Archive for Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for the book trade

• Penguin Random House Australia Buying Text Publishing
• Bookstore Weddings: Linked Love Stories at Readers Books
• Attainment: New Titles Out Next Week
• This Weekend on Book TV: Gary Marcus on Taming Silicon Valley
• Ned Rust Leaving James Patterson Books; Samantha Smith Joining as V-P, Publisher
• Obituary Note: Jules Feiffer
• Awards: Audie, Edgar Finalists
• Baker & Taylor Publisher Services Adds Six Publisher Clients
• Book Trailer of the Day: The Many Lives of Anne Frank
• Media Heat: Rebecca Yarros on Good Morning America
• Personnel Changes at Nosy Crow; Feminist Press
• IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites
• Review: Show Don't Tell: Stories
• Change of Ownership for The Bookstore, Pine City, Minn.
• Grand Opening Set for Next Page Book Store, Morris, Ill.
• Indie Bookstores: 'A Place that I Call Home for Myself'
• Authors for LA Sets Auction and Telethon to Aid the American Red Cross
• Books Inc. Files for Chapter 11 Reorganization
• Bookstore Moment: Snow in NoLa!
• TV: Miss Austen
• Jupiter's Eye Book Cafe Opens in Spokane, Wash.
• Friendly City Books, Columbus, Miss, Hosts Grand Reopening
• Awards: Jewish Fiction Winner
• Personnel Changes at Podium Entertainment
• Media Heat: Andrea Dunlop, Mike Weber on Tamron Hall
• International Update: French Book Sales Fell 3% in 2024; 'Another Good Year' for Aussie Booksellers
• Reading with... Edward Underhill
• Children's Review: Papilio
• Top Book Club Picks in 2024
• Book Trailer of the Day: The Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Skills Workbook
• Image of the Day: People the Planet Needs Now at Black Garnet Books
• Image of the Day: Scuppernong's Point of Contact
• Sourcebooks' New Internal Indie Sales Force
• TV: Silo Season 3 
• Southern California Wildfires: Crowdfunding for Three Booksellers Who Lost Their Homes
• More Than a Thousand Midnight Release Parties for Onyx Storm
• Top-Selling Self-Published Titles
• Michael Taeckens: PR Whiz Now a Literary Agent, Too
• Special Bookseller Moment: High Five Books
• Review: Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend
• Longleaf Services Adds Three Publishers
• Media Heat: Naomi Watts on Today, Live with Kelly and Mark
• B&N Closes Location in San Jose, Calif.
• Awards: The Novel Prize Shortlist
• Grand Opening Saturday for Emerald & Amethyst Books, Lexington, Ill., This Saturday
• Movies: Changer L'Eau des Fleurs (Fresh Water for Flowers)
• Bisbee Books & Music, Bisbee, Ariz., Gets New Owners
• Awards: Republic of Consciousness, U.S. & Canada Longlist
• The King Holiday
• Wildfire Update: Binc's Matching Gift Pool Increases; More Indies Offer Support
• Bookseller Cat: Booker T at Wild Rumpus Books
• Robert Gray: Book Biz Predictions 2025: 'Hold Onto Your Hats'
• Harlequin Merging Imprints
• Personnel Changes at Scholastic; Kensington
• BincTank Second Cohort Announced
• Verb Bookstore and Café, Jonesboro, Ark., Reopens in New Space 
• Image of the Day: It Takes Chutzpah at the Strand
• Chalkboard: From My Shelf Books & Gifts
• Book Trailer of the Day: Activating Our 12-Stranded DNA
• Reading with... Samantha Sotto Yambao
• Review: A House for Miss Pauline
• Half Price Books Closing Location in Austin, Tex.
• Brooklyn's Books Are Magic Loves LA
• IPG Creates Christian Publisher Program, Adds Four Publishers
• Image of the Day: Lovestruck Books Hosts Preview Party
• Chalkboard: 2 Dandelions Bookshop
• Attainment: New Titles Out Next Week
• Obituary Note: Carole Gerber
• The Story Book Cottage Is Open in Greenbrier, Tenn.
• Personnel Changes at Phaidon; HarperCollins
• Neil Gaiman Accused of Long History of Sexual Assault
• MWA Names Grand Master, Ellery Queen Winners; Raven Goes to Face in a Book Bookstore & Gifts
• Media Heat: Pagan Kennedy on Fresh Air
• Book Trailer of the Day: Sharks Unhooked
• IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites
• Binc Opens Applications for Denver Publishing Institute Scholarship
• Review: Leave: A Postpartum Account
• Obituary Note: Nathalie Dupree
• Fresno's Judging by the Cover--A Bookstore Launches Fundraiser
• Image of the Day: Elizabeth Harris at McNally Jackson
• Diamond Comic Distributors Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
• TV: Eva the Owlet
• Awards: Nero Book Category Winners
• Ingram's Two Rivers to Distribute TDM Publishing
• Media Heat: Pico Iyer on Fresh Air
• Personnel Changes at HarperCollins; Abrams; University of Georgia Press
• Book Trailer of the Day: A Cat Like That
• International Update: Number of U.K. Indie Bookshops Down Slightly; German Book Sales Increase in 2024
• Petals & Pages to Open in Custer, S.Dak
• Reading with... Pagan Kennedy
• YA Review: (S)Kin
• Bookseller Moment: Comma, a Bookshop
• Obituary Note: Bruce Joshua Miller
• NFL Handselling: Eagles Player Makes Book a Bestseller
• Movies: The Performance
• Awards: T.S. Eliot Winner
• Wildfire Update: Binc Announces $45,000 Matching Gift; Zibby's Bookshop Organizing Clothes and Book Giveaways
• Top-Selling Self-Published Titles
• Bluestone Books Launched
• Personnel Changes at Holt; Random House Worlds
• Media Heat: Brooke Shields on the Kelly Clarkson Show
• Review: The Café with No Name
• Bookshop Marriage Proposal: Subterranean Books
• Book Trailer of the Day: The Art of Embroidery Design
• Books-A-Million Closing Waynesboro, Va., Store
• The Cranford Bookstore, Cranford, N.J., Looking for Permanent Home
• The Spicy Librarian Coming to Denver, Colo.
• At Brentwood's Diesel Bookstore: 'Gratitude, Relief, Reassurance'
• Media Heat: Josh Gad on Today, Colbert's Late Show, the View
• Review: Snowy Day and Other Stories
• Awards: Philip K. Dick Nominees; Story Prize Finalists
• Bookshop Mural: Porter Square Books
• Southern California Wildfires: Bookstores Respond
• Philomena Polefrone Promoted to Associate Director, ABFE
• Movies: In the Lost Lands
• Obituary Note: Barry Malzberg 
• Book Trailer of the Day: The Psychosis Workbook
• 'Take Care of Your Delivery People'
• B&N's January Book Club Pick: The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus
• The Little Nook Bookstore Opens in Wading River, N.Y.
• Image of the Day: Octavia's Bookshelf, Pasadena, Calif., 'Mutual Aid Pit Stop'
• Bookshop.org Matching Binc Donations to Help Booksellers Affected by Wildfires
• Movies: The Partner
• Read with Jenna Book Club Pick
• Bookseller Snow Day Moment: Bookish
• Crown Launching Storehouse Voices Imprint
• Romance-Landia Bookstore Opens in Centreville, Md.
• Personnel Changes at S&S Publisher Services; Berkley
• The Imaginary Bookshop, Greenfield, Mass., to Close
• Robert Gray: What I Read on My Winter Vacation
• Bookshop Chalk Art: Doylestown Bookshop
• Obituary Note: Martin Palmer
• Awards: Crook's Corner Winner
• International Update: BA Warns of Challenging Year for Booksellers; Filéas Book Tracking System in France
• Reading with... Elizabeth Harris
• Review: Maya & Natasha
• Obituary Note: Joseph Monninger
• Attainment: New Titles Out Next Week
• Media Heat: Jimmy Carter Interview Selections on Fresh Air
• Books-A-Million Opens New Store in San Marcos, Tex.
• This Weekend on Book TV: Malcolm Gladwell
• Pages Bookshop, Detroit, Mich., to Close
• Awards: Pacific Northwest Book Winners
• B&N: New Store in Bellevue, Wash.; 60 Openings Planned for 2025
• Bookstore Marriage Proposal: Anthology for Books
• Personnel Changes at Abrams; Grand Central
• Book Trailer of the Day: The Mother
• Macmillan Selling & Distributing Darrington Press
• Nook & Cranny Books, Seattle, Wash., Looking for New Home
• IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites
• Review: Hungerstone
• The Book Club Opening in Mission, Kan.
• Movies: The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion
• Snowy Bookseller Moment: Whistlestop Bookshop
• Reese's January Book Club Pick: The Three Lives of Cate Kay
• Oprah's Book Club Pick: A New Earth
• Obituary Note: Andrew Pyper
• HarperCollins Holland Acquiring Lifestyle Imprints from Gottmer
• Baker & Taylor Publisher Services to Sell & Distribute Guideposts
• Awards: Arabic Fiction Longlist
• Serendipity Books, Chelsea, Mich., to Relocate
• Binc Adds Three Board Members
• Media Heat: James Longman on the View, Live with Kelly and Mark
• Personnel Changes at Crown Currency; Scribner; Dutton, Plume & Tiny Reparations Books
• Libro.fm Bestsellers in December
• Reading with... Keenan Jones
• Children's Review: What Makes a Bird?
