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Some authors will be autographing exclusively for ABA member booksellers in the ABA Member Lounge and Galley Room.

Formerly the Celebration of Bookselling Lunch, this year’s awards will be presented in a new format on the trade show floor. 

The customized reports and online tools that reporting stores receive in return for filling out the survey provide a full picture of a bookstore’s financial performance and key information for strategic planning.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Capstone, Scholastic, and Workman are the latest publishers to offer special programs for indies after the news that wholesaler Baker & Taylor will no longer distribute to retailers.

Retail sales at U.S. bookstores were down by 7 percent in March 2019 compared to March 2018, according to preliminary figures recently released by the Bureau of the Census. As of May 15, the year-to-date sales among ABA member stores, as reported to the weekly Indie Bestseller Lists, are even with 2018.

ABA bookstore members that sign up as new clients with credit card processing company Chosen Payments at BookExpo 2019 will get a $100 signing bonus.

Workman Publishing is introducing wide-ranging changes that will benefit both new and existing independent bookstore accounts.

Booksellers will discuss how to engage with their local writing communities, to create high-margin titles to sell in-store, and to develop bookstore-branded products.

“The only word I can use to properly describe this book is ‘delicious,’” said Emelie Burl of Hickory Stick Bookshop.

Bookselling This Week talked with Billie Bloebaum of Third Street Books about how she navigates conversations with friends, family, customers, and authors about the value of shopping local.