NCIBA Executive Director Hut Landon invites booksellers and their customers to subscribe to “Hut’s Place: Weekly Words About Books,” a free e-mail column that highlights newly released titles available in independent bookstores nationwide.

Baker & Taylor in strategic partnership with Bookmasters; Colin Bettam named chief marketing officer at Kobo; National Book Foundation elects new board members; Leadership changes at Barnes & Noble; Amazon launches Jet City Comics imprint; SIBA and MIBA award winners announced

Utah celebrates Independents Week in a big way; Buthod named SIBA One Book at a Time organizer; Amazon’s tax affairs in U.K. deterring shoppers; LibraryReads launches this fall; Senators express concerns over Patriot Act surveillance programs; Authors lose class certification in lawsuit against Google; Hachette acquires Hyperion adult imprint; Ingram integrates Hachette Livre titles

ABA will be offering an IndieCommerce Institute on September 18 and 19, just prior to the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance Fall Show in New Orleans, and on October 1 and 2, before the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association Trade Show in San Francisco.

Tattered Cover Book Store, Boulder Book Store, ABFFE, MPIBA, and several newsstands filed suit on Monday to block enforcement of a Colorado law that violates the First Amendment rights of retailers to display magazines that focus on marijuana and of customers to browse those publications.

The American Booksellers Association will be hosting one-day IndieCommerce Institutes in conjunction with two of this fall’s regional trade shows.

ABA member booksellers and non-members alike are invited to join ABA CEO Oren Teicher, Senior Program Officer Joy Dallanegra-Sanger, Content Officer Dan Cullen, and Member Relationship Manager Kaitlin Pitcher at [words] bookstore in Maplewood, New Jersey, next Wednesday, May 8, for an education session and an open forum discussion.

ABA bookseller members and non-members alike are invited to a Spring Forum to be held in conjunction with the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance on Tuesday, April 30, at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
 

This season’s schedule of 11 ABA Booksellers Forums will come to an end on Wednesday, May 8, in Maplewood, New Jersey.

Bloomsbury moving to new offices; MPIBA Reading the West Shortlist unveiled; uPublishU at BEA details announced