Holiday Catalog for Websites: Instructions

Instructions are now available for IndieCommerce stores that want to link the holiday catalog to their websites. Catalog pages are mobile-friendly, and non IndieCommerce stores can choose to have their catalogs hosted on their own website or hosted by SIBA.

TITLE LIST: Spreadsheet | Edelweiss

CATALOG ON PDF:  Cover 1 | Cover 2

MOBILE FRIENDLY HTML CATALOG INSTRUCTIONS

• IndieCommerce Stores: IndieCommerce and IndieLite stores can link to the holiday catalog by appending this their website URL: "/holiday/SIBA/holidaycatalog.html"
  
  For example, if Fountain Bookstore wants to link the catalog to their site, it would be
  https://www.fountainbookstore.com/holiday/SIBA/holidaycatalog.html
  
  When customers click on the 'Buy this Book' button on the catalog, they will be taken to Fountain's website to purchase the book.
  
  
• Stores with other e-commerce: SIBA has created a single mobile-friendly catalog page, with a place for your own store logo: online sample. Email nicki@sibaweb.com
  
  
• Stores without ecommerce:
  SIBA can provide a no-link verson of the html catalog for you to include on your website(s). Email nicki@sibaweb.com

Order "Book Life" trucker caps, t-shirts, and more for holiday gift sales! 

From the fine folks of Independent Bookstore Day, order “Book Life” trucker caps for those customers who love all things literary, especially when it comes in the form of a stylish cap! They’re available in bundles of 5 for $60, with free shipping, Order by MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5

Book Life tees and sweatshirts are also available in a variety of sizes and styles. Order here!

My Love Affair with the Stacks
by Diane Chamberlain

“Why do you always pick books that no one else ever reads?”

That’s what my sister’s husband asked me when I, still in high school, came home from the library with four books I’d carefully selected from my public library. I still remember the books: Reynolds Price’s A Long and Happy Life, Sinclair Lewis’s Kingsblood Royal, Joanne Greenberg’s brand new I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, and a fourth book I’ll mention later. I wasn’t bothered by my brother-in-law’s question. One of my favorite things to do was to rove through the fiction stacks at my public library to see what jumped out at me. Yes, I also read the books all my friends were reading, but when it came to fiction, I was always hungry for more than just the bestsellers.

Why did I pick those books? I’d never heard of Reynolds Price—and in retrospect, I’m surprised his first novel was in my New Jersey library—but he looked kind of sexy on the back cover and I liked that his protagonist was a teenaged girl. That was enough for me, and reading A Long and Happy Life turned me into a lifelong Price fan intrigued with southern fiction.

As for Sinclair Lewis, I’d read Arrowsmith and Main Street in my English class and I was utterly smitten by Lewis’s writing and the social values expressed in his stories. Kingsblood Royal actually became my favorite of his many books. In it, Lewis’s 1940’s protagonist is a white man who learns he is 1/32nd black. The knowledge changes his sense of self as he begins exploring the black culture of the day with new eyes. Growing up in a well-integrated town during the civil rights era, I was fascinated by this story and it gave me much to think about as my treasured hometown endured riots and unrest.

I picked up I Never Promised You a Rose Garden before the book took off and long before it was made into a movie. I was a ‘troubled teen’ at the time (are there untroubled teens?). I was drawn in by the story of a sixteen-year-old girl fighting her psychological demons. It’s a book that will always stay with me.

"One of my favorite things to do is to wander without direction through the nonfiction stacks to see what books jump out at me."

The stacks, both in the library and in bookstores, have played a role in many of the books I’ve written as well. In a way, they’ve been my brainstorming buddies. One of my favorite things to do is to wander without direction through the nonfiction stacks to see what books jump out at me. Years ago, for example, I stumbled across a book about the CIA mind control experiments performed on psychiatric patients during the fifties.  I sat in a corner of the library, devouring that book, as the idea for my novel Breaking the Silence began to take shape in my mind. That was only one of my books that found its inspiration in the stacks.

When I research my books, I turn often to the Internet for help of course, but I also visit my library and two of my favorite Indies, Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh, North Carolina and Quarter Moon Books in Topsail Beach. Since more than half of my twenty-six books are set in North Carolina, there is no place like the local stacks to find the esoteric North Carolina information I need to fuel my stories.

What was the fourth book I picked up at the library that day long ago? It was a small book by Helen Perlman, the 1962 edition of So You Want to be a Social Worker. Although I longed to be a writer, it never occurred to me that I’d be able to support myself with a writing career, so yes, I became a social worker. A social worker who spent time in the stacks, thinking and dreaming. Just as I do today.

