Now available: Banned Books Week digital assets! Spread the word about Banned Books Week (September 18–24, 2022) with these media kit contents:

• Counter Card
• How Many Banned Books You’ve Read Checklist
• Banned Books Week BINGO
• Social media graphics

Sign-ups for the mailed kits have passed, but stores are welcome to use these digital assets.

Banned Books Week kits should be reaching bookstores very soon. If you ordered your kit and don't receive it by the first week of August, please contact [email protected].

In the wake of book bannings across the country, show your support for free expression and Banned Books Week by purchasing an "I Read Dangerously" T-shirt. All sales go to support ABFE, ABA's free speech initiative. Let everyone know you support the right to read!

The American Booksellers Association urges you to contact your lawmakers in support of the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (S. 2992), Klobuchar’s Antitrust bill. Amazon is primed for another year of anticompetitive practices that will help the online behemoth grow at the expense of communities, jobs, local businesses, and our economy. In response, it’s time to get even; it’s time to even the playing field. Urge U.S. House and Senate lawmakers to bring The American Innovation and Choice Online Act (S. 2992) to the floor for a vote!

Orders for the ABC Best Books for Young Readers catalog will open in September. ABC Members, be on the lookout for an email from Senior Manager of Children's Bookselling Programs & Education Gen de Botton to request up to 250 catalogs.

Oscar Hokeah is the author of Calling For A Blanket Dance, a Summer/Fall 2022 Indies Introduce adult selection. Here, Hokeah and Calvin Crosby of The King’s English Bookshop in Salt Lake City, Utah discuss Calling For A Blanket Dance.

This July, independent bookstores are dedicating displays and hiding spots for the beloved bespectacled character during Find Waldo Local 2022! See what creative activities Waldo has been up to this month!