Specialty Bookselling

Award winners announced at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Boston include the recipients of the 2016 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction and the youth media awards, including the Newbery and Caldecott medals and the Coretta Scott King Awards, among many others.

Based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending December 27, 2015.

Based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending December 6, 2015.

Coffee House Press, an independent publishing house and nonprofit organization based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, focuses on supporting innovation, celebrating the book and book arts, and representing the true diversity of American voices.

Newbery Award-winning author and literacy advocate Kwame Alexander will deliver the Tuesday breakfast keynote “The Idea Business: A Life Spent Writing and Selling Books” at Winter Institute 2016. Alexander talks here about his writing career, literacy action projects, and more.

Based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending November 29, 2015.

This holiday season, booksellers in New England and Northern California are participating in hand-selling initiatives to show the power of independent booksellers to influence the sales and success of diverse books for young readers.

This holiday season, We Need Diverse Books is challenging booksellers to shine the spotlight on Margarita Engle’s Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl’s Courage Changed Music, an initiative to effect change through the power of the hand-sell.

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

Here are the titles, along with bookseller quotes, featured on the Winter 2015–2016 Kids’ Indie Next List flier, arriving at stores in the upcoming Children’s White Box.

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

Based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending October 18, 2015.

Los Angeles to welcome The Ripped Bodice in 2016; Upshur Street Books to celebrate first year in business; Oblong Millerton turns 40; Octavia Books marks 15 years; Maine Coast Book Shop acquired by Sherman’s; Star Wars Reads Day a hit at Phoenix Books; Vroman’s announces fall Young Readers League pick

McNally Jackson to open new location in 2017; Kepler’s offering GiftLit book subscriptions; Spellbound becomes party central; Scuppernong gets the Banned Books Week blues

Resources are now available to help booksellers promote the titles in the 2015 ABC Best Books for Young Readers Catalog, which is scheduled to begin arriving in stores next week.