Disasters/Relief

The Book Industry Charitable Foundation will host a fundraising game at next month’s Children’s Institute, where booksellers can donate money to Binc by buying flashing pins for a chance to win $250.

Throughout the month of April, Binc will share stories of booksellers who have been helped after life-changing events in the hope of getting 50 book lovers to become Binc monthly sustaining donors.

“I’ve felt like I’m falling and no one will let me — it’s amazing, all these catchers. I’m lucky!” said one bookseller who received financial assistance from the Book Industry Charitable Foundation.

“Emergency preparedness and resiliency planning is not about having all the answers — it’s about gathering the right tools,” said Wi13 education session panelist John Cavalier of Cavalier House Books.

The Book Industry Charitable Foundation’s “Heads or Tails” game collected $7,700 for the organization, which ABA chose as the Winter Institute’s first-ever featured charity.

The Book Industry Charitable Foundation’s Board has gained two new members: Jen Reynolds, the director of field sales for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and former Village Books co-owner Chuck Robinson.

Four ABA member bookstores on the East Coast experienced water damage over the past week due to malfunctioning pipes, caused, in some cases, by a recent streak of cold weather in the region.

Booksellers who weathered natural disasters will offer real-world advice on how to help independent bookstores prepare for and survive a natural disaster or other emergency.

The Book Industry Charitable Foundation (Binc) will host a “Heads or Tails” game at this year’s Winter Institute, where booksellers can donate money to Binc by buying flashing pins for a chance to win a $500 AmEx gift card.

As the Book Industry Charitable Foundation ends an unprecedentedly busy year of helping booksellers, its #MoreThanEver year-end campaign has unlocked another potential $5,000 in matching funds.

The wildfires raging through Ventura County, California, this week continue to grow, prompting mass evacuations and damaging hundreds of homes and buildings. 

Booksellers in Northern California’s wine country and beyond have banded together to help others who have been affected by the wildfires that continue to ravage Sonoma and Napa counties.