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Diane Chamberlain is the New York Times, USA Today and Sunday Timesbestselling author of 26 novels published in more than twenty languages. Influenced by her former career as a social worker and psychotherapist, she writes suspenseful stories that touch both heart and mind. Her most recent book, The Dream Daughter, was just released in October, 2018 and is a SIBA Okra Pick.

Publisher Promotion Offers, courtesy of NAIBA

The New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association, NAIBA, has given SIBA permission to pass along their weekly list of publisher promotion offers. The program was created by NAIBA as a way to get special deals in front of the booksellers at the time they are placing orders. NAIBA compiles on-going specials into a spreadsheet that is updated and shared every Monday morning:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RsqvM9tKfu8Yqc5euj60jLLC2hVHE6IcURUfje50BFE/edit?usp=sharing

SIBA will include the link at the top of their weekly newsletter to booksellers, "In the Land of SIBA."

Source of Income for Bookstores

If you haven't signed up for DartFrog, now's a great chance. In addition to a guaranteed quarterly stipend, DartFrog is launching a new program that will pay your store $500 every time you refer an author whose manuscript is accepted for publication through DartFrog's new hybrid publishing program. 

The Love Your Bookstore Challenge! 

There’s a new retail holiday celebrating brick and mortar bookstores! It’s Love Your Bookstore, taking place from Saturday, November 10 to Friday, November 16.

This holiday comes with a challenge: during “Love Your Bookstore” week, readers visit their favorite bookstores and take a picture of the book they’re most excited to gift this holiday season. They must post their photo on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter sometime during November 10-16 with the hashtag #loveyourbookstore to be entered to win bookish prizes. The list of prizes is fantastic, and growing as more sponsors join in.

Booksellers can promote the #loveyourbookstore challenge to customers, and involve their local authors and publishers to spread the word through social media. Here’s a link to resources for booksellers to assist in promotions. Raise awareness of the “Love Your Bookstore” holiday in your community and boost an event that celebrates you!!

One of the founding members of this holiday is Dominique Raccah, publisher and CEO of Sourcebooks. She says, “Bookstores are amazing and important places for us all culturally, and we know that booksellers help readers discover and share the magic of books. They create communities of readers that make a difference because books change lives. We want to give everyone a way to celebrate their favorite bookstore.”

Call for EUREKAsiba Presenters!

Want to mark this off your bucket list?  Dream of presenting a TED-style talk on an innovative solution you've created.  We want you!  

Items for any potential  EUREKAsiba  bookseller to consider:  Talks need to be between 11 and 18 minutes, and cannot go over time.  In developing your idea, write your idea down in one or two sentences. Ask yourself three questions: Is my idea new? Are you telling people something you're pretty sure they have not heard before? Is it interesting? Think about how your idea might apply to a room full of varied kinds of people. Who might be interested in it? Is it factual and realistic? If you are presenting new research, make sure your idea is backed by data and peer reviewed. If you are presenting a  call  to action, make sure it can be executed by members of your audience. If you answered “no” to any of these questions, refine your idea. Ask someone you respect who doesn’t work in your field, and if they answer “no” to any of these questions, refine your idea.

Here is a good structure for your talk.

 1. Start by making your audience care, using a relatable example or an intriguing idea. 
 2. Explain your idea clearly and with conviction. 
 3. Describe your evidence and how and why your idea could be implemented. 
 4. End by addressing how your idea could affect your audience if they were to accept it.

 And a few links to consider if you'd like:

http://speakupforsuccess.com/how-are-ted-talks-and-business-presentations-different/

https://storage.ted.com/tedx/m anuals/tedx_speaker_guide.pdf
 
https://www.ted.com/talks/nanc y_duarte_the_secret_structure_ of_great_talks

Publisher Promotions Week of 10/15

PUBLISHER:  Abrams

PROMO NAME:  Backlist special

PROMO DETAILS:  Backlist Special: 25+ books = +4%; 50+ books = +6%.  All books published before 12/31/17 qualify. Returnable and Non-Returnable accounts are eligible.

PROMO CODE:  BACK18

PROMO LINK: 

EXPIRES:  12/31/2018

PUBLISHER:  Abrams

PROMO NAME:  Backlist Special

PROMO DETAILS:  Backlist Special: 25+ books = +4%; 50+ books = +6%.  120 Days Dating. All books published before 12/31/17 qualify. Returnable and Non-Returnable accounts are eligible.

