The "under-fortyish" community of booksellers and publishers got another taste of IndieBound this week at an event organized by Emerging Leaders NYC.

Booksellers from New York-area bookstores, including McNally Jackson, Book Culture, Logos Bookstore, Moravian Bookshop, and the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, met at Flatbush Farm, an independent and locally-focused restaurant in Brooklyn. Several ABA staff members joined the Emerging Leaders to share the latest IndieBound news.

Since July, American Booksellers Association staff have been visiting locations around the country to answer questions, share ideas, and help position bookstores to take advantage of IndieBound and all that it has to offer. One such ABA staff member is IndieBound Outreach Liaison Paige Poe, who has traveled from Cleveland, Ohio, to Elizabeth City, North Carolina -- and points in-between -- to spread the word to booksellers about the IndieBound Movement.

The first Children's Indie Next List is now available for preview. The new list showcases not only a wide range of exemplary titles for young readers, as chosen by indie booksellers, but also a new, redesigned format.

Readers looking to connect with authors can now find events at indie bookstores participating in ABA's E-Commerce Solution on BookTour, the website founded by Chris Anderson, Kevin Smokler, and Adam Goldstein.

Creating affiliate relationships with authors, publishers, bloggers, and others is now easier than ever.

Independent business owner Kimber Lanning knew Phoenix was in need of a local business alliance, so she stepped up and created one. "That's just my personality," she said. "I'm always the person who stands up and says, 'Yes, I'll do that.'" Local First Arizona (LFA), a statewide organization, now has 1,380 members.

1. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean (illus.)
(HarperCollins, $17.99, 9780060530921 / 0060530928)

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

For the eight-week period ending August 5, 2008, and based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide.