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In times of change, the future of children's bookselling arguably lies in how stores have refined or reinterpreted longstanding programs, such as author events, book fairs, and subscription book boxes, [...]

DEI and DIY are among the themes of this season's offerings, which touch on subjects ranging from living a meaningful life to movement and sustainability. TOP 10 The Body Liberation [...]

Pass a Good Time with SIBA in New Orleans New Orleans, September 7-8 This day-and-a-half event gives booksellers a chance to network, learn bookselling tips, and meet authors across genres. [...]

PICTURE BOOKS Daniel Bernstrom A Bear, a Bee, and a Honey Tree, illus. by Brandon James Scott (Hippo Park, Nov. 1; $18; 35,000-copy announced first printing; ages 3-7) Why the [...]

LIKE THE BOOK INDUSTRY as a whole over the past 25 years, bookselling has undergone seismic changes. In 1996, chain stores, selling physical books in physical spaces, dominated adult book [...]

JAYNE ALLEN Black Girls Must Be Magic (Harper Perennial, Feb. 1; $16.99 trade paper; 150,000-copy announced first printing) Why the buzz: 'Black Girls Must Be Magic is the perfect follow-up [...]

At the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, many booksellers were forced to close their doors and shiftthe way they do business. Twoand a half years and three or more booster [...]

Like their publishing counterparts, most booksellers contacted by PW are pleased that nearly all the fall regional conferences and trade shows will be held in person, some for the first [...]

If these past two and a half years of Covid have taught people anything, it's to value their time together, and this year's in-person fall regional gatherings are designed to [...]

COMPILED BY JUDITH ROSEN Picture Books Jessixa Bagley Daisy (Holiday House/Porter; Mar. 2; $18.99; 25,000-copy announced first printing; ages 4-8) Why the buzz: 'Whether they are attending school in person [...]

COMPILED BY JUDITH ROSEN Among the many authors appearing at Wl 16 are 22-year-old inaugural poet Amanda Gorman, who will publish her first picture book and poetry collection, and Catherine [...]

In a year marked by a global pandemic and renewed social justice protests, it's not just publishers that have been forced to pivot. So too have the graduate programs that [...]

TOP 10 Bill Cunningham Was There: Spring Flings + Summer Soirees John Kurdewan and Steven Stolman. Rizzoli, Feb. 23 ($40, ISBN 978-0-8478-7003-5) Late New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham celebrates [...]

Every year, the ABA's Winter Institute hosts a panel of adult authors with spring debuts and a panel of middle grade and YA authors with spring debuts, with each panel [...]

New Voices New Rooms (SIBA and NAIBA) September 21-25 * SIBA and NAIBA's first joint fall show promises to be very full, with four tracks of programming--education, author events, publishers, [...]

At a particularly difficult moment in the book business, when, as Beth Ineson, executive director of the New England Independent Booksellers Association, says, 'booksellers are working five times as hard [...]

Tracy Deonn Legendbom S&S/McElderry, Sept.; $18.99; ages 14-up Why the buzz: 'With her debut novel, Tracy Deonn blends rich worldbuilding with thrilling action and romance, centering a Black girl in [...]

New ways of seeing art with an eye toward diversity and inclusivity are among this season's themes, along with reconsiderations of major artists. TOP 10 The 99% Invisible City: A [...]

Adult Blackstone On offer are galleys for a trio of 2020 debuts: Pale: A Novel by Edward A. Farmer, a tale of secrets and lies at a 1966 Mississippi cotton [...]

Picture Books Matthew Cordell Hello, Neighbor! The Kind and Caring World of Mister Rogers (Holiday House/Porter, May; $18.99; 100,000-copy first printing; ages 4-8) Why the buzz: 'Wtiting and illustrating a [...]

Adult Fiction Julia Alvarez Afterlife: A Novel (Algonquin, Apr.; $25.95; 100,000-copy first printing) Why the buzz: 'In her first adult novel in almost 15 years, bestselling author Julia Alvarez gives [...]

The Earth, social justice, fashion, and underrepresented artists are the subject of many of next season's offerings. TOP 10 Anne Brigman: The Photographer of Enchantment Kathleen Pyne. Yale Univ., June [...]

Former Tattered Cover owner Joyce Meskis, who died December 22 at age 80, is being remembered not only as a pioneer in bookselling circles but as a staunch supporter of [...]

Akashic Books Fuck, Now There Are Two of You Adam Mansbach, illus. by Owen Brozman (Oct., $15.95, hardcover) First printing: 100,000 Publicity & marketing highlights: Author events: drive-time radio tour; [...]

