Industry News

As customers enjoy treats and prizes at parties concluding July’s celebration of Find Waldo Local, MSNBC’s Your Business is visiting two indie bookstores to report on the buy local spirit fostered by the event.

Sen. Patrick Leahy has introduced legislation that is a much stronger version of the U.S.A. Freedom Act, passed by the U.S. House of Representatives in May.

MLRC Institute, the sister organization of the Media Law Resource Center, will be working with ABFFE to provide speakers for bookstores that are interested in hosting a program about censorship during Banned Books Week (September 21 – 27, 2014).

In the midst of the ongoing dispute between Amazon and Hachette Book Group, Stephen Colbert’s call for his fans to buy Edan Lepucki’s California at independent bookstores has landed the title on both the New York Times and National Indie Bestseller lists.

Left Bank anniversary commemorated; Brooklyn indies curate Readings Beneath the Bridge; St. Mark’s reopens in East Village; Creekside reopens with new owners; Black Bear moves to mall kiosk

Tim Godfray, CEO of the Booksellers Association of the United Kingdom and Ireland, visited ABA’s office this week and sat down with BTW to discuss independent bookselling in the U.K., its current challenges, and its most successful promotions. 

Five e-book promotions were recently added to the IndieCommerce Publisher Promotions page. Categories include cooking, gardening, back to school, summer entertaining, and animals.

HarperCollins in e-book bundling pilot program; S&S to sell, distribute Regan Arts; MIBA and GLIBA to honor Kate DiCamillo; Book Industry Charitable Foundation reveals survey results; John Green’s Looking for Alaska challenged; 2014 Man Booker longlist announced

Starting August 4, Ingram will no longer be responsible for affiliating Kobo devices with member stores. Instead, ABA has developed a simple procedure within the Kobo Reporting Tool that will allow stores to manually affiliate devices.

Don’t miss out on the opportunity to receive a customized report analyzing your store’s financial results as well as a chance to win the Avin Mark Domnitz Scholarship to Winter Institute 10: Submit your business’ 2013 financial data to the ABACUS-13 survey by next Thursday, July 31.

Every bookseller at an ABA member store is eligible to receive the free Digital White Box from NetGalley. The monthly e-mail provides free access to digital galleys of upcoming print books from an array of publishers.

The Bookstore Training Group of Paz & Associates is offering the workshop retreat “Owning a Bookstore: The Business Essentials,” from September 15-19 on Amelia Island (near Jacksonville, Florida).

ABA will again award the Avin Mark Domnitz Scholarship to attend the ABA Winter Institute to the owner or an employee of a bookstore that submits its financial data to the ABACUS Survey. The deadline for submissions to ABACUS-13 is July 31.

On Thursday, July 17, in a letter sent to every member of the U.S. Senate, Advocates for Independent Business urged congressional support for the Marketplace and Internet Tax Fairness Act, which was introduced in the Senate on Tuesday, July 15.

Last week, the EU Commission launched a preliminary investigation of the German Publishers and Booksellers Association’s antitrust complaint against Amazon, and France’s “Anti-Amazon” law went into effect.