BTW Articles

10 Nov

Around Indies

Food for Thought and Bookshop Santa Cruz celebrate big anniversaries; Mystery Lovers aims to outfit a bookmobile; Changing Hands owner makes the case for shopping indie; Malibu welcomes back DIESEL; RiverRun garners community support; Strand owner talks to Marketplace

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10 Nov

Alliances Band Together to Encourage Consumers to “Shift Your Shopping”

This holiday season, several independent business and local first alliances are joining forces for the first time in a new campaign that urges consumers to “Shift Your Shopping.”

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17 Nov

New IndieCommerce Features Foster In-Store & Online Cross-Promotions

With the completion last week of IndieCommerce’s pre-holiday upgrades, booksellers have a new set of tools to drive sales between their bricks-and-mortar and online stores and customers have an easier shopping experience.

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22 Nov

Coffee House Press to Publish Lists of Booksellers’ Favorites

Next fall, Coffee House Press, distributed to the trade by Consortium, will publish Our Favorite Books, a compilation of 25 lists of independent booksellers’ favorite titles that began as a project of Micawber’s Bookstore owner Hans Weyandt for the store blog.

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22 Nov

Small Business Saturday: Not Too Late to Get Involved

This Saturday, November 26, is Small Business Saturday, but there’s still time to get involved. Stores can easily add their Facebook page link to the SBS website and download an assortment of promotional materials.

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30 Nov

Now’s the Time for “Shift Your Shopping”

Booksellers who are looking to build on the momentum of Small Business Saturday have a ready-made option in the ideas and materials created for the “Shift Your Shopping” campaign.

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30 Nov

Take Your Child to a Bookstore Day Expands Its Reach

This Saturday, December 3, hundreds of booksellers around the country will be marking the second annual Take Your Child to a Bookstore Day.

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01 Dec

Wholesaler Holiday Hours

Here’s a rundown of holiday hours as provided by the major book wholesalers.

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08 Dec

Flyleaf Responds to Free Speech Challenge

Last week, Flyleaf Books was caught in the middle of a controversy when several members of the community expressed strong opposition to an upcoming event on oil, gas, and energy supplies that was part of a series of talks presented in conjunction with UNC–Chapel Hill.

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08 Dec

Author Amy Cortese to Join Booksellers for Session on Alternative Financing

Booksellers are invited to join Amy Cortese, author of Locavesting: The Revolution in Local Investing and How to Profit From It; Rebecca Fitting, co-owner of Greenlight Bookstore; and Janet Geddis, owner of Avid Bookshop; for a discussion of alternative financing options on Thursday, January 19, at the Winter Institute.

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