This week, Black Dog & Leventhal announced the winners of its “Why My Bookstore Matters” Winter Institute scholarship contest, launched in September in celebration of this month’s publication of “My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop.”

Here is BTW’s annual holiday preparations checklist. We hope you’ll find something to help make the season go a little smoother for you, your staff, and your customers.

Beginning January 1, 2013, Penguin Group USA will be offering independent bricks-and-mortar full-service bookstores a unique partnership opportunity to increase sales and profits and reduce returns for both frontlist and backlist titles.

For the second straight year, Random House is offering indie booksellers a two-day transit program for the holiday season on its entire frontlist and backlist across all imprints and formats.

This op-ed column by Chris Finan, president of the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, and Joan Bertin, executive director of the National Coalition Against Censorship, appeared in the September 23 edition of Louisville, Kentucky’s The Courier-Journal.

With last week’s federal court order entering as final judgment the Department of Justice’s e-book pricing settlement with Hachette, HarperCollins, and Simon & Schuster, the three publishers are working on agreements to replace the agency model for e-books.

In celebration of the forthcoming My Bookstore, a collection of essays by some of America’s favorite writers, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers is offering booksellers the chance to win one of three $2,500 scholarships to Winter Institute 8.

In his bimonthly letter to members, ABA CEO Oren Teicher notes this afternoon’s breaking developments in the DOJ e-book pricing case and shares news of two arrangements that will benefit ABA members.

All ABA bookstore members in good standing are entitled to four free two-week Classified Ad insertions in Bookselling This Week each year.

ABA President Becky Anderson encourages members to take part in several of the association’s important initiatives, and by doing so help make all indies stronger.