Industry News

Starting August 20, booksellers can view a list of more than 450 banned and challenged titles via Ingram’s ipage®. Orders of 30 or more books per store entitle purchasers to a “Banned Books Week in a Box” display kit and additional discounts on initial and subsequent orders.

Midnight tomorrow, Friday, August 15, is the deadline for ABA member stores to submit their financial data to the ABACUS-13 Survey.

The HarperCollins Promotional Fund makes additional marketing dollars available to independent retailers for the company’s 2015 fiscal year, which began July 1, 2014.

One e-book promotion was recently added to the IndieCommerce Publisher Promotions page in the category of back-to-school reads.

ABA member bookstores still have time to submit their stores’ financial data to ABACUS-13 and apply for the Avin Mark Domnitz Scholarship to Winter Institute 10. The deadline for submissions is midnight Eastern Time on Friday, August 15.

Malcolm Brooks, author of Painted Horses, recently spoke to BTW about what inspired his interest in history and archaeology, how he views the struggle of sacred spaces versus human progress, and how his interests came together in vivid detail in his debut novel.

Print book production numbers slowed in ’13; NEIBA, NAIBA announce rep award winners; Study shows trends in use of educational content among students, faculty; News Corp finalizes Harlequin acquisition; Simon & Schuster introduces video series; Straus, Nurnberg acquire Wallace Literary Agency

On July 29 and 30, retailers from across the country, including ABA President Steve Bercu, gathered in Washington, D.C., to participate in the National Retail Federation’s Retail Advocates Summit to advocate on a number of key policy issues. 

Bank Square Books will be opening a new two-level bookstore with a small café in Westerly, Rhode Island, as part of a joint project with area developers.

A TV commercial campaign developed for Prairie Books & Gifts in Hastings, Nebraska, has garnered a great response from customers and has won a regional Emmy for its music composition. 

ABA member stores can place their orders for this year’s ABC Best Books for Children Catalog from now until September 1 via an online order form on BookWeb.org.

The ABA Board of Directors worked on a range of issues during its summer meeting, held this month at the association’s headquarters in White Plains, New York.

ABA members now have until midnight Eastern Time on Friday, August 15, to submit their store financial data to the ABACUS-13 survey.

West Virginia collects $19 million in sales tax from online retailers; NAIBA seeks Independent Bookstore Day logo; Cape Henlopen school board does away with reading list; Macmillan expands public library e-lending pilot program

Four ABA members are opening branch stores within a few weeks of each other this summer: Carmichael’s Bookstore in Louisville, Kentucky; Village House of Books in Los Gatos, California; Green Apple Books in San Francisco; and Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver.