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New Voices New Rooms ARLINGTON, VA., AUGUST 8-11 The second in-person collaborative annual show between the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association (NAIBA) and Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) once again [...]

Picture Books Vera Ahiyya * Getting Ready for Preschool; Getting Ready for Kindergarten (Random House, June; illus. by Debby Rahmalia; $10.99) Why the buzz: 'We are thrilled to begin publishing [...]

PATRICIA DOHERTY Macmillan Entangled Publishing has had a record-breaking year thanks, in large part, to the success of Rebecca Yarros's Empyrean fantasy series. Much of the press's dominance in the [...]

With summer on the wane and holiday titles on order, excitement around this fall's fiction, nonfiction, and children's books is building. PW talked with booksellers about what they'll be handselling [...]

Although the 2024 election season won't shift into high gear until after Labor Day, booksellers across the country are making plans for what Lissa Muscatine, co-owner of Politics & Prose [...]

The fall regional bookselling association trade show season kicked off August 8-11 with New Voices New Rooms, the five-year collaboration between the New Atlantic Booksellers Association and the Southern Independent [...]

Barnes & Noble's acquisition last summer of Tattered Cover sparked a surge of energy coursing through Denver's already-vibrant bookselling landscape, says Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association executive director Heather [...]

FICTION Rumaan Alam Entitlement (Riverhead, Sept.; $30; 150,000-copy announced first printing) Why the buzz: 'Entitlement feels custommade for this moment. A thrill ride of a read that combines style, propulsion, [...]

PICTURE NOOKS Lauren Castillo Just Like Millie (Candlewick, Apr.; $17.99; 30,000-copy announced first printing) Why the buzz: 'I fell in love with this story about a girl finding the courage [...]

Meg Medina, the 2023-2024 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature (an initiative of the Library of Congress in partnership with Every Child a Reader), received the 2019 Newbery Medal for [...]

New Orleans is the perfect place for a booksellers conference, says Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance executive director Linda-Marie Barrett, who gathered SIBA booksellers there two years ago. 'It's a very [...]

As of May 2023, the American Booksellers Association's membership included 2,185 companies with 2,599 locations; of those, 693 have opened their doors since January 2021. Many of these new booksellers [...]

The 2024 holiday season kicked off on November 29, with booksellers reporting strong sales despite obstacles confronting some stores. In Washington, D.C., Mahogany Books, which closed its District store in [...]

After more than a decade in the book business, Beacon Press senior publicist Bev Rivero is adamant that working with social justice--focused independent publishers is a form of activism. 'I [...]

This year's Winter Institute, which runs Sunday-Wednesday, February 23-26, in Denver, will be a momentous occasion. The American Booksellers Association is marking its 125th anniversary as a trade organization advocating [...]

Two years after Winter Institute was abruptly canceled in 2022 due to an upsurge in Covid-19 cases, booksellers are poised to descend upon Cincinnati for four days of education, networking, [...]

A confident mood prevailed among independent booksellers over Thanksgiving weekend as customers packed stores from Kramerbooks in Washington, D.C., to Island Books in Washington State. Indies organized author events and [...]

While people in the U.S. experienced poor air quality this past summer due to smoke from Canadian wildfires, Canadian booksellers were impacted much more directly. Most of the indie booksellets [...]

The official language of Quebec is French, so it should come as no surprise that most English-language publishers in Canada are based outside the province--primarily in Ontario. The Association of [...]

If there's a common theme to the half-dozen hottest releases for the children's market this fall from indie presses, it's this: no matter how small and insignificant one considers oneself [...]

Below is a sampling of the scores of novelists and nonfiction writers presenting their adult works to booksellers at Winter Institute, followed by a section on children's authors and illustrators [...]

Winter Institute comes to Seattle in February, returning to in-person after two years of virtual shows Just over three years after Winter Institute attendees last met in Baltimore in January [...]

Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Fall Tradeshow Portland, Ore., September 19-21 For the third year, PNBA has front-loaded its show's schedule with a day-one Big Pitch session with sales reps, followed [...]

The American Booksellers Association hosted a rollicking Children's Institute 2024 in New Orleans June 10-12. The event featured strong attendance and vibrant programming focused on advocacy and literacy. ABA COO [...]

Cheryl Willis Hudson is the cofounder and editorial director of Just Us Books, which she launched in 1988 with her husband, Wade Hudson, to uplift Black history and culture. She [...]

