IndieBound

Based on sales in independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending March 20, 2011.

The April Indie Next List’s 12 “Now in Paperback” titles are featured with bookseller quotes on a downloadable flier and shelf-talkers.

ABA has created a series of new templated ads for members designed to help communicate the special attributes and ongoing services of indie bookstores to customers and book buyers. The six ads present a positive, inviting message and are adaptable for many markets.

Here’s a link to the full-color flier for the  2011 Indie Next List Poetry Top Ten, announced last week.

Fifty-six high school students have been named winners of book gift certificates in the inaugural year of James Patterson’s “Book Dollars for Scholars” program. Prizes are redeemable at IndieBound-affiliated bookstores.

The owners and staff at all member stores in good standing are invited to cast their ballots for the 2011 Indies Choice Book Awards and the E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards.

Reservations for ABA’s Celebration of Bookselling Author Awards Luncheon on Tuesday, May 24, at BEA will be accepted from two booksellers at each member store on a first-come, first-served basis.

Based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending March 6, 2011.

Here is the 2011 Indie Next List Poetry Top Ten, based on the enthusiastic nominations of independent booksellers nationwide. A full-color PDF of the list is downloadable here  and from BookWeb.

Here’s a look at the Indie Next List Great Reads and Now in Paperback titles featured on the April 2011 Indie Next List flier on its way to ABA member stores in the IndieBound movement.

On Tuesday, March 1, the owners and staff at ABA member stores began voting to choose the winners of  the 2011 Indies Choice Book Awards, which now include the E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards, previously administered by the Association of Booksellers for Children.

Owners and staff at all ABA member stores in good standing can now vote via electronic ballot for the 2011 Indies Choice Book Awards, and, for the first time, the E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards, formerly administered by the Association of Booksellers for Children.

Based on sales at hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending February 20, 2011.

The March Indie Next List’s 12 “Now in Paperback” titles are featured on a flier and shelf-talkers, ready for download from BookWeb.org.

Stores currently renewing their ABA dues will receive a new “Eat Sleep Read Local” poster. For those also signing up for the new ABA ABC Children’s Group, there’s an additional “Snack Nap Read” poster.