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29 Jan
About Bookstores

How Indie Bookstores Are Celebrating Lunar New Year

Happy Lunar New Year! Today, January 29, marks the start of the Year of the Snake. From story times and displays, to craft classes and local festivals, check out how our member stores are celebrating the holiday.
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29 Jan
Indies Introduce
Indies Introduce Interview

Indies Introduce Q&A with Maggie Su

“At its core, Blob is about falling back in love with the parts of yourself that you thought you lost forever,” said Mikey LaFave of Avid Bookshop in Athens, Georgia.
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29 Jan
Indie Next List Interview

A Q&A with Virginia Feito, Author of February Indie Next List Top Pick “Victorian Psycho”

“Grotesque, wildly funny, and utterly weird, this novel will have you hooked as the new governess enters the dysfunctional halls of Ensor’s House. Feito takes the Gothic and tames it like a misbehaving charge,” said Joshua Lambie of Underground Books in Carrollton, Georgia.
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29 Jan
About ABA
ABA Board election

ABA Announces 2025 Board Candidates

A ballot for the 2025 Board elections will be sent to ABA members via email in March.

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22 Jan
About Bookselling
E-commerce

The 2024 Sales Survey Results Are In!

Thank you to everyone who answered this year’s sales survey! Here’s what we learned about your stores’ 2024 sales:

839 members responded to the 2024 sales survey.

Of our survey respondents, 52.7% said their 2024 sales were up from 2023. (17.4% said their stores had not been open long enough to accurately compare for 2023 and 2024.)

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22 Jan
Specialty Bookselling

The Indie Healthy Living Bestseller List

Here is the Indie Healthy Living Bestseller List, based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending January 19, 2025. 

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15 Jan
About Bookstores

Indie Bookstores on MLK Day/Inauguration Day

This year, Martin Luther King Jr. Day shares a date with Inauguration Day. Here’s what some of our member stores have planned.

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15 Jan
About Bookselling
Blog

Partner Spotlight: Pixel and Ink

Pixel + Ink Creative creates charming sidelines like enamel pins, bookmarks, stickers, and more, and is based in southwest Louisiana.

Bookselling This Week spoke with Pixel + Ink’s Daneisha Davis to learn more about the company’s designs and origins. 

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15 Jan
Indies Introduce
Indies Introduce Interview

Indies Introduce Q&A with Trisha Tobias

“Don't let the duppy get you…Honeysuckle and Bone transports you to the canicular heat of Jamaica as the secrets heat up with each turning page. From the secrets to the lies, you’ll feel like our main character, Carina, eavesdropping behind every wall,” said Morgan Haywood-Joy of Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn, New York.

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14 Jan
Advocacy

This Week in Book Challenges: January 15, 2025

Book challenge tracking for January 8, 2025 through January 14, 2025.

 

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