1 Spot Left for Children's Book Buyers Retreat

SUMMER

Time for our RAMP Summer Catalog. Reserve yours now!

Publishers: Only 1 ad spot remains. Reserve your ad here. Reservations due March 1, 2024.

Bookstores: Orders due March 15. Projected catalog delivery to stores is May 8.

HOLIDAY

Ramp Holiday Catalog orders are open. Reserve yours now!

Publishers: Reserve your ads here. Reservations due June 15, 2024.

Bookstores: Orders open when Summer Catalog orders close.

NVNR Virtual Publicity Speed Dating 02/29

NVNR's first Publicity Speed Dating event of 2024 will be hosted on Zoom on February 29th. This is an opportunity for booksellers to meet publicists and share all the unique events they host in their store. This virtual event begins at 9:30 AM and ends at around 4:00 PM, with a lunch break. Publicists will receive access to the publicity kits and a complete list of stores attending.

Cost for booksellers to attend is $35.00. Booksellers can sign up for either a morning or afternoon session, but space is limited so only one spot per store is allowed. After you register, you will be contacted with your assigned specific time slot. (Booksellers: This is only a 30 minute commitment that day.) All times are Eastern Standard.

Your store must have a publicity kit to share with publicists, and must be a current member of SIBA or NAIBA to participate. See the NAIBA and SIBA websites for inspiration in creating your own publicity kit.

Register here: NAIBA (log in is required)

Publishers: Tell all your publicists about this and send them here to register.

NAIBA In-person Publicity Speed Dating 03/26 Gotham Comedy Club, NYC

Nothing compares to the time spent face-to-face passionately discussing a store events program and finding the perfect fit for authors. In fast-paced (15 minutes with each store) rounds of meetings (up to 25 in just this one day) booksellers and publicists can find the perfect spot for authors. 

Booksellers: There is a nominal $35 fee to attend. Open only to NAIBA members.

Publicists: This is a free event for publicists. You are welcome to split an assigned table between publicists / imprints or double up for greater impact.  

PBS Event Management Publicity Speed Dating

Publicity Speed Dating for the Professional Booksellers School Event Management students is Wednesday, May 8th. This is a virtual event and only open to current Event Management students. Presentations will begin at 9AM.

Publicists: This is a free event for you. Login is required to register to attend.

NAIBA’s advice column for booksellers.

It was a busy week for all those attending Winter Institute 2024 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Eileen and Kit thoroughly enjoyed seeing and talking with the many NAIBors who were there! It was exciting to have so many booksellers from all types of stores sharing ideas, stories, and supporting each other.

We spotted a few things that made us very happy...

NAIBA store owners and booksellers at dinner together on Monday evening. What an amazing, supportive group!

The Professional Booksellers School's exhibit table that was constantly busy all three days of conference!

Have some NAIBA photos from Wi24? Send them to kit@naiba.com along with details or captions and see them featured in our newsletter!

Candice, the official mobile hype unit, sporting flags and building enthusiasm for the Professional Booksellers School and our New Voices New Rooms annual conference!

Yours in Reading,

NAIBA

Don't forget to click the button below to submit a question. If you’d like to offer further advice to a question posted previously, reply to advice@naiba.com.

In partnership with Whole School Leadership, the Professional Booksellers School is offering a series of three Portal to Leadership courses. These mini-courses will be on Wednesdays from 3-4 pm ET/ 2-3 pm CT / 12-1 pm PT and will happen in March, May, and September. Each 3-week course delves into leadership principles to help bookstore owner & managers be better leaders, and learn to build trust and a sense of belonging among their staff and community. Each course is built around a book on leadership, and will feature discussion with the author and practice applying concepts in theory and practice.

Learn more and register here.

IPC is thrilled to be soft-launching their new Indie Press Month promotion with an Indie Display Contest and a social media campaign. Five indie bookstores will receive $50 in co-op and one indie bookstore will win $500!

Everything you need to know is available on their website, so check it out now!

You can register for the rest of our 2024 NAIBA Book Buzz events and find out about all the exciting new titles. Booksellers, make sure to select each month! Book Buzz is from 10AM-11:30AM on the first Wednesday of each month from January-June. Each Book Buzz you'll hear about top titles & items from four of our publishing & vendor NAIBors. Attendees receive specials & swag & giveaways.

Our January 3rd Book Buzz Recording & Edelweiss links:

Chesapeake & Hudson, BQB/WriteLife Publishing, Macmillan, Sourcebooks

Our February 7th Book Buzz Recording & Edelweiss links:

Catapult/Counterpoint/Soft Skull Press, Chesapeake & Hudson, North Star Editions, Scholastic

March 6th we will feature more Chesapeake & Hudson, Callisto, Astra Publishing, and Catalyst Press!

