New Monthly Box Mailing Schedule Underway

Beginning in 2025, the American Booksellers Association’s Bi-Monthly Box mailing schedule will proceed quarterly, with the first box (winter) of the year arriving in January 2025. Subsequent boxes will arrive in March 2025 (spring), July 2025 (summer), and September 2025 (fall). 

Bookstores are eligible to receive the box mailings based on participation in certain ABA activities. Points are awarded for making nominations to the Indie Next List and reporting to the Indie Bestseller List. The point system is weighted to ensure that smaller stores with fewer staff have an equal chance of receiving a box as larger stores.

As always, the boxes contain publisher-sponsored ARCs and galleys as well as the month’s Indie Next List fliers. The Indie Next List fliers will continue to be sent in the intervening months when no box is mailed.

In addition to the print list, booksellers can access the monthly lists in digital format on BookWeb, in Bookselling This Week the first week of the preceding month, and on Edelweiss.

No changes have been made to the quarterly kids’ box mailings.

Questions can be directed to Director of Development and Publisher Relations Matt Zoni.