Archive for Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for the book trade

• 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
• #IndiesFirst & #SBS: 'Behind Every Small Business Is a Family'
• Dave Maquera New CEO of Powell's Books
• That's a Wrap: 'Tonight, We Are Exhausted & Grateful for Each One of You!'
• Review: Simple Heart
• Awards: Waterstones and Foyles Books of the Year Winners
• Media Heat: Judith Enck on Marketplace
• Bookseller Cat: Dewey at Hearthside Books
• Attainment: New Titles Out Next Week
• Thanksgiving Weekend Bookstore Forecast: Sunbound Books
• New Owners for Asheville's Battery Park Book Exchange & Champagne Bar
• Blackbird Books Opening Friday in Mansfield, Ohio
• A24 Opening Sections in Barnes & Noble Stores
• Pre-holiday Weekend Bookshop Moment: Vanishing Ink Books
• Awards: Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence
• Obituary Note: Barry Austin
• This Weekend on Book TV: The History Book Festival
• Happy Thanksgiving!
• Media Heat: Jonathan Karl, Karine Jean-Pierre on the View
• IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites
• Personnel Changes at Macmillan
• Linda Letra Bilingual Books, Portland, Ore., Adds Holiday Pop-Up that Could Stay
• Reading with... Rebecca Brown
• Starred Children's Review: Frog
• Image of the Day: More Than a Game at Barrett Bookstore
• Crazy Story Books Coming to Red Bank, N.J.
• Media Heat: Joyce Vance on Fresh Air
• Cool Idea: 'Breaking the Cycle With Books'
• Movies: The Bodyguard
• Awards: Readings Winners
• Lakeside Book Company Buys Baker & Taylor Publisher Services and B&T POD Operations
• Obituary Note: Ian Marchant 
• Dust & Blush Bookshop, Boyne City, Mich., Launches Crowdfunding Campaign
• James Patterson & Bookshop.org Launch $15,000 Literary Prize
• Image of the Day: New Friends at the Miami Book Fair
• Personnel Changes at Viking Penguin
• Top-Selling Self-Published Titles
• Bookseller Moment: Roundabout Books
• CALIBA's Golden Poppy Finalists; Changes for Next Year's Awards
• Review: Nightshade and Oak
• Amasia Entertainment Acquires Complete Idiot's Guide Franchise Rights
• Christmas Book Tree: Volume Bookshop & Studio
• Zibby's Bookshop's NYC Pop-Up Now Permanent
• Cool Idea: 'The Emma Straub Salad'
• Awards: Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title Winner
• SIBA Hits Membership Milestone, Looks to 'Bright Future'
• Media Heat: Dav Pilkey on Today
• Obituary Note: Richard Lamparski
• Starred Review: The Company of Owls
• Mary Beth Thomas Joining Hachette as Director, Field Sales
• Catapult Buys Hawthorne Books & Literary Arts
• U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze Opening Tenure with Focus on Poetry Translation
• Image of the Day: Steve Israel Launches The Einstein Conspiracy
• Top Library Recommended Titles for December
• Image of the Day: The Woodcutter's Christmas at Battenkill Books
• Movies: The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
• Bookshop Cat: Penny at Heartleaf Books
• Cool Idea: Sheraton Boston Hotel's Goodnight Moon Suite
• Love & Legends Books Opening Tomorrow in Brooklyn, N.Y.
• Personnel Changes at Sourcebooks
• International Update: BA's 'Role of Scotland's Bookshops' Report; Reading Trends in Iceland, Luxembourg
• Awards: Nero Shortlists
• ABA at 125: 'Indie Bookstores' Superpower Is That They Can Make the Store Whatever They Want'
• Bookseller Moment: Birdie Books
• Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore, Middletown, Conn., Adds Cohen's Bagel Company 
• Brave Seeker Books Hosts Ribbon-cutting in Rexburg, Idaho
• Reading with... Robyn Green
• Review: Little One
• Grand Opening Tomorrow for BAM Store in Cypress, Tex.
• National Book Award Winners
• Attainment: New Titles Out Next Week
• Bookstore Video: 'When the Social Media Person Needs Content'
• Bookseller Cat: Stets at Copper News Book Store
• This Weekend on Book TV: The Miami Book Fair
• Awards: Australian Fiction Winner
• Obituary Note: Jeanette Winter
• The Lazy Daisy Bookshop Relocates to Larger Space
• Robert Gray: Booksellers' Holiday Season to Include 'Moose Friday', 'NOT Black Friday', & More
• Image of the Day: Celebrating Stories in L.A.
• Book Trailer of the Day: Common Disaster
• Media Heat: Michelle Carr on Fresh Air
• Forced Proximity Opens Bricks-and-Mortar Location in Findlay, Ohio
• IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites
• Review: The Great Shadow: A History of How Sickness Shapes What We Do, Think, Believe, and Buy
• WH Smith Group CEO Cowling Resigns
• Bookseller Moment: Fabled Bookshop & Cafe
• Cool Idea of the Day: The Chicagoland Holiday Bookstore Trolley
• Movies: The Chronology of Water
• Image of the Day: Marilynne Robinson Wins Inaugural Lewis H. Lapham Award
• Bound & Vine Opening Saturday in Fayetteville, N.C.
