Orders Being Accepted for ABC Best Books Catalog

ABA member bookstores have until August 20 to place their orders for this year’s ABC Best Books for Children Catalog. Members of the ABC Children’s Group at ABA (ABC Group) will automatically receive 250 free catalogs with no imprinting; all other ABA member stores will automatically receive 20 free catalogs with no imprinting. An online order form is available on BookWeb.org for purchasing up to 5,000 additional catalogs, either imprinted or plain.

Additional catalogs are available in units of 500 copies. The cost for each additional 500-unit is $25 for ABC Group members and $35 for non-members, shipping included. The plate cost for imprinting, if desired, is $75 for ABC Group members and $125 for non-members.  (Full details are available on the order form.)

For orders greater than 5,000 copies, stores should contact ABC Group Manager Shannon O’Connor via e-mail or at (800) 637-0037, ext. 7551. ABA members interested in joining the ABC Group should contact Member Relationship Manager Catherine Cusick via e-mail or at (800) 637-0037, ext. 7566.

The full-color, 20-page consumer circular featuring around 200 fully vetted frontlist and backlist titles is slated to be in stores in early October. The catalog carries no fourth quarter branding so booksellers can use it throughout the year. The catalog cover, which was chosen by the ABC Advisory Council, features an illustration from Tracey Campbell Pearson’s Elephant’s Story, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers, a division of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group.