Industry News

Digital galleys of an array of adult and children’s titles in the Winter/Spring 2015 Indies Introduce Debut Authors and New Voices promotion are now available on NetGalley.

In response to the extraordinary popularity of the Grove Park Inn, the 2015 Winter Institute host hotel, ABA has launched an online forum for potential room-sharing arrangements among booksellers.

Jodi Picoult, author of Leaving Time (Ballantine Books), discusses why she chose to write about elephants, how she researched their behavior, the strength of mother-daughter bonds, and the role independent booksellers have played in her career.

Simon & Schuster is teaming up with Baker & Taylor to offer expedited shipping on reorders to West Coast independent booksellers from October 1 through March 2015.

The Northern California Independent Booksellers Association’s fall show has been rechristened the NCIBA Discovery Show to reflect a greater emphasis on discovering new books, new authors, and new knowledge.

The Random House Two-Day Transit holiday shipping program will be back for a third year, beginning November 1 and running through January 30, 2015.

Maria’s Bookshop celebrates 30th anniversary; Broadway Books finds new co-owner; Scuppernong Books adds new owners; Left Bank Books voted Best Bookstore; Literati Bookstore expands, adds coffee shop; King City Books opens for business

Authors United to ask Justice Department for Amazon inquiry; Women’s National Book Association selects Great Group Reads; NCAC announces winners of Cameron Post Essay Contest; Penguin Random House in partnership with Universal Pictures

With the recent release of the paperback edition of Stephen Jimenez’s controversial The Book of Matt: Hidden Truths About the Murder of Matthew Shepard, ABFFE President Chris Finan reflects on the failed efforts to force 23 bookstores to cancel their events for the book last year and announces plans for an ABFFE program at Winter Institute.

Congress to take up e-fairness post-election; Amazon to collect in Minnesota and Maryland

ABA is urging its member bookstores to help the #efairnessnow social media campaign go viral by posting campaign images on their Facebook and Twitter feeds, or, as Harvard Book Store in Cambridge did, create and post their own #efairnessnow image.

The newest addition to the list of keynote presenters for the 10th anniversary of the Winter Institute is Azar Nafisi, author of the national bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, the winner of the 2004 Book Sense Book of the Year Award for nonfiction.

The ABC One-Two-Three newsletter, an exclusive benefit for members of the ABC Group at ABA, will arrive via e-mail every other month with important news and updates.

Registration and hotel reservations for Winter Institute 2015 opened last Thursday, September 18, and sold out in record time. Waitlists are now forming for both.

The workshop “Introduction to Retail Bookselling,” on Sunday, February 8, just prior to the opening of Winter Institute 2015, will provide new and prospective booksellers with a crash course in critical aspects of bookstore ownership and management.