02/02/2012 @ 10:00AM
It’s not just the timing—one week later than usual—that makes this year’s BookExpo stand out. Among the tweaks is a dedicated day for children’s booksellers. And looking ahead to 2013 it could invite the public on the last day.
02/01/2012 @ 12:00AM
World Book Night U.S. has extended the deadline for people to sign up to be book givers as well as for bookstores, libraries and other locations to distribute the books until February 6. The deadline had been February 1. For those interested in participating go to www.worldbooknight.org.
01/31/2012 @ 12:00AM
The Northern California Independent Booksellers Association will move its annual trade show to South San Francisco and cut one day from the 2012 schedule.
01/30/2012 @ 12:00AM
The picturesque town of Mazama, Wash., located near the gateway to the northern Cascade mountain range, will be the site of the first Mazama Festival of Books the last weekend of August.
01/27/2012 @ 07:00PM
The seventh annual event delivers energy boost to booksellers
Buoyed by a strong finish to 2011, indie booksellers celebrated their independence at this year’s seventh annual American Booksellers Association Winter Institute held at the Astor Crowne Plaza in New Orleans, January 18–20. Some who recently opened second stores, like Peter Makin at Brilliant Books, in Suttons Bay, Mich., are already looking to expand again. Others like Linda Bubon and Ann Christophersen, cofounders of Women and Children First in Chicago, are simply happy to see sales turn around, up more than 30% for the holidays.
01/26/2012 @ 12:00AM
Reed Exhibitions, owner of BookExpo America, has purchased the Book Blogger Convention, an annual day-long conference devoted to providing support, instruction, and social time for people who blog about books.
01/26/2012 @ 12:00AM
All of our coverage of this year's ALA Midwinter conference in one place.
01/17/2012 @ 12:00AM
World Book Night has announced that Germany is the second international partner alongside the United States to stage a national one million book giveaway for adults on April 23rd, the Unesco International Day of the Book.
01/11/2012 @ 07:00AM
MIBA and GLiBA have made it official: they will hold a joint show in Minneapolis October 3-5, and call it the Heartland Fall Forum.
01/11/2012 @ 12:00AM
Program chairs Joe Wikert and Kat Meyer tell PW what we should expect from the conference this year. Click through for a discount code to the event, good for 25% off any package.
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