Specialty Bookselling

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Steerforth Press, which launched its first list in 1994, has established a reputation for quality fiction and nonfiction. Through its distribution services arm, Hanover Publisher Services, it provides sales and marketing support to several small publishers as well as distribution through PRHPS.

Based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending September 20, 2015.

At Wednesday’s Nielsen Children’s Book Summit, publishers, booksellers, and readers gathered to discuss industry trends and insights. Among the event’s panels was one featuring indie booksellers, which focused on the importance of bricks-and-mortar retailing to the children’s book market.

Rediscovered Bookshop celebrates grand reopening following remodel; Books & Books offers expanded Spanish language programming; Morris Book Shop’s new event series wines and dines readers; BookPeople of Moscow fundraises to improve events

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

Booksellers now have until next Thursday, September 10, to place their orders for additional copies of the 2015 ABC Best Books for Young Readers Catalog.

Stephanie Tromly is the author of Trouble Is a Friend of Mine, a Summer/Fall 2015 Indies Introduce title for middle grade readers and a top Summer 2015 Kids’ Indie Next List pick. “This is what a YA book should be — smart, funny, and surprising. A terrific read!” said Margaret Neville of The King’s English.

Here, by category, are the more than 200 titles featured in the 2015 ABC Best Books for Young Readers Catalog. The deadline for catalog orders is this Tuesday, September 1.

Tamara Ellis Smith is the author of Another Kind of Hurricane, a Summer/Fall 2015 Indies Introduce title for middle-grade readers that follows two very different characters, Zavion and Henry, as each recovers from a terrible tragedy.

Based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending August 16, 2015.

ABA member stores have less than two weeks left to place their orders for this year’s ABC Best Books for Young Readers Catalog. The 20-page, full-color consumer catalog will feature more than 200 frontlist and backlist titles for children and teens.

Here is a look at the 51 titles on the Autumn 2015 Kids’ Indie Next List flier, arriving at stores in the upcoming Children’s White Box.

ABA’s fourth ABC Children’s Institute will be held June 21–23, 2016, at the Wyndham Orlando Resort International in Orlando, Florida, immediately preceding the American Library Association’s Annual Conference.

Orders for this year’s 20-page, full-color ABC Best Books for Young Readers Catalog are being accepted through September 1 via a form on BookWeb.org.