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Customizable Counter Card Promotes IndieBound.org Wish List to Customers

Last week, IndieBound.org introduced a new Wish List feature that allows members of the Indie Community to build a list of books and e-mail it to friends and family, along with a list of their favorite bookstores. Now, there's a new flier in the Bookseller DIY to help stores promote the Wish List to their customers. The 8-1/2" x 11" design can be used as a counter card, a handout at the store cash wrap, or as a bag stuffer.

Correction

The author's name was incorrectly printed in the December Indie Next List flier for Blindspot: A Novel, by Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore (Spiegel & Grau). The online version of the December Indie Next List is correct. IndieBound apologizes for this error.

The Winter '08 /'09 Children's Indie Next List

1. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
(Scholastic, $17.99, 9780439023481 / 0439023483)

IndieBound.org Debuts Book Wish Lists, Book Search

Just in time for the holiday retail season, IndieBound.org has introduced a new Wish List feature for members of the Indie Community. This feature allows anyone to build a list of books and e-mail it to friends and family, along with a list of their favorite bookstores.

The December 2008 Indie Next List & Notables Preview

Here's a preview of the December Indie Next List now on its way to ABA member stores in the IndieBound movement.

ChicoBag Offers Special Discount on Custom Bags

Each customer who walks out of your bookstore with a single-use paper or plastic bag costs you money. Instead, why not offer customers an environmentally friendly bag that will result in a profit, as well as provide additional marketing exposure for your store?

Peace. Love. Books. Bags to Arrive Soon

ABA member stores that have placed orders for IndieBound reusable bags bearing the movement's popular "Peace. Love. Books." slogan should be receiving them soon. W.G. Ellerkamp Inc., the bag's supplier, expects to begin shipping the tote to stores sometime next week.

The Indie Politics & Current Events Bestsellers List

For the eight-week period ending November 4, 2008, and based on sales in independent bookstores nationwide.

1.

Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution -- And How It Can Renew America
Thomas L. Friedman, FSG, $27.95, 9780374166854

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November Indie Next List Notables Fliers & Shelf-Talkers Ready for Download

Each month, the Indie Next List Notables flier offers a great selection of titles from indie booksellers nationwide that complement the month's Indie Next List selections in both window and in-store displays. The flier is available at BookWeb.org in PDF format and features jacket images, bibliographic information, and bookseller quotes.

Ring in the Season With Holiday IndieBound

Nurturing community and emphasizing the long-lasting value of the book are the heart of the new IndieBound holiday marketing materials, launched last week in the Bookseller DIY.

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