to three Booksellers Forums to be held on the West Coast from April 7 to 12: in Lake Forest Park, Washington, on April 7; in North Hollywood, California, on April 9; and in San Francisco, California, on April 12.

With all but a few stores’ website content now successfully copied, upgraded, and transferred to IndieCommerce’s new Drupal 7 platform, attention is turning to the final step of the migration.

Tomorrow, March 20, is the deadline for petitions in support of additional candidates for Board officers and/or directors to be submitted to the American Booksellers Association’s Nominating Committee.

On March 12, the Federal Communications Commission released 400 pages of net neutrality rules, in which the commission reclassified broadband Internet service as a public utility, subject to Title II regulation.

ABA’s program at BookExpo America 2015 will once again provide members with two exclusive bookseller-publisher networking opportunities. This year’s offerings — “Meet the Editor” and “Publicists Speed Dating” — were developed in response to very favorable feedback to last year’s program at BEA.

Readers awaiting the May 2 celebration of Independent Bookstore Day can now use an interactive Independent Bookstore Day map to find the more than 350 bookstores that will be selling the event’s special literary-themed merchandise.

Booksellers are invited to ABA Booksellers Forums next week in Fort Collins, Colorado; Ann Arbor, Michigan; and Spring Green, Wisconsin. Each will feature an open forum discussion of industry issues and the new ABA education session “Exploring New Markets.”

The latest American Express program designed to support small businesses offers merchants the opportunity to earn a $100 American Express® Reward Card to help defray the cost of purchasing EMV-enabled card readers for their point-of-sale systems.