The Nominating Committee, chaired by Valerie Koehler of Blue Willow Bookshop in Houston, Texas, begins its search today for qualified candidates to serve on the ABA Board of Directors. Any ABA member may submit nominations for Board directors.
Booksellers participating in Baker & Taylor’s Indie Next Promotion in a Box report it’s been a great time-saver that drives sales of Indie Next and Now in Paperback titles each month.
Amazon has fired all its online affiliates in Missouri to avoid the requirement to collect and remit sales tax to the state. Missouri passed an affiliate nexus law in July.
Three e-book promotions were recently added to the IndieCommerce Publisher Promotions page. Categories include back to school and history, as well as titles from a variety of authors.
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Hachette Book Group is hosting its second annual Reading Group Day on September 7 in partnership with ReadingGroupGuides.com and McNally Jackson Books. Readers will be welcomed to a full day of author panels, speeches, and events.
Porter Square Books in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been purchased by longtime customers and local residents Dina Mardell and David Sandberg. The couple, who are new to the book business, will be helped for the next several months by most of the store’s former owners.
A fundraiser on September 19 at the SIBA trade show to benefit the Book Industry Charitable Foundation will feature former drummer for The Doors, John Densmore.
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