In a statement accepting her role as the American Booksellers Association's 2023-2024 independent bookstore ambassador, poet Amanda Gorman called indie bookstores 'vital hubs of creativity and community.' And those qualities [...]

Even after 54 years, divided almost evenly between being a sales representative and a bookstore buyer, Patricia Nelson, a rep with University Press Sales Associates, remains intrigued by the publishing [...]

In some ways, it's never been easier to get in the game as an independent press--a reliable internet connection and some elbow grease can go a long way. Succeeding is [...]

The two dozen booksellers PW recently surveyed about holiday sales expectations were anticipating a strong season even before, late last month, Penguin Random House announced the November 15 release of [...]

Midwestern children's publishers find inspiration in their communities 'In a way, Minnesota companies have become the center of independent children's publishing on a national level,' says Lerner Publishing Group CEO [...]

Randy Hickernell s far as Hachette Book Group field rep Randy Hickernell is concerned, although the world has changed since he became a rep in 1979, his repping style has, [...]

Sonny Mehta Perhaps S.I. Newhouse should be credited for burnishing America's most prestigious imprint, when he offered the editorin-chief job at Knopf, over a Manhattan dinner, to a little-known paperback [...]

BOOK FAIRS have long been an industry staple, providing publishers with opportunities to present their newest offerings to booksellers and others. As the industry has evolved, and the pandemic has [...]

For the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association and the Southern Independent Booksellers Association, there's strength in unity. After joining forces in 2020 to host New Voices New Rooms, a virtual [...]

When poet and Pulitzer-winning novelist Louise Erdrich, an enrolled Turtle Mountain Chippewa, founded Birchbark Books & Native Arts in Minneapolis in 2001, there were few Indigenous-owned bookstores in North America [...]

It has now been nearly three years since the start of the pandemic, and independent booksellers feel things are more or less back to normal. Generally speaking, indies across the [...]

Booksellers don't just sell books: they're storytellers, too. And at the American Booksellers Association Winter Institute 2024, which ran February 11-14 in Cincinnati, Ohio, stories percolated throughout the conference's keynotes, [...]

In CLAIRE MESSUD'S eighth novel, This Strange Eventful History (Norton, May), various members of the Cassars, a nomadic family of Algerian pieds-noirs, take turns narrating their stories as they navigate [...]

The 2022 holiday season officially kicked off the weekend after Thanksgiving, and bookstores across the country reported being filled with crowds of eager shoppers and the merry sounds of cash [...]

From supply chain concerns to a potential inflation-fueled slide in consumer spending, the months leading up to Indies First/Small Business Saturday saw one dire prediction after another for indie booksellers. [...]

America's Heartland has sometimes been dismissed as 'flyover country,' and its publishing activity is often overlooked by an industry concentrated on the coasts and increasingly dominated by international conglomerates. But [...]

If any one company embodies what it means to be a Heartland children's publisher--doing things its own way to help children better understand a rapidly changing world--it might be Free [...]

After George Floyd was murdered by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvinon May 25, 2020, five days of civil unrest across the Twin Cities followed, impacting a number of businesses and [...]

Children's and YA booksellers will roll into the Crescent City Monday-Wednesday, June 10-12, for Children's Institute 2024. 'If you've attended Children's Institute in the past, then you know there's a [...]

Over the past 25 years, the Book Industry Charitable Foundation has given out more than $10 million in aid to 10,000 individuals and bricks-and-mortar bookstores and comics shops. 'Our core [...]

Children's booksellers have reason for caurious oprimism. Although rhe delta variant is surging in parts of the country, the number of Americans who are fully vaccinated continues to inch upward [...]

With all nonfiction categories posting double-digit declines, unit sales of print books fell 9.4% in the week ended June 25, 2022, from the comparable week in 2021, at outlets that [...]

Launched in 2013 to publish digital editions of out-of-print genre fiction from the 1960s and '70s, Las Vegas's Wolf pack Publishing reports that while revenue growth was steady in its [...]

Danny Caine, co-owner of The Raven Book Store in Lawrence, Kans., was a popular figure at various bookselling shows this fall discussing How to Protect Bookstores and Why. The Present [...]

A barbershop may not be the first place people think of as a source for books, but to Artika Tyner, an educator and civil rights attorney in St. Paul, Minn., [...]