BTW Articles

17 Dec

AMIBA Offers 'Buy Indie/Buy Local' Outreach Tools

The American Independent Business Alliance (AMIBA) has a free holiday gift for local communities -- new outreach tools aimed at ramping up "Buy Indie/Buy Local" campaigns for the holidays -- or anytime. Among the offerings are a bag stuffer template and two posters/fliers spreading the pro-independent message.

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17 Dec

More IndieCommerce Sites Move to Drupal Platform

Eighteen ABA member stores have migrated from the old BookSense.com legacy system to IndieCommerce's Drupal-based platform in the last month, bringing the total number of stores on the new system to more than 120.

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17 Dec

Bookseller's Memoir Details Grassroots Efforts in Support of Obama

John and Michelle Presta got their start in bookselling in 1991 as the founders of a small bookstore, Reading on Walden, in Chicago. They got their start in politics about a decade later working on the campaign of then-congressional hopeful Barack Obama.

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17 Dec

Around Indies

Little Shop of Stories Claims Its Prize: Neil Gaiman

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17 Dec

BTW News Briefs

Above the Treeline in New Partnership to Provide Digital Galleys

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17 Dec

BTW's Holiday Schedule

Bestseller Reporting Remains Unchanged

To get a jump on the Christmas holiday, next week's edition of Bookselling This Week will arrive in your inbox on Tuesday, December 22. There will be no BTW the following week (the week of New Year's Day). However, the Indie Bestseller Lists will be produced and e-mailed as usual on Tuesday, December 22, and Tuesday, December 29; they will also be posted to BookWeb late Tuesday afternoon.

The Bestseller reporting period for both weeks remains unchanged:

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10 Dec

BookExpo America Secures Manhattan Hotel for ABA Members

ABA Hotel Will Be Located Just North of Javits Center

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10 Dec

Announcing the 2009 Indie Bestsellers: Now in Attractive, Downloadable Fliers

This week, the American Booksellers Association unveils the 2009 Indie Bestsellers, the year's top-selling titles at hundreds of independent bookstores across the country in the categories of Hardcover Fiction and Nonfiction, Read More

10 Dec

New Wi5 Publisher Partner, New Scholarship Recipient

This week, the American Booksellers Association welcomed HarperCollins Children's Books as the newest Winter Institute (Wi5) Publisher Partner. Thanks to HarperCollins Children's Books' support, Shirley Mullin, owner of Kids Ink Children's Bookstores in Indianapolis, Indiana, will be attendingWi5 in San Jose, California, on a scholarship.

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18 Mar

City Lights Named PW's Bookseller of the Year

San Francisco's City Lights Bookstore, founded by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, has been chosen as Publishers Weekly's Bookseller of the Year for 2010.

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