Final Chance: Halloween Deadline for Indies First Special Offers, Indies Introduce Sign-up

Friday, October 31, is the last day for ABA member stores to take advantage of great offers from publishers participating in this year’s Indies First promotion, as well as the final day to sign up for the Indies Introduce program for Winter/Spring 2015.

• Indies First: Full information on Indies First publisher offers on a wide array of frontlist and backlist titles is available here. (A BookWeb username and password are required.)
  Stock up now for the holidays and for Indies First celebrations on Small Business Saturday. Don’t miss out: Offers end at midnight tomorrow.

  Learn more about Indies First, including Small Business Saturday activities and Upstream partnerships, here. And remember to add any planned events to the Indies First publicity map and to share news, events, and photos on social media.

• Indies Introduce: ABA member stores that are new to the Indies Introduce Debut Authors and New Voices promotions must sign up by midnight, Friday, October 31, to be eligible for special terms on 10 adult and 10 children’s debuts (fiction and nonfiction, middle grade and YA) publishing in Winter/Spring 2015. To see the full list of titles, publishers’ terms, and booksellers’ recommendations and to sign up, click here. (A BookWeb username and password are required.)

  The list of participating stores will be shared with publishers on November 3. Stores that participated in past Indies Introduce promotions are automatically included in the Winter/Spring 2015 promotion and do not need to sign up.