IndieCommerce

The ABC Best Books for Children catalog is now available through ABA IndieCommerce websites. 

ABA welcomed this week’s introduction in the Senate of the Marketplace Fairness Act, legislation that would provide states with authorization to require remote sellers to collect and remit state sales tax, as an important step toward a national sales tax fairness solution.

For new booksellers and experienced ones who would like a quick review, we present BTW’s annual holiday preparations checklist. We hope you’ll find something here that can help make the season go a little smoother for you, your staff, and your customers.

The newest addition to publisher e-book promotions featured on IndieCommerce.com’s Publisher Promotions page is from Random House.

Next week, just in time for Halloween, Sourcebooks’ promo on paranormal romances and Unbridled’s sale on Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius kick in.

The latest addition to publisher e-book promotions featured on IndieCommerce.com’s Publisher Promotions page is from Hyperion.

Ongoing and upcoming publisher e-book promotions are featured on IndieCommerce.com’s Publisher Promotions page, which includes product numbers and materials provided by publishers to help stores draw attention to e-book titles on sale.

The price that ABA member stores pay each month for their IndieCommerce websites is going down.  This week, ABA announced that the monthly fee for IndieCommerce subscribers would be reduced from $225 per month to $175 per month, beginning October 1.

Booksellers who attended ABA’s inaugural IndieCommerce Institute have provided feedback that is instrumental in gauging the event’s success, as well as in shaping future plans.

The IndieCommerce Institute, which debuted in Chicago yesterday, drew close to 70 booksellers who took part in a day of intensive work focused on building a better website and developing e-commerce.

ABA is working with Bluefire Productions to create a version of the company’s popular BlueFire Reader app for IndieCommerce stores selling Google eBooks™. 

To promote indie bookstores and their ability to sell e-books, Penguin is creating customized easels for stores selling Google eBooks™ via their IndieCommerce websites.

Scott Nafz, the senior customer service rep for ABA’s IndieCommerce program, assists bookstore members in all matters related to their e-commerce websites.

Here’s an action kit of marketing ideas and strategies that can help spread the word that indie bookstores are alive, well, and very much open for business, both in-store and online.

Customers visiting ABA member stores’ IndieCommerce websites can now log in using their Google Accounts.