PROMO CODE:  BACK18

PROMO LINK: 

EXPIRES:  12/31/2018

PUBLISHER:  Abrams

PROMO NAME:  Display special

PROMO DETAILS:  All displays receive 50% Returnable/52% Non-Returnable

PROMO CODE:  None

PROMO LINK: 

EXPIRES: 

PUBLISHER:  Abrams

PROMO NAME:  Noterie special

PROMO DETAILS:  Noterie Special: 5 of each title = 55% returnable/56% non-returnable

( Thinking of You: Bouquet in a Book 9781419729553, Happy Day: Bouquet in a Book 9781419729546, Molly Hatch Notecards 9781419729584, Watercolor Workshop Notecards 9781419729232, Brave Birds Notecards 9781419729744)

PROMO CODE: 

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PUBLISHER:  Abrams

PROMO NAME:  Ada Twist Carton Quantity Offer

PROMO DETAILS:  Ada Twist Carton Quantity Offer: 50% returnable/52% Non-returnable on 24-copy mixed carton (9781419731167).  Includes four of each of the following:  Iggy Peck, Architect; Rosie Revere, Engineer; Ada Twist, Scientist; Iggy Peck’s Big Project Book for Amazing Architects; Rosie Revere’s Big Project Book for Bold Engineers; Ada Twist’s Big Project Book for Stellar Scientists.

PROMO CODE: 

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PUBLISHER:  Abrams

PROMO NAME:  Diary of a Wimpy Kid 32-Copy Carton Offer

PROMO DETAILS:  Diary of a Wimpy Kid 32-Copy Carton Offer:  50% returnable retailer/51% RDC/52% Non-returnable retailer.  Carton Offer ISBN 9781419736483. 32-copy floor display ISBN 9781419734762

PROMO CODE: 

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PUBLISHER:  Abrams

PROMO NAME:  Noterie Special

PROMO DETAILS:  Noterie Special: 5+ of each title = 55% RET/57% N/R (Quotes to Smoke 9781419732546, Read Harder 9781419732553, Make Blackout Poetry 9781419732492, Cute Kawaii Doodles 9781419732423)

PROMO CODE: 

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PUBLISHER:  Abrams

PROMO NAME:  Carton Offers

PROMO DETAILS:  Carton Offers: 60% Discount:

o        Terrible Two – 36 copy mixed carton ( 8 each Terrible Two #1-#3 (PB) 12 Terrible Two #4 (New HC) 9781419735547

o        Frank Einstein – 48 copy mixed carton (8 each Frank Einstein #1-#5 (PB), 8 Frank Einstein #6 (New HC) 9781419735554

PROMO CODE: 

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PUBLISHER:  ACC

PROMO NAME:  Spring 2018 Extra Discount Promo

PROMO DETAILS:  10+ book assorted titles, new and backlist = +5% discount.  Multiple orders accepted. Valid for all in print and NYP titles except for Archetype, Archivia, Floating World and M Shafik Gabr.

PROMO CODE:  Code: ACC2018A (Returnable Accounts), ACC2018B (Non-Returnable Accounts).

PROMO LINK: 

EXPIRES:  12/31/2018

PUBLISHER:  ACC

PROMO NAME:  Fall 2018 Extra Discount or Free Freight Promo

PROMO DETAILS:  Fall 2018 Extra Discount or Free Freight Promo: 10+ book assorted titles, new and backlist = +5% discount or Free Freight.  Extra Discount Code: ACC2018A (RET), ACC2018B (N/R). Free Freight Code: ACCRTS18FF (RET), ACCNRS18FF (N/R) Multiple orders accepted. Valid for all in print and NYP titles except for Archetype, Archivia, Floating World and M Shafik Gabr.

PROMO CODE: 

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EXPIRES:  12/31/2018

PUBLISHER:  Amber Lotus

PROMO NAME:  Calendar Rack Program

PROMO DETAILS:  Calendar Rack Program: 16- Pocket floor display, white (Ht. 64”/Dia. 22”): $115 + shipping; offset = 12 free calendars (single title, your choice) with a minimum purchase of 96 calendars.

PROMO CODE: 

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PUBLISHER:  Arte

PROMO NAME:  Rep Special

PROMO DETAILS:  Rep Special: Order a minimum of 5 books and receive a 46% discount. Order a minimum of 10 books and receive Free Freight on that order.  Orders must be marked “Rep Free Freight Offer.” One order only.

PROMO CODE: 

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PUBLISHER:  Arte Publico Press

PROMO NAME:  Rep Special

PROMO DETAILS:  Rep Special: Order a minimum of 5 books and receive a 46% discount. Order a minimum of 10 books and receive Free Freight on that order.  Orders must be marked “Rep Free Freight Offer.” One order only.

PROMO CODE:  Rep Free Freight Offer

PROMO LINK: 

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PUBLISHER:  Baker & Taylor

PROMO NAME:  Regional Holiday Catalog Promotion

PROMO DETAILS:  45% discount on all regional holiday catalog titles through December 1. No limit to the number of times you can order. No promo code needed.

