BTW Articles

17 Mar

Children’s Book Week Display Contest, Toolkit Details Announced

In celebration of the 96th annual Children’s Book Week, running this year from May 4 to 10, booksellers are once again invited to participate in the Children’s Book Week Display Contest.

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18 Mar

Interactive Independent Bookstore Day Map Goes Live

Readers awaiting the May 2 celebration of Independent Bookstore Day can now use an interactive Independent Bookstore Day map to find the more than 350 bookstores that will be selling the event’s special literary-themed merchandise.

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24 Apr

World Book Night: A Resounding Success

On Tuesday, April 23, 25,000 World Book Night givers fanned out across the country to deliver books into the hands of light and non-readers. Givers visited locations ranging from nursing homes, shelters, public parks, subway platforms, and firehouses to a hot dog stand, the Lincoln Memorial, Dress for Success offices, an Okinawa military base, and a steel mill.

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12 Mar

Upselling for Kids: Strategies and Best Practices From Wi10

At a Winter Institute panel presented by the ABC Children’s Group at ABA, booksellers offered strategies for communicating with customers about products, encouraging and training staff to upsell, and buying and displaying book and non-book pairings to maximize sales.

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12 Mar

Retail Sales at Bookstores Down in January

Retail sales at bookstores were down by 0.8 percent in January 2015 compared to January 2014, according to preliminary figures recently released by the Bureau of the Census.
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11 Mar

Community Welcomes New Owners of Bennington Bookshop

At an open house last week, customers warmly welcomed Bennington Bookshop’s new owners, Phil Lewis and Linda Foulsham. The couple bought the business from Ellen and Richard Havlak, who are retiring after 35 years at the helm of Vermont’s oldest independent bookstore.

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26 Feb

Bancard Offers Flier on Transition to EMV Chip Card Technology

In preparation for the credit card industry’s transition to EMV chip cards by October 2015, Bancard Systems, ABA’s affiliated credit card processing company, is providing its small business clients with a detailed flier looking at how merchants should plan for the switch.

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26 Feb

96th Annual Children’s Book Week Poster Unveiled

The official 2015 Children’s Book Week poster, commemorating the 96th year of the reading and literacy celebration, was designed by Grace Lee, a storybook artist for Disney Publishing Worldwide.

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26 Feb

Booksellers Share Successful Strategies for Book Subscription Clubs and School Registries

Leslie Hawkins of Spellbound Children’s Bookshop, Kerri Poore of Politics & Prose, and Jessica Stockton Bagnulo of Greenlight Bookstore discussed how to implement and manage book-of-the-month clubs and online registries at a Winter Institute session moderated by Holly Weinkauf of Red Balloon Bookshop.

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18 Feb

Bookworm of Edwards Launches Virtual Story Time

The Bookworm of Edwards has launched the Wiggle Worms story time channel on YouTube, featuring Children’s Director Franny Gustafson reading aloud new and classic picture books.

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