Industry News

The Nominating Committee, chaired by Robert Sindelar of Third Place Books, opens its search today for qualified candidates to serve on the ABA Board of Directors. Any member may submit nominations for Board directors.

Urban Expositions invites ABA member booksellers to discover a wide array of non-book merchandise at this fall’s regional gift shows. Booksellers will receive complimentary admission and discounted parking at the events.

Event registration and hotel reservations for ABA’s 10th Annual Winter Institute are scheduled to open in Bookselling This Week on Thursday, September 18. Wi10 will be held from February 8 – 11, 2015, at the Grove Park Inn in Asheville, North Carolina.

Between September 26 and October 2, ABA will be at the trade shows of the Pacific Northwest and New England independent booksellers associations, and the Heartland Fall Forum, a combined show of the Great Lakes and Midwest regional associations.

Betty Bruce Morrissette Fairchild, former vice president, field director for Random House Adult, died on August 27, at age 67.

The Magic Tree Bookstore was recently honored with a proclamation from Oak Park, Illinois, which recognized the 30-year-old indie for its service to the community and for introducing children to a lifelong love of reading.

The Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance is looking for hosts for SHOP (the Southern Hospitality Overnight Program), an effort to provide travel alternatives for booksellers from other parts of the country who are planning to attend the 2015 Winter Institute in Asheville, North Carolina.

Kickstarter campaign underway for new bookstore in D.C.; Giovanni’s Room to reopen in September; The Bookworm plans to relocate; Laurel Book Store to move to downtown Oakland

Mitch Kaplan to announce National Book Award finalists on NPR; Winners of the American Poets Prizes revealed; Corporate communications changes announced at Penguin Random House; Ingram adds two distribution clients

Five e-book promotions were recently added to the IndieCommerce Publisher Promotions page. Categories include literary fiction, young adult, cooking and entertaining, and garden maintenance. 

Copperfield’s Books’ Napa branch and Napa Bookmine are on the mend after a magnitude 6.0 earthquake rocked both stores and sent hundreds of books tumbling to their floors. 

Presented here by category are the more than 200 titles featured in this year’s ABC Best Books for Children Catalog.

A special promotion underway through September 30 allows used bookstores to join ABA for just $100, half the regular used bookstore rate. The discounted membership term extends until January 31, 2016.

The September Indie Next List’s 12 “Now in Paperback” titles are featured with bookseller quotes on a downloadable flier and shelf-talkers.

BookPeople’s first National Bookstore Day for the BookPeople Nation celebrated the local spirit of Austin, Texas, during one of the store’s quieter sales seasons. “We got terrific local press,” said co-owner Steve Bercu, and “we were the number-one pick in the daily paper for what to do over the weekend.”