Industry News

On November 28, locally owned businesses across the country will offer visitors free cider during the fourth annual celebration of Cider Monday, the bricks-and-mortar response to Cyber Monday.

Members of the American Specialty Toy Retailing Association, including several bookstores that sell toys, celebrated Neighborhood Toy Store Day on Saturday, November 12.

Booksellers can win $50 off their membership dues and a full day of dedicated posts on ABA’s social media pages by submitting original social content for BookWeb’s new “Stories to Share” section.

The ABC Children’s Group and the Children’s Book Council are partnering on a joint program at BookExpo featuring the Silent Art Auction and the Children’s and Teen Choice Book Awards Announcement.

Retail sales at bookstores were up by 1.7 percent in September 2016 compared to September 2015, according to preliminary figures recently released by the Bureau of the Census.

Booksellers can place their orders now for official 2017 Independent Bookstore Day tote bags and T-shirts featuring an illustration by Lisa Brown.

Booksellers at stores that did not have an ABC Children’s Institute scholarship winner in 2015 or 2016 can apply now for a publisher-sponsored scholarship to the 2017 Children’s Institute.

Brad Johnson, the manager of the Oakland branch of DIESEL, A Bookstore has launched a community lender program to help finance his purchase of the store from Alison Reid and John Evans.

Booksellers who enter ABA’s “Stories to Share” Social Media contest will have a chance to win $50 off their 2017–2018 membership dues plus a full day of dedicated posts on ABA’s social media accounts.

Simon & Schuster enters distribution agreement with Ubisoft; AAUP prepares for University Press Week; National Book Awards to stream live on November 16; Madeleine Thien wins Scotiabank Giller Prize

The American Booksellers Association and Libro.fm have announced a partnership that enables the convenient purchase of digital audiobooks through independent bookstores.

New Yorker cartoonist Bob Eckstein, author of Footnotes From the World’s Greatest Bookstores, will be featured on a Miami Book Fair panel about the cultural importance of independent bookstores.

Stores are once again receiving telephone orders for a large number of textbooks that are being placed using stolen credit cards.

Pat Conroy Literary Center names Jonathan Haupt as first executive director; Amazon’s non-prime members pay more for books; 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards longlist announced; Marilyn Nelson named winner of NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature

Inquiring Minds Bookstore has won its fight with town officials who attempted to force the bookstore to remove from its front window an anti-Trump banner that includes a swastika.