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- Page 158 Books' Dave Lucey Joins Edelweiss
- Shelf Awareness Delivers Kids & YA Pre-Order E-Blast
- Penguin Random House Publisher Services to Sell and Distribute Drawn & Quarterly
- Movies: Custom of the Country
- Pan Macmillan Int'l Director Jonathan Atkins to Retire
- Obituary Note: John Peel
- Artemis Books & Goods, Traverse City, Mich., to Open in Permanent Home
- International Update: Australia's BookPeople Reclaims Name; LBF Lifetime Achievement Award Winner
- Swoon Books & Wine Opens in Oakwood, Ohio
- Awards: Robert A. Heinlein Winner
- Media Heat: Michael Pollan on Colbert's Late Show
- The Poetry Shelf: Women's History Month Suggestions
- Reading with... D.S. Waldman
- Children's Review: Theft of the Ruby Lotus
- Image of the Day: Kim Daneielson Launch at Tattered Cover Aspen Grove
- Bookseller Moment: Monarch Books
- Ashland: A Love Story
- Movies: One Hundred and Fifty-Two Days
- Event of the Day: Politics & Prose's 'Tribute to Book World'
- Media Heat: Loubna Mrie on Fresh Air
- 2 Valentine's Day Weddings at 2 Dandelions Bookshop
- Top-Selling Self-Published Titles
- Awards: Chytomo Winners
- Obituary Note: Cees Nooteboom
- Review: Cleo Dang Would Rather Be Dead
- Personnel Changes at Simon & Schuster Distribution
- Partners in Crime Opening Saturday in Chicago, Ill.
- Bookshop Dog: Bella at Rooted Books & Gifts
- B&N Opening New Bookstore in Port St. Lucie, Fla.
- Image of the Day: Gregg Hurwitz and Friends at Diesel, a Bookstore
- Late Night Chapters Opens in Billings, Mont.
- The Next Chapter, A Romance Bookstore, Opens in Clio, Mich.
- Red Wheel/Weiser to Sell, Distribute New World Library; Kevin Votel Joins NWL
- TV: Margo's Got Money Troubles
- Bookseller Winter Olympics: Winnie & Mo's Bookshop
- WanderLust Mobile Bookstore Debuting Tomorrow in Madison, Wis.
- PEN America Names Co-CEOs
- Your Brother's Bookstore, Evansville, Ind., Relocating
- Amanda Angelini Is New Owner of Reading Group Choices
- Awards: Walter Dean Myers Winners
- Obituary Note: Andrew Hewson
- Personnel Changes at Candlewick Press, Holiday House, and Peachtree
- ABA Names Children's Institute Scholarship Winners
- Presidents Day
- Image of the Day: A Taste of Madagascar at Omnivore Books
- Reading with... Janie Chang
- Review: The Left and the Lucky
- The Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza Moves 'Down the Sidewalk' in Albany, N.Y.
- Movies: American Huckster
- Cherry on Top Bookshop Opening Tomorrow in Fort Collins, Colo.
- Attainment: New Titles Out Next Week
- This Weekend on Book TV: Roy Scranton on Impasse: Climate Change and the Limits of Progress
- Awards: Women's Prize for Nonfiction Longlist
- B&N Opening New Stores in Alexandria, Va., and Wallkill, N.Y.
- Robert Gray: 'This Valentine's Day, Skip the Card & Give a Book Instead!'
- Liate Stehlik Named CEO & Publisher, U.S. Trade, at HarperCollins
- Image of the Day: [words] Bookstore Hosts Ezekiel J. Emanuel
- Reading Group Choices' Most Popular January Books
- Personnel Changes at Hachette; future of agency
- IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites
- International Update: Penguin Children's Bookshop Grant in U.K.; New IPA Educational Publishers Forum Chair
- Book-themed Photoshoot Mystery Solved
- Starred Review: Inheritance
- Echo + Page Opening in Durham, N.C.
- Olympic Bookselling: The Book Curling Event
- Personnel Changes at Random House Children's Books
- Shelf Awareness Presents: Difficult Topics, A Webinar
- AAP Sales: 9.4% Jump in December; Year Up 1.1%
- Movies: The Mist
- Awards: SCBWI Golden Kite Winners
- Obituary Note: Suzannah Lessard
- Bookseller Moment: Baldwin & Co. Coffee & Bookstore
- Bound to Bindings Opening Bricks-and-Mortar Location in Charleston, S.C.
