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

Based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending March 8, 2015.

Bookseller Carrie Rollwagen of Church Street Coffee & Books in Birmingham, Alabama, turned her blog chronicling one year of shopping exclusively at locally owned businesses into a new book, The Localist: Think Independent, Buy Local and Reclaim the American Dream.

Erik Larson discusses his highly anticipated new book, Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, his extensive research process, and what fascinated him about the 100-year-old story. 

Andrew Solomon elected president of PEN American Center board; Delegation from China to attend BookExpo America; PEN/Faulkner Award finalists announced; Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist revealed; HarperCollins launches Spanish-language imprints with Harper Lee novels; NACS CEO Brian E. Cartier to retire; Consortium to distribute Third Man Books

Based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending March 1, 2015.

The staff at Between the Covers in Harbor Springs, Michigan, celebrated the success of one of their own last week at an in-store launch party for bookseller Alison DeCamp’s new middle grade novel My Near-Death Adventures (99% True!).

Booksellers have named Ian Caldwell’s The Fifth Gospel, a book that has been in the works for more than a decade, as their top Indie Next List pick for March. Here, Caldwell talks about his many years of research, his aim to provide readers with an unprecedented level of realism, and more.

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

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

Here are the titles on the April Indie Next List flier, on its way to ABA member stores in the IndieBound movement.

Based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending February 15, 2015.

Here are the top 10 children’s titles for the spring publishing season and an additional 35 titles organized by age group, based on recommendations from booksellers at independent bookstores across the country.

To Kill a Mockingbird author to release second book; Government censorship may shutter independent Belarus bookstore; Anne Enright named first Laureate for Irish Fiction; Penguin inks sales/distribution deal with America’s Test Kitchen; BISG, ALA to survey library patrons’ digital preferences; Random House’s independent bookstore liaison expands duties to Penguin; Simon & Schuster introduces new multimedia imprint