Bookselling, once seen--at least by some--as a second-career opportunity for people entering retirement, has all but flipped into a notably more youthful profession. Beth Ineson, executive director of the New [...]

There's nothing like the excitement of opening a special gift each month. That's part of the appeal of subscription boxes, whether they're for makeup, fashion, books, or even a pet. [...]

Cece Bell Chick and Brain: Smell My Foot! Candlewick, Sept.; $12.99 hardcover; ages 4-8 Why the buzz: 'What I love most about Cece Bell's latest is that not only is [...]

While Etsy Wholesale, which launched in 2014 and closed four years later, may have been the first online wholesaler for small businesses, Faire is the largest online B2B marketplace and [...]

'It's a strange new world of bookselling,' says Cynthia Compton, the owner of 4 Kids Books and Toys in Carmel, Ind., and a PW blogger, whose store pivoted to curbside [...]

As Maureen Karb, head of Como Sales, wrote in her nominating letter for 16-year-old Porter Square Books in the Porter Square Shopping Center in Cambridge, Mass., 'Since buying the store [...]

Last month, when PW talked with publishers about the possibility of an inperson, industrywide spring conference to replace BookExpo, one publisher, speaking I anonymously, noted: 'The opportunities for account-facing 1 [...]

Excitement has been building for 2022's Children's Institute in Phoenix, especially after the previous two conferences slated for the Grand Canyon State were forced to move online and this year's [...]

In September, the New England Independent Booksellers Association held a panel at its fall trade show that addressed bookseller activism in today's political climate. In the intervening weeks, the midterm [...]

Archipelago My Struggle: Book Six Karl Ove Knausgaard, trans, from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett and Martin Aitkin (Sept., $33, hardcover) First printing: 15,000 Publicity & marketing plans: Three-city tour, [...]

SIBA Discovery Show (Sept. 13-15) The Innisbrook Resort in Tampa, Fla. * This year's Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance trade show is set at a golf resort, but don't expect any [...]

Though May's BookExpo was 'reimagined' and the National Association of College Stores is rebooting its annual Camex show, most regional associations are planning to make only minor tweaks to their [...]

Jonathan Auxier Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster Amulet, Sept.; $18.99, hardcover Publicity plans: Author tour; prepub buzz campaign; prepub author appearances; national publicity campaign; online and [...]

Mallika Chopra Teaching kids how to reduce stress After the publication of her memoir, Living with Intent: My Somewhat Messy Journey to Purpose, Peace, and Joy (2015), Mallika Chopra was [...]

This year American agents will be carrying bags filled with literary debuts as well as works by best-selling authors. Among the notable titles that will be talked up in the [...]

ADULT FICTION Men and Apparitions Lynne Tillman Soft Skull, Mar. $16.95 paperback Why the buzz: 'Lynne Tillman, a beloved author/critic who is also an NBCC Finalist and a Guggenheim recipient, [...]

If publishing imprints were people, 10-year-oldTriangleSquare BooksforYoung Readers would be Seven Stories' Mini-Me.Theconcept for an activist children's line parallels the adult division, with books for'skeptical young readers.' The resultingtitles have [...]

WhenCamex.the annual trade show and educational conference of the National Association of College Stores, opens in San Antonio, Tex., on February 22, it will be shorter and more focused on [...]

This year, the American Booksellers Association 's 14th annual Winter Institute, its premier educational conference, promises ro be its biggest yet. The four-day gathering (January 22-25), which outgrew its traditional [...]

SIBA Discovery Show (Sept. 15-17) The Sheraton in New Orleans * The Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance will kick off the day before its official start date with an American Booksellers [...]

Despite new challenges from Amazon--which completed its purchase of Whole Foods last week and recently opened three more bricks-and-mortar bookstores, making a total of 11--and other turbulence in the retail [...]

Books from independent presses and university presses continue to offer some of the most exciting writing available today. These houses are not afraid to publish works in translation; to offer [...]

The Possible Tara Altebrando Bloomsbury, June; $17.99, hardcover First printing; 40,000 Publicity plans: Boldly Bookish group author tour (with Brigid Kemmerer, Emery Lord, and Sarah Tolscer) and social media promotion; [...]

PW's reviews editors have selected some of the most notable adult and children's authors to meet at this year's Winter Institute Adult American War Omar El Akkad Knopf, Apr. $26.95 [...]

With last month's purchase of U.K.based United Independent Distributors (which includes the distributor Eurospan and several distribution centers), Chicago's Independent Publishers Group doubled in size and added a 106,000-squarefoot, nine-pallet-high [...]

As the Booksource nears the end of its first half century--it turns 45 in January--the wholesaler has no regrets about its decision in 2005 to focus on its school and [...]