BTW News Briefs

Binc Grants Encourage Booksellers to Attend Regional Shows

The Book Industry Charitable Foundation (Binc) has made professional scholarships available to each of the nine regional booksellers associations, which are allocating the funds to help booksellers attend their fall regional shows and other educational events. Booksellers are encouraged to visit Binc’s booth at each trade show to learn more about the assistance it provides.

SIBA is using the funds to bring a bookseller to the regional show who may not otherwise be able to attend; NAIBA is giving two frontline booksellers a ticket packet to all of the regional show’s events; PNBA is raffling off its scholarship on the show’s final day, and the winning bookseller will have their expenses reimbursed; GLBA and MIBA are each offering a scholarship for a bookseller to attend their combined show; NEIBA is creating the “How to Manage a Bookselling Career” workshop in the spring and is raffling off a spot at the session; MPIBA is sponsoring a bookseller’s trip to its regional show; SCIBA added the grant to its Glenn Goldman Bookseller Scholarship fund; and NCIBA is helping booksellers with meals and accommodations.

Find Waldo Local to Be Featured on MSNBC’s Your Business

MSNBC’s Your Business will air a segment on Find Waldo Local this Sunday, September 21, at 7:30 a.m. ET.

On July 31, Eight Cousins bookstore in Falmouth, Massachusetts, hosted a film crew from the show as the store held its wrap party to celebrate the finale of its monthlong Find Waldo Local campaign. The crew talked with staff members from Eight Cousins, including owner Carol Chittenden, and other participating businesses in the town, as well as with Candlewick, the co-sponsor of Find Waldo Local along with ABA. A separate film crew also visited Octavia Books in New Orleans and spoke with co-owner Judith Lafitte.

After the segment airs, it will be available for viewing here.

SCIBA’s Goldman Scholarship Winners Announced

Two booksellers have been awarded the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association’s Glenn Goldman Bookseller Scholarships this year, which go to young booksellers who are dedicated to their careers in bookselling. One scholarship covers meals and parking at SCIBA’s fall trade show and the other will help a bookseller attend ABA’s Winter Institute in February 2015.

This year’s recipients are Dan Graham of Book Soup in West Hollywood, California, who has won the Winter Institute Scholarship, and Joe Holland of Warwick’s in La Jolla, who won the SCIBA Trade Show Scholarship.

Changes Made to Penguin Random House Sales Team

Penguin Random House’s president of sales, Jaci Updike, announced on Wednesday several changes to the company’s sales team:

Lauren Monaco has been named vice president, director of sales, Paperback and Berkley/NAL, Penguin Publishing Group. She was previously Penguin Random House’s vice president, director, digital business development.

Hank Cochrane is now vice president, director of sales development, Trade Paperback and Berkley/NAL.

Jeff Weber, previously of Random House’s online and digital sales efforts, is vice president, director, Online & Digital Sales, leading the newly unified Penguin Random House Adult Online & Digital Sales team.

Additionally, Kent Anderson has been promoted to director of Online & Digital Sales for Penguin Publishing Group; Michael Rotondo has been promoted to director of Online & Digital Sales for Random House Adult; and Tim McCall, who was vice president, director of Online Sales & Marketing for Penguin Group, will be leaving the company.