- Media Heat: Senator Bernie Sanders on Colbert's Late Show
- Image of the Day: Mychal Threets at Brooklyn Public Library
- Top Book Club Picks in January
- Reading with... Emily Nemens
- Children's Review: Everything Is Music
- Book Trailer of the Day: The Winged Game
- B&N Closes Waterbury, Conn., Store
- TV: Philip Kerr's Berlin Noir Series
- Bookshop Video: 'What Booksellers Never Talk About...'
- The Lines Den Debuts in Wilson, N.C.
- Christina Ward New Owner of Feral House, Process Media
- Awards: James Patterson and Bookshop.org Longlist
- Tom Booth Retiring as Oregon State University Press Director
- The Flora Shelves Opens in Appleton, Wis.
- Review: American Fantasy
- Media Heat: Dorothy Roberts on Fresh Air
- Top-Selling Self-Published Titles
- Image of the Day: Pulitzer Winners Visit Mrs. Dalloway's
- Chalkboard: Friendly Alien Books
- Book Trailer of the Day: America's Founding Myths... and What REALLY Happened!
- The Grim Reader Bookshop, Atlanta, Ga., Opening Bricks-and-Mortar Store
- The Book & Bottle Shop, Hopkinsville, Ky., Launches Literary Magazine
- Obituary Note: Will Murphy
- Bookish #SuperBowl: 'Was That a First Down? No, a First Edition!'
- Media Heat: Margaret Atwood on Here & Now
- Movies: Remain
- International Update: BA's Christmas Sales Survey; Hachette UK Restructures Children's Division
- Chapters Books & Gifts, Seward, Neb., Reopens Months After Storm Damage
- Review: London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth
- Happy 15th Birthday, Dragonfly Books and Its New Owners!
- Kent Carroll Retiring After 50-Year Career
- Awards: PEN America Literary Finalists
- Personnel Changes at HarperCollins Children's Books
- Book Trailer of the Day: So, I Met This Guy
- Pilsen Community Books Reopens in New Space
- Image of the Day: Jason Zengerle at Flyleaf Books
- 'Indie Booksellers Are the Backbone of the Book Industry Right Now'
- Amazon's Fourth Quarter: Sales Up 13.6%; AI Spending Jump Leads to 10% Stock Drop
- Bookstore Baby: Monkey and Dog Books
- TV: Dark Winds Season 5
- Obituary Note: Allan Massie
- Awards: Waterstones Children's Book Shortlist
- Grand Opening Tomorrow for The Book Shop of Needham in Needham, Mass.
- Open Books, Chicago, Ill., Closing Logan Square Location
- Image of the Day: Susan Lucci at Books & Greetings
- Chalkboard: Protagonist Books & Coffee
- Godmothers Bookstore: a 'Beacon of Community, Creativity, & Conversation'
- Reading with... Matthew F. Jones
- Review: What Ever Happened to Eddy Crane?: A Memoir and a Murder Investigation
- The Love Potion Library Coming to San Francisco, Calif.
- Media Heat: Bookseller Victoria Scott-Miller on Jennifer Hudson Show
- Attainment: New Titles Out Next Week
- Reese's February Book Club Pick: In Her Defense
- Two Rivers to Sell and Distribute Three Wishes, the Artist Book Foundation
- Shelf Awareness Delivers Indie Pre-Order E-Blast
- TV: The Institute Season 2
- Awards: Porchlight Business Book Winners; Arabic Fiction Shortlist
- Obituary Note: Eric Huntley
- Bookshop.org Partnering with Draft2Digital, Spotify
- This Weekend on Book TV: Brad Meltzer
- Robert Gray World Read Aloud Day: 'Because Stories Are Meant to Be Shared'
- Washington Post Closes the Books Section Amid Layoffs
- Image of the Day: Mary Roach at Berkeley's Book Society
- Cool Idea: Brazos Wedding Chapel
- IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites
- Review: Tailbone
- New Owners at Curiosity House Books in Creemore, Ont., Canada
- Image of the Day: 'An Event that Feels Like a Blessing' at Minneapolis's Magers & Quinn
- TV: Imperfect Women
- Ingram Expanding Roseburg, Ore., Facility
- Personnel Changes at Nosy Crow
- IPG Adds Four Publishers
- Penguin Random House Publisher Services to Sell and Distribute Oni Press
- Queer Haven Books, Columbia, S.C., Moving to Larger Location
- Obituary Note: Gee Gee Rosell
- Media Heat: Robert Kagan on Fresh Air
- A Love Affair Book Boutique Opens in Red Wing, Minn.
- Awards: Aurealis Finalists
- Reading with... Lindsay Currie
- Starred Children's Review: Baseball's Shining Season
- Book Trailer of the Day: Antihero
- 'I Don't Think I'd Have a Career if Not for Indie Bookstores'
- The Book Lounge Planned for Meridian, Idaho
- Thames & Hudson Selling College Division to W.W. Norton
- Ingram Library Services Adds Staff, Inventory
- Movies: The Housekeeper
- A New Chapter Opens in West Springfield, Mass.
