Industry News

BookExpo has announced the titles to be featured at this year’s adult, YA, and middle grade Editors’ Buzz panels.

After the 2016 election, Little Shop of Stories created the store's first-ever Year of Kindness project, which uses monthly themed book clubs and events to help kids and parents explore ideas of community and compassion.

National Book Award submissions open, booksellers on judges panel; HarperCollins turns 200; Paz & Associates introduces online management training; PEN/Faulkner finalists, Baileys Prize longlist announced

IndieLite, the new e-commerce platform under development by ABA, will be a solution for bookstores that are just getting started in e-commerce or those that want a website requiring very little time and effort to maintain.

The Winter Institute 12 education session “Finance — Securing Capital” explored the different ways booksellers can secure financing for their business needs.

Before returning home from Winter Institute 12, New Zealanders Courtney Smith and Rochelle Handley worked for a week at a California indie.

Three booksellers have been named the winners of the 2017 International Book Fair Scholarship for U.S. Booksellers, sponsored by Europa Editions and Other Press.

BookExpo recently launched a new blog and is seeking content that highlights how booksellers use the trade show to discover new titles, engage with publishers and peers, and learn best practices.

Indie bookstores can offer their customers a monthly audiobook subscription through Libro.fm. Customers can try their first audiobook for $0.99 and pay $14.99 each month thereafter.

Kids First, a special promotion from Baker & Taylor, will offer a special discount on all children’s and young adult trade books for two weeks following the April 5–7 Children’s Institute.

Marley Dias, the 12-year-old social activist who launched the #1000BlackGirlBooks campaign, and Ilsa Govan, the founder of Cultures Connecting, have been added to the Children’s Institute lineup.

Transfer of Perseus Books distribution completed; PRH to publish Obamas; WNDB internship application opens; Hummingbird offers new discount program; Study finds post-millennials prefer physical stores; Amazon opens East Coast store; #FreeWordsTurkey petition presented to German government; LA Times Book Prize finalists announced 

Danny Givens, owner of Givens Books-Little Dickens in Lynchburg, Virginia, has created a series of buy local-themed commercials for WABC, a local television station.

Noelle Santos’s Indiegogo campaign has surpassed its $100,000 fundraising goal to open The Lit. Bar, a bookstore/wine bar in the South Bronx.

Canada’s Coach House Books publishes innovative literary fiction, poetry, film and drama, works in translation, and select nonfiction, including a series of books about Toronto.