• Obituary Note: Rachel Cooke
• Media Heat: Nate Berkus on the View
• Awards: Writers' Trust of Canada Winners
• Shelf Awareness Delivers Kids & YA Pre-Order E-Blast
• Libro.fm Bestsellers in 2025
• Reading with... Steve Ramirez
• Starred YA Review: Beth Is Dead
• Chalkboard: Novel Bay Booksellers
• Books & More Bookstore Opens in Missouri City, Tex.
• Ribbon-cutting Held for B&N College's New Clarkson University Bookstore 
• With Matching Gift Challenge, Binc Launches Year-End Fundraising Campaign
• Awards: Cercador Literature in Translation Winner
• Personnel Changes at the Random House Publishing Group
• Movies: Wuthering Heights
• Stable Distribution Adds Five Publishers
• Image of the Day: Dog Man Visits Phoenix Books
• Turtle Books Holds Grand Opening in Brookline, Mass.
• Impossible Moon Bookshop Coming to Hapeville, Ga.
• Obituary Note: Hal Sirowitz
• Top-Selling Self-Published Titles
• Starred Review: When the Museum Is Closed
• Media Heat: Tom Freston on the Tonight Show
• Chicago's Volumes Bookcafe to Close
• Bookseller Video: 'How We Keep the Books on the Shelves When We Travel'
• Apple TV's Pluribus Offers Bloodsong of Wycaro Sample Chapter
• Bookstore Display Contest for The Story of Oog; Winner Gets Working Visit from Len Vlahos
• The ABA Celebrates Its 125th Anniversary
• The Story House Bookstore Replaces Pagination Bookshop in Springfield, Mo. 
• Review: The Future Saints
• Awards: Aspen Words Longlist; Wingate Longlist
• Media Heat: Cynthia Erivo on Fresh Air
• Staff Changes at Gibson's Bookstore
• Book Trailer of the Day: I, Medusa
• Bookmarx, Springfield, Mo., Adding Video Rental Store 
• B&N Opening Six Stores Wednesday
• Image of the Day: Rainy Day Books Hosts the Pioneer Woman
• The Author Shoppe, Hattiesburg, Miss., Reopens in New Location
• Media Heat: Rachel Lance on Fresh Air
• Volume Bookshop & Studio, Buckhannon, W.Va., Hosts Grand Opening
• Lakeville Books and Stationery Opens Second Location, in Great Barrington, Mass.
• TV: Don't Let the Devil Ride
• International Update: Japan's Govt. on 'Revitalizing Local Bookstores'; BookPeople's CEO Change
• Obituary Note: Marina Lewycka
• Awards: Edna Staebler Creative Nonfiction Shortlist
• CALIBA Launches Certified Indie Campaign for Members
• ACC Art Books to Represent Mundo Domingo
• Book Trailer of the Day: Ride
• Chalkboard: Prologue Bookshop
• Reading with... Theodora Goss
• Starred Review: City of Others
• Image of the Day: Christina Henry at Brookline Booksmith
• Bookshop Cat: Blue Cypress Books
• Thomas Coesfeld to Succeed Thomas Rabe as Bertelsmann Chairman & CEO
• Honey and Hue Bookstore Opening Saturday in Chicago, Ill.
• Obituary Note: Jim Hamilton 
• Oprah's Book Club Pick: Some Bright Nowhere
• This Weekend on Book TV: The Brooklyn Book Festival
• Awards: Neustadt Winner
• Attainment: New Titles Out Next Week
• Robert Gray: Fictional Bookselling--'Hoot Owl Books Is Still in Business... Kinda''
• Personnel Changes at Simon & Schuster
• Media Heat: Lionel Richie on the Kelly Clarkson Show
• Pagination Bookshop, Springfield, Mo., Closes
• Book Trailer of the Day: Real Skills for Real Life
• IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites
• Review: This Is Where the Serpent Lives
• Dead Petals Press Mobile Bookstore Hits the Road in Va.
• Image of the Day: Mrs. Dalloway's Hosts Hayley Kiyoko
• Cool Idea: Iowa Bookstores' Food Nonprofit Fundraiser
• Bound Books, York, Pa., Reopens in New Home
• TV: Becoming Marlow Fin
• Obituary Note: Sri Owen
• Bookstore Wedding: Perkins Cove Bookshop
• Ownership Change for Downtown Books, Manteo, N.C.
• BookSmart Expands with San Jose, Calif., Location
• Random House Children's Books Acquiring Cherry Lake Publishing Group
• Personnel Changes at Simon & Schuster
• Bookseller Faves: November Romance Titles