Archive for Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for the book trade

• International Update: 'Indies Aren't Just for Christmas'; '10 Specific Bookselling Joys'
• Awards: FutureBook 2025 Winners 
• Attainment: New Titles Out Next Week
• Happy 50th Birthday, Atticus Bookstore Cafe!
• Staff Pics: 'This Team Is Nothing Short of a Christmas Miracle'
• Microcosm Adds Three Distribution Clients
• 'May this Season Show You All The Ways You Are Valued by Your Communities'
• This Weekend on Book TV: Mahmood Mamdani
• IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites
• Mystery Solved on the Move in Utah
• Top-Selling Self-Published Titles
• Review: Haven
• Wonderful Words Bookshoppe Debuts in Bryan, Tex.
• Free Gift Wrapping: 'All Hands (and Paws) on Deck!'
• Media Heat: Dick Van Dyke on Good Morning America
• Happy Holidays!
• New Owners at Old Professor's Bookshop, Belfast, Maine
• Binc Sets Year-End Matching Gift Challenge
• On Stage: Mark Twain Tonight!
• Review: Kin
• Boxing Day Is Every Day for Booksellers: 'Many Thanks to Our Delivery Guys'
• Awards: PEN America Literary Longlists
• Obituary Note: Sue Bender
• POTUS44's Reading List: Obama's Favorite Books of 2025
• A Fusion of Culturas at La Feria Internacional del Libro Guadalajara
• Media Heat: Mikel Welch on CBS Mornings
• Personnel Changes at Macmillan
• Forget Me Not Fables Bookshop Opens in North Providence, R.I.
• Top Library Recommended Titles for January
• Image of the Day: Matt Tavares and Friend at Bridgeside Books
• Birch Tree Bookery in Ohio Adds Second Location
• RBmedia Exclusive Audiobook Publishing Partner for W.W. Norton
• Media Heat: Nick Harkaway on Fresh Air
• Obituary Note: Gary Jaffe
• Scholastic Second Quarter: Revenues Up 1%; Book Publishing, Distribution Up 4%
• Chalkboard: Storyline Bookshop
• Awards: Wingate Shortlist
• AAP Sales: 6.7% Gain in October, Continuing Fall Upswing
• Image of the Day: The Little Girl Who Loved Christmas
• TV: The God of the Woods
• Bookstore Christmas Tree: The Mysterious Bookshop
• Bookseller Dog: Ripley at Parnassus Books
• Ownership Change for Munro's Books in Victoria, B.C.
• Review: The Optimists
• Reading with... Jen Braaksma
• Firefly Books & Comics Launches in Rexburg, Idaho
• Report: Elliott Preparing to Take Barnes & Noble, Waterstones Public
• Dinaw Mengestu Elected President of PEN America
• Image of the Day: Mac Barnett and Jennifer Garner Talk Picture Books
• Attainment: New Titles Out Next Week
• Storefront Window Display: McLean & Eakin Booksellers
• Awards: Hatchards First Biography Shortlist
• New Owner at Hills & Hamlets Bookshop, Chattahoochee Hills, Ga.
• This Weekend on Book TV: Steven Pinker
• IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites
• Robert Gray: Reading & the 'True Spirit' of the Holidays Revisited
• Holiday Hum: Reports of Supply Chain Problems; Gales of November Going Strong
• Book Trailer of the Day: The Motivation Mindset Workbook
• Media Heat: Nia Sioux, Debbie Gibson on the Sherri Shepherd Show
• Embarrassing Shoes, San Antonio, Tex., Closing Next Month
• Bookshop Wedding Day Pics: The Little Book 
• Review: Weavingshaw
• Happy 250th Birthday, Jane Austen!
• The Book Lounge Opens in St. Petersburg, Fla.
• TV: Miss Austen Season 2
• Obituary Note: Madeline Neill 
• Holiday Season Decorations: Plenty Downtown Bookshop
• Cool Idea: Pug in a Christmas Sweater Contest
• Sunshine Book Nook Debuts in Urbana, Ohio
• Personnel Changes at Grove Atlantic
• Media Heat: James Clear, Ann-Louise Lockhart on CBS Mornings
• Quimby's Bookstore, Chicago, Ill., Launches Quimby's Ink
• U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze to Publish Transient Worlds
• ABA at 125: 'Every Single Person Who Works on a Book Is Important'
• Reading with... Christina Kovac
• Starred Children's Review: Footeprint
• Awards: Poetry in Translation Shortlist
• Booksellers' Christmas Sweaters: Bear Pond Books
• 'Santa's Special Orders': Belmont Bookshop
• BookCon 2026: Sold Out, Leading Publishers Joining
• Lost the Plot Mobile Bookstore Hits the Road in Seattle
• Shelf Awareness Delivers Kids & YA Pre-Order E-Blast
• Reading Nest Debuts as Pop-Up in Cedarburg, Wis.
