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All ABA member booksellers at BEA are invited to two evening celebrations at Hotel ABA, the Grand Hyatt New York.

Awards season in full swing; News Corp. to purchase Harlequin; New address for HarperCollins; BookCon signs on Veronica Roth; BEA staff celebrate reading in new video

All ABA member booksellers at BookExpo America are invited to the Algonquin Buzzed Panel on Wednesday evening, May 28, at the Grand Hyatt New York’s Gallery on Lex.  The top-shelf evening will feature a whiskey tasting, hand-crafted beers, intoxicating appearances by Algonquin’s barrel-aged authors, and an off-kilter trivia contest.

ABA president talks U.S. indies at London Book Fair; ABFFE’s Chris Finan wins Hefner award; Top 10 most frequently challenged books revealed; Pulitzer Prize winners announced; Los Angeles Times Book Prizes awarded; McNamee steps down as president of EBF; University presses look to Ingram’s CoreSource 

Penguin Random House is inviting all ABA member booksellers attending BEA 2014 to Hotel ABA, the Grand Hyatt New York, on Tuesday evening, May 27, for informal nightcaps.

Booksellers named National Book Awards judges; Michael Tamblyn appointed Kobo president; BEA Global Market Forum speakers announced; NCIBA Book of the Year winners, Christopher Award winners, NYPL Young Lions Awards finalists unveiled; Ingram adds two clients

New York Times readers debate the future of bookstores; E-book settlement funds reach consumers; Gabrielle Zevin to discuss The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry on All Things Considered; Hans Christian Andersen Awards announced; Bookmasters signs with Wybel Marketing Group; Independent Publishers Group adds 16 clients

Go Local, Grow Local 2014 early registration discount ends March 31; NCIBA holding logo contest; Roxana Robinson elected president of the Authors Guild; Academy of American Poets launches Poet-to-Poet project; National Book Critics Circle names award winners; Penguin Random House to acquire Santillana Ediciones Generales; Consortium adds three presses

To help booksellers meet the demand that World Book Night publicity will bring, Ingram is offering stores an extra two percent discount on this year’s featured titles.

Independent booksellers will soon be able to sell and buy back used higher education textbooks through Ingram Content Group’s expanded textbook program.

Booksellers look for answers from L.A. Times Festival of Books; Small Business Majority offers free media training; Supreme Court to hear workers’ case against Amazon; Linda Matthews retires from Chicago Review Press; Sylvan Dell becomes Arbordale Publishing; PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction finalists revealed; Lambda Literary Award finalists announced; Children’s Africana Book Award winners chosen

Ezra Jack Keats children’s book awards announced; Michael Carley to leave Simon & Schuster

BEA author breakfast emcees announced; World Read Aloud Day to be celebrated March 5; Study shows changes in use of college course materials; Chronicle to distribute Twirl Books; Image recognition feature added to Amazon app

Penguin Random House to consolidate warehouse facilities; BookExpo America to host China in 2015; Simon & Schuster launches all-publisher business book site 250 Words

The new Digital White Box Program, announced by NetGalley and ABA in January, launches on February 14 and will include pre-authorized links to download digital galleys of new titles.