PROMO CODE: 

PROMO LINK:  http://indie.baker-taylor.com/

EXPIRES:  12/1/2018

PUBLISHER:  Barron's Educational Series, Inc.

PROMO NAME:  Barron's Halloween Special Offer

PROMO DETAILS:  FREE FREIGHT on 15 assorted books! For a list of titles included in this promotion, please refer to the Promotion Link.

PROMO CODE:  HAL18FF

PROMO LINK:  http://barronsbooks.com/cat/SPECIALS/HAL18FF.pdf

EXPIRES:  9/30/2018

PUBLISHER:  Barron's Educational Series, Inc.

PROMO NAME:  Barron's Christmas Gift Ideas for Kids - Special Offer

PROMO DETAILS:  FREE FREIGHT on 15 assorted books.  For additional information and a list of titles included in this promotion, please see the promotion link.

PROMO CODE:  XMAS18FF

PROMO LINK:  http://barronsbooks.com/cat/SPECIALS/XMAS18FF_JUV.pdf

EXPIRES:  11/15/2018

PUBLISHER:  Barron's Educational Series, Inc.

PROMO NAME:  Barron's Christmas & Hanukkah Gift Ideas Special Offer

PROMO DETAILS:  FREE FREIGHT on 15 assorted books.  Please see the promotion link for additional information and all titles included in this promotion.

PROMO CODE:  XMASA18FF

PROMO LINK:  http://barronsbooks.com/cat/SPECIALS/XMASA18FF.pdf

EXPIRES:  11/15/2018

PUBLISHER:  Beckett

PROMO NAME:  New Incentive Program

PROMO DETAILS:  New Incentive Program: 44% and free freight with minimum of 5 books, any book. 47% and free freight with a minimum of 10 books, any book.

PROMO CODE: 

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PUBLISHER:  Boydell and Brewer

PROMO NAME:  Rep Special

PROMO DETAILS:  +5% and Free Freight on one order per season.  No minimum.

PROMO CODE:  BB345

PROMO LINK: 

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PUBLISHER:  Boydell& Brewer

PROMO NAME:  Rep Special

PROMO DETAILS:  Rep Special: +5% and FF on one order per season.  No minimum.

PROMO CODE:  BB345

PROMO LINK: 

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PUBLISHER:  Candlewick

PROMO NAME:  Indies Introduce Debut Authors Special Offer

PROMO DETAILS:  Indies Introduce Debut Authors Special Offer:  Order 5+ copies of Speechless (9781536200928) and receive +10% discount.

PROMO CODE:  ECT (EDI code: RCP029)

PROMO LINK: 

EXPIRES:  11/1/2018

PUBLISHER:  Candlewick

PROMO NAME:  Backlist Stock Offer

PROMO DETAILS:  Backlist Stock Offer: Order a minimum of 50 assorted backlist units spread over a minimum of 10 titles and receive 50%, FF and 90 days dating.  Returnable retailers only.  One order only.  Only books published prior to 9/1/18 are eligible.

PROMO CODE:  ECK (EDI Code: RCP024)

PROMO LINK: 

EXPIRES:  11/15/2018

PUBLISHER:  Candlewick

PROMO NAME:  Fall Backlist Christmas Classics Offer

PROMO DETAILS:  Fall Backlist Christmas Classics Offer:  Order a minimum of 10 assorted copies from the following titles and earn an extra 5% discount.  (Red and Lulu 9780763677336, Walk this World at Christmastime 9780763689216, Fa La La 9780763632472, Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey 9780763678227, A Christmas for Bear 9780763649234)

PROMO CODE:  ECW (EDI code RCP032)

PROMO LINK: 

EXPIRES:  12/15/2018

PUBLISHER:  Candlewick

PROMO NAME:  Fall 2018 CHIRP Offer

PROMO DETAILS:  Fall 2018 CHIRP Offer:  Order 20+ Fall ’18 CHIRP books (minimum 8 titles CHIRP Picks and Buyer’s Picks combined).  Receive 50% discount and 90 days dating on initial supporting order and on reorders of 20+ units.

PROMO CODE:  ECL (EDI Code: RCP013)

PROMO LINK: 

EXPIRES:  12/31/2018

PUBLISHER:  Candlewick

PROMO NAME:  Judy Moody 39-copy PB Reissues Floor Display Special

PROMO DETAILS:  Buy 2 Get 3rd Free consumer offer. (Retailers pay for 2/3 of the books in the display, 1/3 of the books in the display are free.) Display Retail $233.61.  Display net cost to bookstores $79.43. Display ISBN 9781536204964

PROMO CODE: 

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PUBLISHER:  Candlewick

PROMO NAME:  Louisiana’s Way Home 10-copy Floor Display Special

PROMO DETAILS:  Louisiana’s Way Home 10-copy Floor Display Special: 50% and 90 Days Dating.  Display ISBN 9781536207392.  Display retail: $169.90.  Contains 10 copies of Louisiana’s Way Home (9780763694630, $16.99).  Returnable Retailers Only.