• Quarter Moon Books, Topsail Beach, N.C., Closes
• Chalkboard: Schuler Books
• TV: Lights, Camera, Action at Market Block Books in Troy, N.Y. 
• Book Trailer of the Day: Same Page
• Leviathan Bookstore, St. Louis, Mo., Moving to Permanent Home
• Thunder Road Books, Spring Lake, N.J., Expanding
• Obituary Note: Belinda Jones
• Independent Publishers Caucus Launches Indie Press Month Bookstore Display Contest, Social Media Campaign
• Michael Jacobs, Sheridan Hay Form Filmore Projects
• Top-Selling Self-Published Titles
• Personnel Changes at Putnam; Phaidon; Berkley
• Media Heat: Tyler Moore on the Today Show
• Bookseller Cats-in-residence: Roxy & Lucy at Sower Books
• Review: The Garden
• Bookstore Romance: Judith Rosen on Getting Engaged or Married in Bookstores
• Semicolon Books, Chicago, Ill., Closing Physical Stores
• Review: The Dollhouse Academy
• Bookish Golden Globe Winners
• Bookstore Wedding: Archivist Books
• Obituary Note: David Lodge
• Kim Dower, aka Kim-from-L.A., on Being a Poet and a Publicist
• Personnel Changes at Sourcebooks
• A Jimmy Carter Bookstore Visit Remembered
• Media Heat: Lynne Peeples on Fresh Air
• Book Trailer of the Day: Blood and the Badge
• Serendipity Crystals & Bookshop Coming to Taunton, Mass.
• Books-A-Million Moving Peachtree City, Ga., Store
• Bookseller Dog: Rudder at Lupine Books
• Holiday Hum: 'Vibrant and Successful'; 'Classic Bookselling'
• Bookstore Marriage Proposal: Storyline Bookshop
• Whitty Books, Tulsa, Okla., to Close
• Obituary Note: John Marsden
• Simon & Schuster Handling World Print Sales for Big City Press
• Robert Gray: Holiday Family Portraits from Indie Booksellers
• Chalkboard: Epilogue Books
• Movies: The Monkey
• Reading with... Jane Yang
• Review: Three Days in June
• Seattle's Paper Boat Booksellers Plans to Move
• Ink Drinkers Anonymous, Muncie, Ind., Opening in New Location Tomorrow
• Bookstore Display: 'Read. Write. Rest. Resist!' at Changing Hands
• Attainment: New Titles Out Next Week
• Holiday Hum: General Retail Sales Up 3.8%
• Fountain Bookstore, Richmond, Va., Moving--And Keeping Current Space
• This Weekend on Book TV: Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Grand Opening Saturday for Novel Read Books, Watsontown, Pa.
• Bookseller Cat: Koda at Hearthside Books
• Bookstore Marriage Proposal: The Book & Cover
• Booksellers' Moment: Books Are Magic
• Awards: King Charles's New Year's Honors List
• In Memoriam: Jimmy Carter, Author
• Review: The Wolf Tree
• IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites
• Top-Selling Self-Published Titles
• Federal Judge Rules Arkansas Book Ban Law Unconstitutional
• Media Heat: Full Menu of Cookbooks and Self-Help Books
• IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites
• Movies: Wuthering Heights
• POTUS44's Reading List: Obama's Favorite Books of 2024
• Bookstore Marriage Proposal: Red Balloon Bookshop
• Bookseller Dog: Tommy at Epilogue Books
• Bookseller's Christmas Moment: White Whale Bookstore
• Holiday Season Chalkboard: Bards Alley Bookshop
• Awards: Order of Canada Appointees
• Hey Darling Romance Bookstore Opens in Austin, Minn. 
• Image of the Day: Act 4 Books Now Has Three Partners
• Happy Holidays!
• Media Heat: Ina Garten, Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson, Cher, Venus Williams, Pamela Anderson, and More
• Veronica Liu Reports on the Guadalajara International Book Fair
• Lovestruck Books Debuts in Cambridge, Mass.
• B&N Opening New Stores in Stamford, Conn., & Naperville, Ill.; Closing in Spartanburg, S.C.
• Review: Original Sins: The (Mis)Education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism
• Swoon Books & Wine Opening in Oakwood, Ohio, Next Year
• Hurricane-damaged Blinking Owl Books, Fort Myers, Fla., Reopens in New Location  
• Cool Idea of the Day: 'Literati Cookies'
• Personnel Changes at Harper Perennial; Macmillan
• Bookshop Storefront Window Display: Quail Ridge Books
• Awards: Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Winner
• Obituary Note: Margaret Hackney Frith
• AAP Sales: 8.3% Jump in October, Up 7.1% for YTD
• Robert Gray: More Season's Greetings, Indie Bookseller Style
• Best Adult Books of 2024
• Movies: Reminders of Him