ABFFE and Ingram have provided ordering instructions for Banned Books Week in a Box, a promotion that makes it as simple as possible for stores to participate in Banned Books Week, this September 22 – 28.

Last weekend, the Opinion Pages of the New York Times’ Sunday Review featured “Tumult in the Book World,” a dialogue in letters, including one from ABA President Steve Bercu, that were solicited by the paper to answer the question “Can traditional bookstores survive the digital marketplace?”

Four e-book promotions were recently added to the IndieCommerce Publisher Promotions page. Categories include thrillers, romance, titles by Philip Gulley, and works by left-handed authors.

Author Jamie Ford asks readers to support bricks-and-mortar bookstores; National Book Awards longlist to be announced September 12; Facebook algorithm change increases engagement; BISG releases study on teacher preferences for course materials

Beginning September 1, Amazon.com will begin complying with Georgia’s affiliate nexus law, which went into effect on January 1. Enforcement of the law is expected to add $16 million annually to the state’s coffers and create more than 50,000 jobs.

A new addition to the array of resources available to stores celebrating Banned Books Week (September 22 - 28) is a banned books list compiled by ABFFE that highlights a greater number of recent titles in addition to classics.

That’s the message of the Alliance for Main Street Fairness, which highlights three steps that small business owners and other local citizens can take during Congress’ August recess to encourage their U.S. representatives to support the Marketplace Fairness Act.

Since President Obama’s jobs speech at an Amazon warehouse on July 30, there has been an outpouring of disappointment from independent booksellers across the country about the president’s choice of venue.

Next Tuesday, August 20, is the deadline for ABA member bookstores to place their orders for this year’s ABC Best Books for Children Catalog. The full-color, 20-page consumer circular featuring close to 200 fully vetted frontlist and backlist titles is slated to be in stores in early October.

June retail sales at bookstores decreased by 9.5 percent compared to June 2012, according to preliminary figures recently released by the Bureau of the Census.