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Indigo Maiden is a brand that specializes in stickers and other gift items that deliver their radical values with humor and unique style. 

Bookselling This Week spoke with Indigo Maiden's founder, Heather MacMillan, to learn more about the company.

W.G. Ellerkamp is a family-owned retail packaging company that offers everything from custom printed bags, wrapping paper, boxes, and tissue paper. The company also carries designs created specifically for indie booksellers. 

Bookselling This Week spoke with Jack Ellerkamp of W.G. Ellerkamp to learn more.

Apply is a Brooklyn-based creative studio that makes extraordinary stickers designed to inspire the artist in each of us. Inspired by the museums, galleries, and gritty stickered streetscapes of their hometown, Apply Stickers lets everyone be their boldest, brightest self.

Bookselling This Week spoke with Apply Stickers CEO and co-founder Spencer Lazar to learn more.

Wolf & Wren Press specializes in thoughtfully designed, high-quality letterpress and digitally printed goods that blend timeless charm with a modern touch. Their collection includes greeting cards, notebooks, stickers, tote bags, and more. 

Bookselling This Week spoke with Wolf & Wren Press co-founder Lauren Stapleton to learn more.

Pixel + Ink Creative creates charming sidelines like enamel pins, bookmarks, stickers, and more, and is based in southwest Louisiana.

Bookselling This Week spoke with Pixel + Ink’s Daneisha Davis to learn more about the company’s designs and origins. 

NetGalley has been providing publishers (and booksellers, librarians, and other professional readers) with an alternative to physical galleys since 2008. Bookselling This Week spoke with Tarah Theoret, NetGalley's Senior Director of Community Experience to learn more.

Zingerman's Training (ZingTrain) offers in-person seminars, virtual workshops, and private trainings that share practical and proven tools to strengthen business systems and build healthy organizational culture. 

Withfriends helps indie bookstores get community support by making it easy to start and manage a membership program. Withfriends makes it incredibly easy to offer things like curated book-of-the-month clubs, exclusive member events, in-store discounts, online discounts, welcome swag kits, monthly book deliveries, and membership drives.