Industry News

Just in time to reach early holiday shoppers, Kobo has implemented a price drop for the Kobo Aura HD eReader.

Lake Forest celebrates 65th anniversary; Charis marks 40 years; Hooray for Books! seeks funds for expansion; Women & Children First rallies community support; Russo’s opens office space

BEA is inviting exhibiting publishers to submit proposals for the 2015 trade show’s Adult Editors’ Buzz, Young Adult Editors’ Buzz, and Middle Grade Editors’ Buzz by December 5.

Baker & Taylor, the lead sponsor of the April 2015 ABC Children’s Institute, has awarded one scholarship to the institute to an ABA member store at each of this fall’s eight regional shows.

Friday, October 31, is the last day for ABA member stores to take advantage of great offers from publishers participating in this year’s Indies First promotion, as well as the final day to sign up for the Indies Introduce program for Winter/Spring 2015.

Vallejo Bookstore opens; Greenville, South Carolina, bookstore finds a home; Papercuts JP launches Indiegogo campaign

Nine e-book promotions were recently added to the IndieCommerce Publisher Promotions page. Categories include Halloween reads, World Series titles, and cookbooks.

Booksellers must order by October 31 to take advantage of special terms from publishers who are showing their support for the Indies First campaign with unique offers on a wide array of frontlist and backlist titles.

Following his announcement of the Upstream initiative last week, Daniel Handler will be working with The Booksmith to provide customers with signed copies of his titles.

ABA is asking booksellers to complete a short online survey aimed at improving and focusing the content in the Book Buyers Handbook.

Consortium adds four distribution clients; AmEx Open study looks at state of women-owned businesses; Lonely Planet names senior sales manager

To take advantage of the special, one-time Kobo Aura H2O holiday order, supported by ABA, stores must place their orders via the Kobo Reporting Tool by next Monday, October 27.

Booksellers have just one more week to order specially designed Independent Bookstore Day tote bags, featuring a special six-panel  illustration, “Time-to-Spare Book Club,” by 2014 National Book Award nonfiction finalist Roz Chast.

In a New York Times op-ed dated October 19, economist Paul Krugman contends that Amazon.com is not so much a monopolist, but a “monopsonist, a dominant buyer with the power to push prices down.”

Booksellers can ramp up their publicity efforts for Small Business Saturday with free marketing materials from American Express/Shop Small.