PROMO CODE:  EC7 (EDI Code: RCP007)

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PUBLISHER:  Candlewick

PROMO NAME:  Beyond the Sixth Extinction Display Copy Offer

PROMO DETAILS:  Beyond the Sixth Extinction Display Copy Offer: Order a minimum of 4 copies per store location of Beyond the Sixth Extinction (9780763687885) and receive a free display copy (Limit one per store location on prepub orders only).  Must order through rep.

PROMO CODE: 

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PUBLISHER:  Chronicle

PROMO NAME:  Laurence King/Princeton Architectural Press Lowered Minimum Permanent Special

PROMO DETAILS:  Use promo code LKPA12U to take advantage of the 12 unit minimum. (LK and PAP combine).

PROMO CODE:  LKPA12U

PROMO LINK: 

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PUBLISHER:  David R. Godine Publisher Inc.

PROMO NAME:  Fall2018

PROMO DETAILS:  20+ assorted books with standard discounts and free freight

PROMO CODE:  Fall2018

PROMO LINK: 

EXPIRES:  10/31/2018

PUBLISHER:  Gibbs-Smith

PROMO NAME:  $150 Under-Minimum Special

PROMO DETAILS:  Gibbs-Smith will ship an order free freight if the total order is at least $150 NET.

PROMO CODE: 

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PUBLISHER:  Gibbs-Smith

PROMO NAME:  Fall 2018 Special

PROMO DETAILS:  Returnable Accounts: 20+ units = +2% and FF on books; 35+ units = +5%, FF and 90 day dating.  Non-Returnable Accounts: 20+ units = +2%, FF, and 60 days dating.  Gift product does not qualify for the extra discount but does contribute to the FF minimums. Multiple orders ok.

PROMO CODE: 

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PUBLISHER:  Gibbs-Smith

PROMO NAME:  150 Under-Minimum Special

PROMO DETAILS:  150 Under-Minimum Special: Gibbs-Smith will ship an order FF if the total order is at least $150 NET.

PROMO CODE: 

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PUBLISHER:  Kumon

PROMO NAME:  Fall 2018 Special

PROMO DETAILS:  Fall 2018 Special: Extra 5% discount off a one-time order of 25 or more mixed frontlist and backlist titles from July through December 2018.

PROMO CODE:  FALL18

PROMO LINK: 

EXPIRES:  12/31/2018

PUBLISHER:  Llewellyn

PROMO NAME:  Rep Special

PROMO DETAILS:  1 to 9 = 46%, customer pays freight.  10-24 = 48%, Free Freight (Code 2018REP48). 

25+ = 50%, Free Freight

PROMO CODE:  Code: 2018REP50

PROMO LINK: 

EXPIRES: 

PUBLISHER:  Llewellyn

PROMO NAME:  Fall 2018 Special

PROMO DETAILS:  10-24 = 48%, FF (Code 2018REP48). 25+ = 50%, FF

PROMO CODE:  2018REP50

PROMO LINK: 

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PUBLISHER:  Lonely Planet

PROMO NAME:  Frontlist Stocking Special

PROMO DETAILS:  3 or more of ANY title per store/location = 50% off. 5 or more of any title per store/ location = 52% off.

PROMO CODE: 

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PUBLISHER:  Quarto

PROMO NAME:  Clever Publishing Backlist Stock Offer

PROMO DETAILS:  Clever Publishing Backlist Stock Offer:  Order 5+ units and earn +3%.  Ask your rep for details.

PROMO CODE:  Clever18

PROMO LINK: 

EXPIRES:  12/31/2018

PUBLISHER:  Quarto

PROMO NAME:  Backlit Special

PROMO DETAILS:  Backlist Special: Order 25+ units including 10+ backlist units and receive 50%, FF.  Backlist is anything published before 9/1/2018.  Multiple orders ok.

PROMO CODE: 

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EXPIRES:  1/1/2019

PUBLISHER:  Quarto

PROMO NAME:  Rockpool Divination Deck Special

PROMO DETAILS:  Order 12+ assorted 2” X 4” Rockpool divination decks (Sweet Dreams 9781925682212, Star Seeds 9781925682229, Fortune Cookies 9781925429060, Aboriginal Dreaming Totems 978192568243) and receive 50%, FF on those titles.

