Want better discounts from publishers? Now is the time. As part of ABA's 10th Annual Celebration of Indies First, publishers and wholesalers are offering additional discounts on everything, some as much as an additional 5% on every book! This extra discount can make a significant difference in your Q4 cost of goods and overall profitability.

Every Child a Reader is currently registering bookstores and other locations to participate in Fall Children’s Book Week, November 7–13. All participants will receive five free copies of Raúl the Third’s stunning Book Week poster and have the opportunity to promote both virtual and in-person events taking place during the week to ECaR’s wider network.

The temporary, waterless "I Read Dangerously" tattoos that booksellers can sell in their stores are now available for order. The tattoos wholesale for $1.25 each, the minimum order is a quantity of 150. The tattoos retail for $2.99 each. All net profits from sales go to the American Booksellers for Free Expression. To order or inquire, please email [email protected].

This year, we released Q3 and Q4 Marketing Calendar Handouts in PDFs. We’d love member input on the direction of the 2023 marketing handouts. We can continue providing handouts as PDFs or we can share iCalendar files that can be imported into your digital calendars such as GoogleCalendar or Outlook. Please select one option:

• iCalendar Files
• PDFs

ABA member stores can order this year’s ABC Best Books for Young Readers catalog until October 12, 2022. The catalog will feature nearly 150 frontlist and backlist titles for children and teens, all suggested by ABA member booksellers and selected by a committee of children's booksellers. The full-color, 20-page consumer circular is expected to be in stores in late October.

With open enrollment for health insurance beginning on November 1, 2022 in most states, ABA wants to remind booksellers about its partnership with LIG Solutions. LIG Solutions is a health insurance concierge service offering customers in-depth knowledge about health insurance solutions available in their state. LIG provides a centralized location for answers to health insurance questions. Booksellers can purchase health insurance policies through LIG. Contact ABA’s membership health insurance partner, LIG Solutions for a no-obligation health insurance assessment.

Laura Krantz is the author of the novel The Search for Sasquatch, a Summer/Fall 2022 Indies Introduce middle grade selection. Here, Krantz and Ernio Hernandez of River Bend Books in Glastonbury, CT, and Andrew King of Secret Garden Bookshop, Seattle, WA, discuss The Search for Sasquatch. 

Independent booksellers across the country have chosen Celeste Ng’s Our Missing Hearts as their top pick for the October 2022 Indie Next List. Here, Bookselling This Week and Ng talk about Our Missing Hearts.

In the summer of 2023, one of the biggest changes to Google’s tracking platform in the last two decades is coming — Google Analytics 4. Anyone using the current Google Analytics platform will need to switch. Join us Thursday, October 13, at 1:00 pm ET for part two of the series: Technology Meetup - Google Analytics 4. Led by Sarah Benoit, Co-founder and Lead Instructor at JB Media Institute, this meetup will give an overview of the changes you will need to understand when you start using GA4. Visit BookWeb for a recap of part one of the series.

During Banned Books Week, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) and Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI) introduced a resolution recognizing Banned Books Week and condemning the "profound attacks" on books and freedom of expression in the United States. Raskins and Schatz are urging Congress to "denounce the illegitimate processes being used to ban books in K-12 classrooms, universities, prisons, and libraries." The Banned Books Week Coalition, which includes ABFE, endorsed the resolution. 

We continue to urge booksellers to sign and share ABFE's banned books petition. The petition is for independent booksellers to collectively condemn the growing partisan attacks on books and offer support to schools and libraries.

Binc will be offering two $750 scholarships to comic book store owners and their employees to attend the Diamond Summit in Baltimore, MA, October 26–27, 2022. The funds may be used for travel, replacement wages, lodging, and meals. Applications are now open. The deadline to apply is October 3, 2022, by 5:00 pm ET. Learn more and apply.

The Children’s Book Council (CBC) Graphic Novel Committee presents the 2022 Graphic Novel YA Debut Book Buzz Virtual Panel on Thursday, October 13, 6:00 pm–7:00 pm ET. RSVP by October 4. Join editors and marketing professionals from a dozen publishing houses as they each enthuse about a debut YA graphic novel published this year, in time for the holiday season.