NVNR 2024

Booksellers are invited to nominate their favorite sales representatives for the Sales Rep of the Year Award from Publishers Weekly. They welcome nominations for outstanding telephone and house representatives as well as independent sales reps. Please include an example of the rep’s commitment to excellence, as well as contact information, including your name and industry affiliation. (Previous winners cannot be considered.)

Take the 2024 ABA Annual Membership survey

Sign up for Every Child a Reader's Children's Book Week 2024.

Your store could be featured on USA Today! The USA Today Books Page spotlights an independent bookstore each week. ABA member bookstores can pitch their bookstore to USA Today. Good Luck!

AMIBA invites you to sign on as a partner to promote their 2024 Choose Black-Owned Campaign. Let's inspire our communities to support black-owned businesses and celebrate diversity in our local economies. Partners will receive:

• A listing on Choose Black Owned website.
• Weekly emails with ideas on how to promote this campaign through February.
• Event marketing templates — including press releases, social media posts, and other materials.

Fly Paper Products Literary Gift Company is hosting a fundraiser for BINC through sales of their 'Indie Bookstore’ candle through April 27, 2024 - Independent Bookstore Day. 

Wholesale Information Wholesale – Fly Paper Products

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Website https://flypaperproducts.com/

NAIBA has a dedicated Discord server for member store owners and booksellers to communicate. Current members can contact kit@naiba.com to request the access code.NAIBA has a podcast! NAIBAhood Bits will cover the top five news stories each week. You can find it on Spotify, Spotify for Podcasters, and on Apple Podcasts. Please share this information with all of the staff in your bookstore!

NAIBA wants to share your fantastic ideas! It could be an event, program, process, or hack - any special trick or trade you do brilliantly that could benefit others in our region is welcome! Your idea could be featured in an upcoming NAIBAhood News and/or on our website. Submit your idea here.

NAIBA has a community on Edelweiss with NAIBors already in it. We invite all stores and booksellers to join us there. If you would like to be a part of the NAIBA Edwelweiss community, please email kit@naiba.com with your Edelweiss account name and email and we will take care of it.

NAIBA is undertaking a wage survey to gather figures for our region. This information will help owners and booksellers know if their store’s compensation is in line with their local area. Booksellers, please take a few minutes and fill out the survey now.

1 Congrats to Another Chapter Bookstore on their upcoming Grand re-opening this weekend!

2 Gert says hi to every bookseller at Browseabout books and has interesting nicknames for them!

3 You can never go wrong with a Bernie meme, this one from The Nonbinarian Book Bike.

4 Politics and Prose hit 50K folllowers on Instagram...congrats!

5 Fun graphic from A Likely Story Bookstore about reading during the Super Bowl.

6 Congrats to Ida's Bookshop on this feature about their recent crowdfunding success.

7 The Dog Eared Book shared what everyone was really thinking on Valentine's Day.

8 Just look at those perfectly placed books on the display table at Black Rock Books!

9 Oprah's Book Club shared a list of Black-Owned Bookstores that several of our stores are on!

10 Nice event recap from Midtown Scholar Bookstore.

11 Excellent Lunar New Year Recs from East City Bookshop.

12 Not from the NAIBAhood, but a fun video that talks about working at a library. You could easily adapt it to working at a bookstore, and I want to see your videos, so please do it!

Harvard Book Store is looking for a General Manager to help lead one of America’s prized

independent bookstores into its next chapter. Click here for details and application process.

HarperCollins is seeking a Sales Support Associate. Click here for details and application process.

House of Books, a boutique literary bookstore located in Kent, CT, is seeking a Marketing Director to join the team! Click here for details and application process.

Baltimore Read Aloud, a pop-up independent bookstore, seeks Pop-up and Event Booksellers for their offsite events. Click here for details and application process.

Greenlight is hiring an Events & Marketing Manager. Click here for details and application process.

Midtown Scholar Bookstore seeks a book cataloguer for their rare-and-collectible-books division. Click here for details and application process.

ML Books, Inc. is looking for a bookstore or bookselling company either to take over the company or to incorporate its operations into their own business. Click here for more information.

Book buyer for hire! If you are in need of help with your book buying so you can focus on all the other aspects of running a bookstore, click here for details.

House of Books, in CT, is hiring a Children's Specialist to be the store's point of contact and front-facing employee in directing and growing our Little House of Books brand. Click here for details and application process.