PROMO CODE: 

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EXPIRES:  1/1/2019

PUBLISHER:  Quarto

PROMO NAME:  Backlist Stock Offer

PROMO DETAILS:  +5% on 20+ backlist units.

PROMO CODE:  Code SP2018BL

PROMO LINK: 

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PUBLISHER:  Quarto

PROMO NAME:  Frontlist Special

PROMO DETAILS:  Frontlist Special: Buy 4+ of any frontlist title and receive 50% on that title.

PROMO CODE: 

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PUBLISHER:  Red Wheel

PROMO NAME:  Frontlist Faceout Special

PROMO DETAILS:  Buy 4+ of any frontlist title and receive 50% on that title

PROMO CODE: 

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PUBLISHER:  Red Wheel

PROMO NAME:  Protest Kitchen Special

PROMO DETAILS:  Order 6+ copies of Protest Kitchen, ISBN 9781573247436, and receive 50%, FF on that title.

PROMO CODE: 

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EXPIRES:  1/1/2019

PUBLISHER:  SCB

PROMO NAME:  Fall 2018 Special

PROMO DETAILS:  50%, FF on 10+ frontlist and backlist units.  One order per ship-to per season

PROMO CODE: 

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PUBLISHER:  Schiffer

PROMO NAME:  Rep Special

PROMO DETAILS:  Rep Special: 45% discount and Free Freight (minimum order 5 units).  Add an additional 3% off entire order + Free Freight if 25+ additional backlist books are included in the order.

PROMO CODE: 

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PUBLISHER:  Schiffer

PROMO NAME:  Fall 2018 Special

PROMO DETAILS:  5+ = 45% and FF (Frontlist and Backlist), 25+ Backlist plus Frontlist = 48%, FF. One order per ship-to per

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PUBLISHER:  Simon & Schuster

PROMO NAME:  Indies Introduce

PROMO DETAILS:  Terms:

Effective Dates:               9/10/18 – 12/20/18

Dating:                              150 days dating

# of Orders:                      1

Minimum:                                       5 (per title)        

ELIGIBLE TITLES:

FALCONER          CZAPNIK, DANA               9781501193224              01/29/19            $25.00  ATRIA

QUEENIE            CARTY-WILLIAMS, CANDICE        9781501196010              03/19/19            $26.00  GALLERY

PROMO CODE:  Please ask your rep.

PROMO LINK: 

EXPIRES:  12/20/2018

PUBLISHER:  Simon & Schuster

PROMO NAME:  New Store Opening

PROMO DETAILS:  For new stores opening:

Terms:

Discount:        +3%

Dating: 150 days dating

Minimum:        100 units

# of Orders: 4

Promo Code: S0517 (Active)

Eligible Titles: All S&S wholly-owned and distributed titles are eligible.

Terms:

Discount:        +5%

Dating: 180 days dating

Minimum:         500 units

# of Orders: 4

Promo Code: S0516 (Active)

Eligible Titles:        All S&S wholly-owned and distributed titles are eligible.

PROMO CODE:  Promo Code: S0517

Promo Code: S0516

PROMO LINK: 

EXPIRES:  12/31/2018

PUBLISHER:  Simon & Schuster

PROMO NAME:  New Store Opening Promotion

PROMO DETAILS:  Terms:

Discount:                                        +3%

Dating:                                             150 days dating

Minimum:                                       100 units

# of Orders:                                    4

Eligible Titles:    All S&S wholly-owned and distributed titles are eligible.

Terms:

Discount:                                        +5%

Dating:                                             180 days dating

Minimum:                                       500 units

# of Orders:                                    4

Eligible Titles:    All S&S wholly-owned and distributed titles are eligible.

PROMO CODE:  Please ask your rep.

PROMO LINK: 

EXPIRES:  12/31/2018

PUBLISHER:  Simon & Schuster

PROMO NAME:  Indie Frontlist Promotion

PROMO DETAILS:  Terms:

Effective Dates:               8/27/18 – 11/30/18

# of Orders:                      Initial order only

Minimum:                        3 title minimum for Adult titles and/or

1 title minimum for Children’s titles

5 copies per title per ship to

Discount:                          +3%

Minimum:                        3 title minimum for Adult titles and/or

1 title minimum for Children’s titles

10 copies per title per ship to

Discount:                          +5%

ELIGIBLE TITLES:

Adult

WOLF AND THE WATCHMAN      NATT OCH DAG, NIKLAS               9781501196775               03/05/19            $27.00  ATRIA

ONCE UPON A RIVER      SETTERFIELD, DIANE       9780743298070              12/04/18            $28.00  ATRIA

WATCHING YOU              JEWELL, LISA      9781501190070              12/26/18            $26.00  ATRIA

LAST      JAMESON, HANNA          9781501198823               04/09/19              $26.00  ATRIA

YOU KNOW YOU WANT THIS      ROUPENIAN, KRISTEN              9781982101633               01/15/19            $26.00  GALLERY

