From Bookselling this Week By Liz Button on Tuesday, Sep 20, 2016 Seattle’s poetry-only bookstore, Open Books: A Poem Emporium, held its grand reopening on Saturday, September 17, celebrating its new lease on life under the ownership of former customer Billie Swift. This past April, husband-and-wife team John Marshall and Christine Deavel announced they were …
This week, 600 booksellers gathered in Denver for the 11th annual Winter Institute, a 3-day educational conference for people who own or work in independent bookstores, hosted by the American Booksellers Association (ABA). The ABA started a new tradition on the opening night: a backlist book swap. “Backlist” titlesare books that have been around (the opposite of …
Karen Emmerling, the owner of Beach Books in Seaside, Oregon, recently accepted the 2014 Clatsop Economic Development Resources Award for Business Service to the Community. “Among other efforts, Beach Books erects a wishing tree during the holidays to support Seaside School District, opens the store to local artists and visiting authors, and holds book drives for various …
Downtown Seattle was chockablock with indie booksellers in late January, as hundreds of them flew in for the American Booksellers Association’s ninth annual Winter Institute, where they got to schmooze with authors, attend educational panels, meet with publishing reps, and best of all, talk to each other. Maybe it was the uncharacteristically fine weather that …
A recent email newsletter from Village Books reminded me about a program booksellers around the country are participating in to help showcase debut books: Indies Introduce. The American Booksellers Association has posted videos of debut authors introducing their own books, like actress and author Octavia Spencer, above, introducing her chapter book for kids, Randi Rhodes, Ninja …
Have you heard about Indies First Storytime Day on May 17, 2014? Children’s book authors will be storming indie bookstores on May 17, sharing favorite books! The American Booksellers Association (ABA), a community of independent booksellers, publishers, wholesalers, and other book-loving folk, posted this great announcement in Bookselling this Week. Excerpts are below, but for all …
Last week, hundreds of booksellers, authors, and publishers converged on Seattle for the American Booksellers Association’s ninth annual Winter Institute (Wi9), an industry celebration and education opportunity. Was your favorite local bookseller there? Enjoy some photos from the Elliott Bay Book Company-hosted opening ceremonies to get a taste of the spirit of the event.
The holidays are almost upon us. Bookseller and authors have teamed up for a spectacular shop local event on Small Business Saturday, November 30: Indies First. Seattle author Sherman Alexie got the ball rolling; in September, he emailed a group of authors encouraging them to help their local, independent booksellers by volunteering to mix with …
The sign-up for independent bookstores to be host stores for the next World Book Night is open from now through Dec. 31, 2013. The online registration form is being handled by the ABA, although ALL stores are welcome, not just ABA members. World Book Night and the American Booksellers Association want to make it easier than …
It was announced yesterday that Amazon has worked out a deal to purchase the online book sharing network Goodreads. That’s right, when Amazon takes the reigns later this year, your Goodreads account email and reading profile belong to them. It was just last year that Goodreads moved to an Ingram database from Amazon because of …
