Specialty Bookselling

Registrants for the ABC Children’s Institute, which kicks off on April 5, can now access the Children’s Institute event listing in the ABA Institutes app.

Here are tips for planning kids’ book festivals, including teaming with area organizations, developing programming, and handling ticketing and on-site sales, as shared by bookseller panelists at Wi12.

Representatives from six small presses will be on hand to discuss upcoming titles and share finished books and advance copies with booksellers at the April 7 Publisher Consultations at Ci5.

Based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending March 19, 2017.

The Consultation Station at Children’s Institute will feature representatives from ABA’s affiliated business solution partners, POS vendors, and other service providers.

Through a new initiative, SHOP LOCAL, LIVE LOCAL, AdventureKEEN will donate 100 percent of profits from the sale of its titles at independent bookstores this June to the Book Industry Charitable Foundation.

Here, BookScan analysts Kristen McLean and Allison Risbridger of NPD Book share a preview of findings on the children’s book market, which will be presented in full next month at Children’s Institute.

Children’s Institute registrants interested in attending the advanced education session “Idea Exchange for Owners and Managers” should register now.

All Children’s Institute attendees planning to participate in the Backlist Book Swap Party on opening night, April 5, should let ABA know what kids’ book they’ll be swapping. 

Rachel Ignotofsky, author of Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World, will deliver the closing keynote at next month’s Children’s Institute.

Booksellers can sign up now for the ABC Children’s Institute Advanced Education Session, “Idea Exchange for Owners and Managers,” and share their ideas for topics to discuss during the event.

More than 50 authors and illustrators will appear at next month’s ABC Children’s Institute over the course of two days of plenary sessions, featured talks, and special events.

With the 2017 ABC Children’s Institute just four weeks away, here are some important updates and reminders.

Based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending March 5, 2017.

Voting opened on March 3 for the 10th annual Children’s & Teen Choice Book Awards, the national book awards program in which the winners are selected by children and teens of all ages.