QUEENIE            CARTY-WILLIAMS, CANDICE        9781501196010              03/19/19            $26.00  GALLERY

HER ONE MISTAKE          PERKS, HEIDI     9781501194221              01/08/19            $26.00  GALLERY

LOOKER              SIMS, LAURA      9781501199110               01/15/19              $25.00  SCRIBNER

STAY UP WITH HUGO BEST          SOMERS, ERIN   9781982102357              04/02/19            $26.00  SCRIBNER

HARK    LIPSYTE, SAM     9781501146060               01/15/19              $27.00  SIMON & SCHUSTER

TRIAL OF LIZZIE BORDEN              ROBERTSON, CARA              9781501168376               03/12/19            $28.00  SIMON & SCHUSTER

I MISS YOU WHEN I BLINK            PHILPOTT, MARY LAURA              9781982102807               04/02/19            $25.00  TOUCHSTONE

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REMARKABLE INVENTIONS OF WALTER MORTINSON       SOSNA-SPEAR, QUINN  9781534420809               04/02/19            $17.99  S&S BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS

SIZE OF THE TRUTH         SMITH, ANDREW             9781534419551              03/26/19            $17.99  S&S BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS

GIRLS WITH SHARP STICKS           YOUNG, SUZANNE              9781534426139               03/19/19            $18.99  SIMON PULSE

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Meet Megan Bell & Josh Niesse, co-owners of Underground Books and Hills & Hamlets Bookshop

Name:

Megan Bell & Josh Niesse 

Store and location:

Co-owners of Underground Books in Carrollton, GA and Hills & Hamlets Bookshop in Chattahoochee Hills, GA 

Number of years as a bookseller:

Megan full time 5 years; Josh full time 8 years

Best part about being a bookseller?:

Someone shared a Guardian piece in one of the bookseller groups this week titled “Bookselling is the most over-romanticized job in the world.” There were some good points in it, but overall we think we should be emphasizing the romance of bookselling. It IS romantic in many ways. It’s how we met (Megan came in the bookstore 2 weeks after Josh opened it and never left), eventually getting married and now co-owning the business. We have a deep love of books and reading and are grateful we’ve created careers for ourselves where we get to spend our days with books. Being more naturally introverted, retail customer service can be challenging at times, but having ongoing years-long conversations with regulars, seeing a child walk down our steps into the bookstore and say “WOW,” and any of the numerous beautiful bookstore moments that happen every day make it all worth it. 

What book(s) are you reading?: 

Megan: I’m a monogamous reader, and I alternate fiction and nonfiction. I just finished Rebecca Solnit’s new collection Call Them by Their True Names.  I’m currently reading the new ARC from Charlie Jane Anders, The City in the Middle of the Night, which I picked up at the SIBA Discovery Show. I’m a huge fan of Anders’ Nebula Award-winning debut, All the Birds in the Sky. It was a dream meeting her at SIBA!

Josh: I’m listening to Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine (Libro.fm has turned me into an audiobook addict!) and I’m just finishing reading Against Elections by David Van Reybrouck and getting ready to start an ARC of Black Leopard Red Wolf by Marlon James.

Favorite handsell of 2018:

Megan: First, We Make the Beast Beautiful by Sarah Wilson. This is a book I didn’t know I needed, and it’s been incredible to really feel I’m making a difference when I put this book in the hands of fellow readers struggling with anxiety. It’s a beautiful book inside and out.

Josh: So far this year I’ve been handselling Yuval Noah Harari’s books nonstop, but I’m currently really excited about a new memoir just out called Southern Discomfort by Tena Clark. Tena has such an incredible life story, and we have 75 tickets pre-sold to our event with her this Friday, October 12th.

Best thing you did this year at your store: 

We pulled off our first really large (for us, anyway) author event, hosting Rick Bragg in our city’s arts center auditorium and selling 200 copies of his newest book. Megan has also been having some major successes experimenting with creative social media videos and promotions that have really resonated with our customers and have helped us reach a huge new audience.

Social Media Stats (FB likes, Twitter followers, etc)

Underground Books

• Facebook: 6,400
• Instagram: 2,200
• twitter: 770
• Pinterest: 2,000 

Hills & Hamlets Bookshop

• Facebook: 1,000
• Instagram:  1,160

What are some ways you work with your community?