• Top-Selling Self-Published Titles
• Obituary Note: DéLana R.A. Dameron
• Review: The Reservation
• Awards: Arabic Fiction Longlist
• TV: Down Cemetery Road Season 2
• Media Heat: Hilton Carter, Dick Harpootlian on Today
• Red Carpet Bookseller Shoutout: City Lights Books
• Image of the Day: Janet Kintner at Warwick's
• Starred Review: Patchwork Dolls: Stories
• Movies: Barn 8
• Author-owned Floodplain Books Coming to Wilmington, N.C.
• Awards: Westminster Book Shortlist
• Bookshop Moment: Bookstore on the Square
• Bookish Wedding Pics: Friends to Lovers Bookstore
• Obituary Note: Joanna Trollope
• Image of the Day: Barbara Wansbrough at Books & Books
• Media Heat: Zadie Smith on Fresh Air
• Personnel Changes at Sourcebooks
• Finney's Books Hosts Grand Opening in Austin, Tex.
• Comma Bookstore & Social Hub, Flint, Mich., Going Online-Only
• Personnel Changes at Sourcebooks
• Bookshop Cat: Wilbur at Magnolia & Main Books
• Grand Opening this Weekend for Love Story Book Co., Tallahassee, Fla.
• Shelf Awareness's Best Children's and YA Books of 2025
• Indie Bookstore Holiday Season Fun, Hawaiian Style 
• Awards: Porchlight Business Book Longlist
• International Update: BA, Bookshop.org Partner for National Year of Reading; German Booksellers' Xmas Spirit
• Media Heat: Marisa Kashino on Good Morning America
• Bookseller Santa: Warwick's Bookstore
• Movies: The Master and Margarita
• I'll Meet You There Opens in Cedar Rapids, Iowa
• Chalkboard: Emry's Bookshop
• Obituary Note: Charles Coe
• Reading with... Davey Davis
• Review: Starry and Restless: Three Women Who Changed Work, Writing, and the World
• Endless Wonders Opens Pop-Up in Portland, Ore.
• Media Heat: Sam Smith and Phil Jackson on Fresh Air
• Bookstore Video: The Avid Reader
• Attainment: New Titles Out Next Week
• Personnel Changes at the future of agency
• Reading Group Choices' Most Popular November Books
• James Patterson Holiday Bookstore Bonus Recipients Announced
• Obituary Note: Madeleine Wickham (Sophie Kinsella)
• Image of the Day: Fabulosa Author Event
• This Weekend on Book TV: The Boston Book Festival
• Awards: Outstanding Science and STEM Books of the Year
• Holiday Hum: Supply Chain Issues Emerge; Handselling with a 'Deeper Purpose'
• Robert Gray: How 'The Grind' Saved Booksellers' Christmas! 
• IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites
• The Black Rose, West Branch, Iowa, Goes Online-Only
• The Wandering Lantern Arrives in Lakewood, Ohio
• Review: Leaving Home: A Memoir in Full Color
• Top Book Club Picks in November
• Addendum: Bookish Golden Globe Nominee
• On First Anniversary, Hachette Expands Raising Readers Program
• Personnel Changes at Librairie Drawn & Quarterly
• New Owner at Bookish in Fort Smith, Ark.
• Obituary Note: Carole Bidnick
• Simon & Schuster to Sell and Distribute Ablaze Publishing
• Happy 10th Anniversary, Next Page Books!
• Botanica Books Debuts in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
• TV: Margo's Got Money Troubles
• Awards: Center for Fiction First Novel, Edna Staebler Creative Fiction Winners
• Media Heat: Andrew Ross Sorkin on Fresh Air
• Chalkboard: Chapters Books & Gifts 
• Bookstore Moment: Explore Books
• Reading with... Julie Flett
• Children's Review: Nani and the Lion
• Wallflower Book Co. Comes to Walnut Cove, N.C.
• Supreme Court Freedom to Read Move 'A Setback in Timing, But Not in Justice'
• Top-Selling Self-Published Titles
• Bookish Golden Globe Nominees 
• Publishers Group West Adds Two Publishers
• Personnel Changes at Catapult/Counterpoint/Soft Skull
• Awards: PEN Heaney Winner
• Image of the Day: Chilly Scene of Winter
• Lily Books & Café in Cumberland, Md., Hosts Ribbon-cutting Ceremony
• Obituary Note: Fern Michaels
• Binc Adds Scholarships to ComicsPRO Industry Meeting
• Media Heat: Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson on the Sherri Shepherd Show
• Bookshop Marriage Proposal: Volumes Bookcafe 
• Starred Review: Rebel English Academy
• Book Trailer of the Day: Wild Folk
• Afterword Tavern & Shelves, Kansas City, Mo., Closing Next Month
• Movies: People We Meet on Vacation
• 'The Black-owned Bookstore Is the Response' to Attacks on DEI and Diverse Books
• Monstera's Books Reopens After Fire Damage Forced Temporary Closure
• Obituary Note: David Pryce-Jones
• Review: The Midnight Taxi
• Awards: Nero, Black Orchid Winners
• Media Heat: Patrick Markee on Fresh Air
• Bookseller Faves: Best Romance Titles of the Year
• C&T Publishing to Distribute Leisure Arts
• Personnel Changes at Hachette Book Group
• Happy 35th Birthday, Back of Beyond Books!
