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25 Sep

International Podcast Day: Indie Bookstores With Podcasts

Monday, September 30, is International Podcast Day! Celebrate by listening to a bookish podcast from an indie bookstore!

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31 Jul

Black Business Month: Indie Publishers

For Black Business Month we're highlighting Black-owned indie publishers!

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19 Jun

Indie Bookstores Celebrate Juneteenth

This year for Juneteenth, indie bookstores put up displays, posted on social media, held events, and appeared at local celebrations. Here are how a few of our member stores celebrated Juneteenth. 

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08 May

Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month: Featured Stores

May is Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, so we’re highlighting our AAPI-owned member stores!
 
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01 Nov

National Native American Heritage Month: Featured Stores

November is National Native American Heritage Month, so we’re highlighting our Native-owned member stores!
 
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13 Sep

National Hispanic Heritage Month: Featured Stores

For National Hispanic Heritage Month we're highlighting our Hispanic-owned member stores.

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17 Aug

How Tubby & Coo’s Became a Traveling Book Shop

Tubby & Coo’s, a New Orleans queer-owned store, recently transitioned from a brick-and-mortar location to a traveling book shop. Owner Candice Huber told us more about the transition and their plans for the future.
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02 Aug

Black Business Month: Featured Stores

For Black Business Month we're highlighting our Black-owned member stores.

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21 Sep
A graphic celebrating National Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month

Bookstores Celebrate National Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month

In celebration of National Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month, independent bookstores are sharing book recommendations, showcasing displays, and hosting virtual events.

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29 Jun
Bookstores Celebrate Pride

Indie Bookstores Celebrate Pride

This June, indie bookstores took to social media to share reading lists, special events, and more in honor of Pride. 

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09 Dec

Tattered Cover Book Store Sold to Denver Investors

Denver natives Kwame Spearman and David Back, founding partners of Bended Page, LLC, lead a group of Colorado-based investors and national bookselling and publishing experts that purchased the 49-year-old business. 

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23 Jun
A display at R.J. Julia Booksellers

Indie Bookstores Celebrate Pride Online

From book lists and displays to virtual events and throwbacks to last year's Pride, here are some of the ways indie bookstores are celebrating this year.

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16 Jun

2020 PW Bookstore of the Year Honored

Porter Square Books in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was named Publishers Weekly’s 2020 Bookstore of the Year and recognized during the virtual ABA Annual Meeting and Town Hall on Thursday, June 11.

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20 May

Nominations Underway for Reader’s Digest’s “Nicest Places in America” Contest

For 2020, Readers Digest is inviting people to recognize those in their lives who have stood up against COVID-19 as part of Nicest Places in America 2020: United in Kindness.

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13 May
The sneeze guard at Main Street Books.

Booksellers Around the Country Show Off Their New Normal

Many bookstores are still in various states of closure to the general public, offering instead home delivery and curbside pickup, and others have reopened with social distancing measures in place.

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About ABA

American Booksellers Association is a national trade association that supports and advocates for the success of independent bookstores. We provide members with education, networking opportunities, advocacy, resources, and technology. In turn our members support local schools through book fairs, donations and author visits; promote literacy; provide inclusive community centers; connect readers and books; add character to neighborhoods; champion and center diverse and new voices; and contribute to the local economy. We feel honored to support them in their work.

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