Enrollment for the Professional Booksellers School Inventory Management Course opens TODAY at 11:00 am! MPIBA member stores, use code MPIBAim for a $35 discount off tuition. NOTE: MPIBA provides financial support to the Professional Booksellers School, and will reimburse our bookstore members for course tuition for...
From the ABA: James Patterson is once again supporting independent booksellers with a revival of his Holiday Bookstore Bonus Program. Patterson has pledged a personal contribution of $250,000, to be distributed in amounts of $500, to 500 booksellers from ABA member bookstores. Nominations Booksellers can...
Join Andy Hunter, founder and CEO of Bookshop.org, for a session on optimizing your e-commerce -- no matter which website you use to sell books on-line. JOIN THE ZOOM PRESENTATION (Meeting ID: 827 6987 8056)
Enrollment for the Professional Booksellers School Event Management Course opens TODAY at 11:00 am! MPIBA member stores, use code MPIBAim for a $35 discount off tuition. NOTE: MPIBA provides financial support to the Professional Booksellers School, and will reimburse our bookstore members for course tuition for...
PLAID FRIDAY celebrates the diversity and creativity of local and independent businesses. It’s a fun and enjoyable alternative to the big box store “Black Friday” consumer frenzy. Also, it’s a way to show your support for our local economy. So plan to wear PLAID the...
Indies First is a national campaign of activities and events in support of independent bookstores, is held every year in conjunction with Small Business Saturday, the Saturday after Thanksgiving. This year, author Celeste Ng is serving as the 2022 spokesperson for Indies First! Indies First...
That’s not a typo! Instead of Cyber Monday, a day when online merchants offer special deals, we invite you to a new tradition, CIDER MONDAY. Willard Williams of the Toadstool Bookshops in Keene, Peterborough, and Nashua, NH dreamed up this event as an antidote to Cyber Monday....
One Day. Fifty States. Hundreds Of Bookstores. JOIN US FOR THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY! This national one-day party held the last Saturday in April celebrates independent bookstores across the country online and in-store. Through exclusive books and literary items, contests, cupcakes, and everything in between, it’s...
If only there was a holiday all about gifting books…Luckily, Iceland has this covered with Jólabókaflóð! How do you pronounce Jólabókaflóð? Yo-la-bok-a-flot. In Icelandic, it roughly translates to “flood of books.” READ ALL ABOUT IT