Specialty Bookselling

Based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending September 11, 2016.

Billie Swift, the new owner of Open Books: A Poem Emporium in Seattle, Washington, officially reopened the poetry-only store with a festive party on Saturday, September 17.

To show appreciation for indie booksellers’ support of University of Texas Press’ titles this year, assistant director and sales manager Gianna LaMorte spent nine days on the road visiting 30 indie bookstores along the West Coast.

The order deadline for the 2016 ABC Best Books for Young Readers catalog is this Friday, September 9. The full-color, 20-page consumer circular will feature more than 200 frontlist and backlist titles for children and teens.

Josh Niesse and Megan Bell, the owners of Underground Books, a used, rare, and antiquarian bookstore, will open Hills & Hamlets Bookshop next month in the urbanist green living community of Serenbe, in Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia. The new store’s inventory will be predominantly new books.

Based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending September 4, 2016.

The American Booksellers Association today revealed the dates and location for its fifth ABC Children’s Institute.

Here are the 230 titles featured in the 2016 ABC Best Books for Young Readers catalog. The deadline for catalog orders has been extended until September 9.

The order deadline for the 2016 ABC Best Books for Young Readers catalog is August 31. The full-color, 20-page consumer circular will feature more than 200 frontlist and backlist titles for children and teens.

Based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending August 14, 2016.

Orders for this year’s ABC Best Books for Young Readers Catalog are being accepted through August 31. The full-color, 20-page consumer circular is slated to be in stores in early October.

The Autumn Kids’ Indie Next List features booksellers’ top 10 children’s picks for the fall publishing season, 33 additional titles organized by age group, plus nine Revisit & Rediscover favorites.

ABA member stores can place their orders for this year’s ABC Best Books for Young Readers Catalog from now until August 31 via an order form on BookWeb.org.

Revolution Books, a not-for-profit bookstore in New York City, aims to enhance programming and add to the store’s book collection through a crowdfunding campaign, which ends August 10.

Based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending July 31, 2016.