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2012 New Voices Program Expands

The 2012 New Voices program has grown to include a new spring marketing package to be released in time for summer reading. Featured middle grade and young adult titles were chosen by a committee of 12 ABC Group at ABA member booksellers.

New DIY Designs Celebrate Spring

To celebrate spring and help stores find a fresh, new promotional look, ABA’s Bookseller DIY sports 11 new designs for posters, web banners, and bookmarks that can be easily produced at local printers.

Ingram Offers Promotional Materials & Discount for World Book Night

Ingram is offering downloadable promotional materials that booksellers can use to build displays for next month’s celebration of World Book Night, as well as an extra discount on the 30 featured titles.

Celebrate National Poetry Month

The Academy of American Poets has several suggestions for booksellers to market, merchandise, and plan events for April’s national celebration of poetry.

Tech Talk: Pinterest for Online Window-Shopping and More

Several indie booksellers who have made Pinterest part of their social media marketing efforts have found it easy and fun to use and better than Twitter for connecting with customers.

Joseph-Beth’s Facebook Ads Cast a Broad Net

Joseph-Beth Booksellers, which has four locations in Kentucky and Ohio, has turned to paid advertising on Facebook as a way to promote its many events to a wide range of people with similar interests.

Algonquin’s “Lucky 7” Launches

On February 13, Algonquin kicked off “Lucky 7,” a monthly e-book promotion offering seven backlist titles in e-book format for seven days for $1.99 each. This month’s theme is “Author Crush.”

Abrams Promo Helps Indies Focus on the Art of Selling

The Art of Selling Books, a new promotion from Abrams that offers 90-days dating, free freight, and extra discounts on 20 curated assortments of front and backlist titles for adults and children, is getting an enthusiastic reception from indie booksellers around the country.

Shelf-Talker Highlights Indie Next List Deadlines

The newly updated Indie Next List nomination shelf-talker draws booksellers’ attention to submission deadlines for the next five months and is ideal for placement in a bookstore’s back room or wherever staff reading copies and ARCs are kept.

World Book Night Announces Titles, Opens Sign-Up for Book Givers

World Book Night U.S. has announced the 30 titles to be given away by 50,000 volunteer book lovers in its inaugural campaign to distribute one million free books across America on April 23, 2012. The registration process for those wishing to become volunteer book givers is open until February 1.

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