• Book Trailer of the Day: Brimstone
• Image of the Day: Cassandra Clare Launch at Barnes & Noble Union Square
• Harlequin's Dianne Moggy Retiring
• New Owners at Hedgehog.INK Bookstore, Fort Scott, Kan.
• ABA Announces Wi2026 Featured Keynote Speakers
• TV: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
• Bookshop Marriage Proposal: {pages} a bookstore
• Bookish Holiday Delivery Shoutout: Janke Book Store
• Obituary Note: Charles Mitchell
• Holiday Hum: A 'Solid' Start to the Season; Inclement Weather
• Book Trailer of the Day: Digital, Inc.
• Personnel Changes at Sourcebooks
• Awards: Joyce Carol Oates Prize Longlist
• Image of the Day: Christina Kovac at Politics and Prose
• 'Booksellers Are Heroes for Their Communities'
• Reading with... Jen Percy
• Review: Eradication: A Fable
• Cleveland's Visible Voice Books Opens in New Location
• PEN America to Honor Ann Patchett, Jason Blum
• Attainment: New Titles Out Next Week
• Image of the day: Laura Bishop and Friends at The New Romantics
• This Weekend on Book TV: The Litquake Festival
• IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites
• No Shelf Control Debuts in St. Augustine, Fla.
• Obituary Note: Porter Anderson
• Personnel Changes at Simon & Schuster; One World; Cherry Lake Publishing Group
• Main & Mountain Bookstore Hosts Grand Opening in Kernersville, N.C.
• Robert Gray: Australia's December 'Means Beach Days, Summer Gin & Tonics, Advent Calendars, Present Shopping, Family Time'
• Media Heat: Tom Colicchio on Good Morning America
• Chalkboard: Protagonist Books & Coffee
• Awards: Financial Times, Schroders Business Book; Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Comic Fiction Winners
• Book Trailer of the Day: Heartland
• Review: Frog: and Other Essays
• Actual Books Opens in Kenmore, N.Y.
• International Update: French Government Considers AI Bill; Japanese Bookshops 'Leasing Out Shelves'
• Shelf Awareness's Best Adult Books of 2025
• Unabridged Bookstore Celebrates 45 years
• Chalkboard: Prologue Bookshop
• Cool Idea: A Giving Tuesday Yarn Tree
• TV: Legacy of Spies
• Awards: Wolfson History Winner
• Obituary Note: Joseph Dewey 
• Woven Words Bookshop Opens in Akron, Ohio
• Shelf Awareness Delivers Indie Pre-Order E-Blast
• Libro.fm Bestsellers in November
• AAP Sales: 14.4% Gain in September, Breaking Five-Month Slump
• Scholastic Selling and Leasing Back NYC HQ and Missouri Warehouse
• Personnel Changes at Grand Central; Ingram
• Media Heat: Cameron Crowe on Jimmy Kimmel Live
• Simon & Schuster to Sell and Distribute Humanitas Media
• Reading with... Hannah Beer
• Children's Review: Ren's Pencil
• Obituary Note: Daniel Woodrell
• Personnel Changes at Simon & Schuster Distribution
• Movies: Run Away
• Awards: Blackwell's Book of the Year Winner
• Happy 40th Birthday, Basically Books!
• Bookshop Video: 'Working at an Indie Bookstore on a Snow Day'
• The Littlest Library Opens in Independence, Mo.
• #CiderMonday: 'Swing By Your Friendly Neighborhood Bookstore for Something Sweeter'
• Media Heat: Dan Pelosi on Good Morning America
• Bookshop Wedding Pics: Magic City Books
• Starred Review: Warning Signs
• The Bluffton Bookshop Coming to Bluffton, S.C., in 2026
• Indies First/Small Business Saturday/Plaid Friday/Black Friday: Holiday Shopping Begins
• Movies: Rogue Male
• Obituary Note: Tom Stoppard
• Image of the Day: Roddy Bottum at Skylight Books
• Holiday Season Storefront Window Art: Heathen's & Co.
• Chalkboard: Columbus Bound Bookshop
• Midwest Indies Weather Report: 'Well the Grinch Did Steal Small Business Saturday'
• Wearing Plaid on Black Friday