Community partnerships have been a major part of the success of our bookstores. Before opening our second location (Underground Books opened in 2011, Hills & Hamlets in 2016), we spent nearly a year meeting with neighborhood residents and community organizations and businesses. We partner with arts organizations at both locations, and Josh is on the board of the artist in residence program in the community where Hills & Hamlets resides (writers who have been through the residency program and signed books at our store this last year include Jason Reynolds, Sarah Kay, Eve Ewing, and Brendan Wenzel, among many others). Underground Books is closely allied with our local university and Hills & Hamlets with the local charter and Montessori schools. At Underground Books, we host an international literature book club sponsored and led by the University of West Georgia-they receive funds to buy the books from us, and we hand them out free to people who sign up for the club. We also host several book clubs, do pop-up bookselling booths at numerous community events, host various artist and writer receptions, donate ARCs and damaged books to our local jail, donate gift cards to most charitable organization requests, and so on. 

Do you have any community partners you work with regularly?

AIR Serenbe, Serenbe Playhouse, the University of West Georgia (see previous answer).

Do you have passions that carry over into your bookselling life?

We’re not sure there’s a difference between bookselling life and regular life for us! As co-owners of two bookstores we’re definitely on the clock most waking moments.

Megan: The bookstore has been a way to focus and sustain my creativity. Through the needs of our bookstore, I’ve discovered a passion for marketing, especially creating, directing, and editing videos, but also copywriting, social media photography, and managing campaigns. I love that through our social media, you can see on one hand a celebration of reading, learning, nerd culture, and the beauty of books and on the other hand pure silliness and unself-conscious fun that I hope gets across that reading is really for everyone.

Josh: My personal educational background and passions are philosophy and urban/town planning, and for 6 years out of college I worked in and then managed an AmeriCorps literacy tutoring program with youth-at-risk. Bookselling has been an amazing way to combine my intellectual passions with a kind of quiet/gentle community activism.

Top priority for 2018: We did over 100 events in 2017 between our two stores, and this is just the two of us and 4 part time employees. Like most bookstores, events have seemed like a way to try to add value and get people in the doors during a time when they can easily (and usually more cheaply) just get a book online from Amazon. We looked back on 2017 though and said to ourselves, “We’re killing ourselves doing so many events; is this sustainable?” We’ve really been scaling back and trying to focus on doing fewer events but doing them really well and making sure they are profitable. With the time we’re saving from fewer events we’ve been refocusing on our higher margin specialty of rare & antiquarian books. We’ve also been focusing on creating really great social media marketing that celebrates print, book collecting, and bookish culture in general. In terms of bookstore owners, we’re on the younger end of the spectrum, and we’re trying to take a long view. If we want to do this professionally for another 20-30 years, we need to be investing time in cultivating the next generation of serious book collectors and lovers of print media, and we try to let that view inform our marketing efforts.

Favorite SIBA programming benefit: Coming from a background in used & antiquarian books, we’ve been tip-toeing into SIBA and the ABA over the past few years. The trade shows and in-person gatherings have been amazing. Its hard to beat getting to spend time with other booksellers, sharing the joys and headaches of our business and learning directly from each other.  We’ve learned so much through SIBA’s eurekaSIBA event and, just recently, our first Discovery Show. We’ve also gone to the last two Winter Institutes and the most recent SIBA show inspired us to take the leap and commit to going to Albuquerque this year and make it 3 years in a row.

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Eat. Sleep. Read. Southern.

Breakfast with Einstein by Chad Orzel

BenBella Books | 9781946885357 | $16.95 | trade paperback | December 11, 2018 | science

Your alarm goes off, and you head to the kitchen to make yourself some toast and a cup of coffee. Little do you know, your ordinary morning routine depends on some of the weirdest phenomena ever discovered. In Breakfast with Einstein, Chad Orzel illuminates the surface of our regular lives by digging into the surprisingly complicated physics involved in our day-to-day. From the sun, alarm clocks, and the red glow of a toaster’s hot filaments to the chemistry of food aroma, a typical day is rich with examples of quantum oddities. Your ordinary mornings will never seem quite as ordinary again.

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The Positive Shift by Catherine Sanderson

BenBella Books | 9781946885449 | $17.95 | trade paperback | January 29, 2019 | psychology/self-help

It’s the reason why spending time on Facebook makes us feel sad and lonely. Why expensive name-brand medicines provide better pain relief than the generic stuff, even if they share the same ingredients. In The Positive Shift: Mastering Mindset to Improve Happiness, Health, and Longevity, Dr. Catherine Sanderson breaks down the science of thought and shows how our mindset—or thought pattern—exerts a substantial influence on our psychological and physical health. Most important, this book demonstrates how, no matter what our natural tendency, with practice we can make minor tweaks in our mindset that will improve the quality—and longevity—of our life.

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Mail to: susan@benbellabooks.com