The October Indie Next List Notables flier, in PDF format, features jacket images, bibliographic information, and bookseller quotes for a great selection of titles to complement the month's Indie Next List selections. Bookseller quotes are also currently available in an electronic file of Notables shelf-talkers.

This Friday is the nomination deadline for the December Indie Next List.

And now is a great time to nominate. ABA has announced the "Tell-a-Bookseller-Friend" Indie Next List Nomination Challenge, in which booksellers can win an ABA gift card worth $150.

Booksellers who have nominated titles to the Indie Next Lists in the past are being enlisted to help bring new voices to the chorus of those contributing recommendations to future lists. The "Tell-a-Bookseller-Friend" Indie Next List Nomination Challenge encourages past contributors to tell bookseller friends who have never nominated a title to the lists just how easy it is to do.

The Indie Next List for Reading Groups for Fall '08/Winter '09 will be arriving in bookstores in the IndieBound movement in the October Red Box mailing; however, the full list, with bookseller quotes, can be previewed online now.

IndieBound is a movement that's dynamic, adaptable, and growing, and so, too, are its online resources.

There will be three opportunities for booksellers to help create Indie Next Lists in October:

The American Booksellers Association has announced a new initiative to help booksellers encourage their colleagues to nominate titles for the Indie Next List -- and become eligible to win an ABA gift card in the process.

For the eight-week period ending September 23, 2008, and based on sales at independent stores nationwide.

1. Away: A Novel by Amy Bloom
(Random House Trade Paperbacks, $14, 9780812977790 / 0812977793)
"Lillian Leyb arrives in New York's Lower East Side in 1924. What she finds is not for her. Her tenacity and insatiable thirst for life and answers lead her to the Alaskan frontier. Lillian's strength and passion are an inspiration and an invitation to ask yourself, 'What would I have done?'" --Andrea Avantaggio, Maria's Bookshop, Durango, CO

The new "IndieBound Community," which began its successful beta test last month, officially launched today.