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08 Jan
Indie Next List Preview

The February 2025 Indie Next List Preview

Here are the 25 Indie Next List and 6 Now in Paperback picks on the February 2025 Indie Next List flier.

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08 Jan
Indie Next List Interview
Children’s Bookselling

Q&A with Lily Braun-Arnold, Author of January/February Kids’ Indie Next List Top Pick “The Last Bookstore on Earth”

“An engaging YA novel about a young woman riding out a post-apocalyptic world in the bookstore where she worked pre-Storm. A nice mix of trials and tribulations with wry humor and a sweet budding sapphic romance. I was hooked from the first chapter,” said Jean Bartz of Books on Main in Friendship, Wisconsin.

 

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08 Jan
Indie Next List Interview

A Q&A with Grady Hendrix, Author of January Indie Next List Top Pick “Witchcraft for Wayward Girls”

“A beautifully haunting, thought-provoking story about societal views and motherhood that dabbles with witchcraft. There are moments where you laugh, feel scared, and even cry. That’s the beauty of this book: everything comes with a price,” said Caylee Wilson of Midtown Reader in Tallahassee, Florida.
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07 Jan
Advocacy

This Week in Book Challenges: January 8, 2025

Book challenge tracking for December 11, 2024 through January 7, 2025.

 

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03 Jan
Advocacy

Arkansas Act 372 Permanently Enjoined in District Court

On December 23, 2024, the US District Court for the Western District of Arkansas declared Arkansas Act 372 unconstitutional in an opinion indicating that the law is overbroad and void for vagueness, permanently enjoining its enforcement. 

 

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01 Jan
Education
Marketing
Membership

A Top 10 2025 1st Quarter (Q1) Checklist

Congratulations! You made it through the retail holiday season. Take a deep breath…now on to the new year. Here’s a Top 10 1st Quarter (Q1) checklist of great ways to kick off the year.

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12 Dec
Advocacy

FAQ: Maryland’s New Gift Card Law

In May 2024, Maryland passed the Gift Cards Scam Protection Act, which is the first law in the country that takes aim at stopping what is known as “gift card draining.” The law goes into effect for open-loop gift cards on June 1, 2025, and on October 1, 2025, for closed-loop gift cards.

 

 

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11 Dec
Indie Next List Preview
Children’s Bookselling

January/February 2025 Kids’ Indie Next List Preview

Here is a preview of the titles on the January/February 2025 Kids’ Indie Next List flier, arriving at stores in the upcoming Kids’ Box mailing.

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11 Dec
Book News
IndieCommerce

The Winter 2025 Reading Group Guide Preview

This guide includes the following categories: Dazzling Debuts, Family and Coming of Age, Historical Fiction, Other Worlds, and Thrills & Chills.
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04 Dec
Health Care
Resources
Advocacy

The Deadline For 2025 Health Coverage Is Almost Here!

The American Booksellers Association’s health coverage partner, LIG Solutions, shares Open Enrollment reminders.

 

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