- Ownership Change at Zenith Bookstore, Duluth, Minn.
- Awards: PEN/Faulkner Fiction Longlist
- Storefront Window: Montgomery & Taggert
- Aya Elamroussi Named Director of Communications at Hachette
- Bookshop Wedding: Cupboard Maker Books
- Obituary Note: James Sallis
- Top-Selling Self-Published Titles
- Media Heat: Gabriel Sherman on Fresh Air
- Chalkboard: Excelsior Bay Books
- Review: The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances
- Book Trailer of the Day: Scatman John
- Ravensburger Buys Majority Stake in NordSüd/NorthSouth Books
- Top Library Recommended Titles for February
- Media Heat: Gloria Steinem, Leymah Gbowee on CBS Mornings
- Bookshop Moment: 'Leave Your Adulthood in the Hall & Tap Into Your Inner Child'
- Movies: The Riders
- Awards: Grammy Audio Winner; Gambling Book Winner
- Update: Rough Draft Bar & Books, Kingston, N.Y., Reopens After Burst Pipes
- Obituary Note: Sue Nelson
- Libro.fm Bestsellers in January
- Friday's General Strike: 'Our Store Was Built on the Very Foundations of Creating Connection'
- Powell's Books Says Series of Layoffs Completed
- Starred Review: Nightfaring: In Search of the Disappearing Darkness
- Image of the Day: Lily King at Book Passage
- Personnel Changes at Macmillan
- Book Trailer of the Day: National Park ABC!
- Texas Bookman Launches NAMASTE, New Age/Metaphysics/Spirituality Trade Show
- Chronicle President Tyrrell Mahoney New AAP Chair
- 'Time for Us to All Stand Up Together'
- Video: Bookselling on Bridgerton Season 4 Release Day
- The Collective Book Studio Launches Tiny Torch Books Imprint
- Obituary Note: Ellen Mager
- Rough Draft Bar & Books, Kingston, N.Y., Damaged by Burst Pipes
- TV: Outlander, the Final Season
- Image of the Day: Saunders Launches Vigil with a Brooklyn Crowd
- Awards: Audie Finalists; Wingate Literary Winner
- Binc Awards Scholarships to ComicsPRO Industry Meeting
- Personnel Changes at the Tor Publishing Group
- Cool Idea: Walking Tour for Booksellers
- Great Moments in Bookselling: 'Introducing Our New Shelving Cart!'
- Cynthia Leitich Smith: 2026 Michael L. Printz Award Winner
- Reading with... Yah Yah Scholfield
- Review: Visitations: Poems
- Dudley's Bookshop, Bend, Ore., Adding Second Location
- This Week's Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers
- Bookseller Moment: Nooks Gellery & Bookshop
- Image of the Day: 'One Million Books Later...'
- Awards: Sydney Taylor Winners
- ABA Relaunches Indies Choice Book Awards
- Tomorrow's General Strike: Book World Fundraisers; ABA CEO Allison Hill on 'Shining Light'
- The Folded Leaf Relocating to Traverse City, Mich.
- Attainment: New Titles Out Next Week
- Obituary Note: Hudson Talbott
- Robert Gray: Booksellers' Winter Storm Fern Forecast--A Retrospective
- This Weekend on Book TV: Gov. Josh Shapiro
- Ante Books & Creative Studios, McAllen, Tex., to Close
- Media Heat: Brooke Nevils on Fresh Air
- Personnel Changes at HarperOne
- IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites
- Cátia Chien: 2026 Caldecott Medalist
- Starred Review: Like This, But Funnier
- Image of the Day: Camino Books Hosts John Sayles
- Bookselling Detective Work
- Book Trailer of the Day: Young World
- TV: The Last Thing He Told Me Season 2
- International Update: Venue Change for 2027 London Book Fair; Applications Open for RISE Booksellers Exchange Program
- Awards: Dylan Thomas Longlist
- The Bookseller Olympics at Words on Warren
- Really Cool Idea: Little Free Library at the South Pole
- Renée Watson: 2026 Newbery Medal Winner
- Media Heat: Jacob Soboroff on Colbert's Late Show
- Reading with... Moniquill Blackgoose
- YA Review: The Celestial Seas
- Obituary Note: Hal Wake
- B&N Opening New Bookstores Today in Strongsville, Ohio, & Katy, Tex.
- Half Full Bookstore Opens in Portsmouth, Va.
- At Frankfurt Book Fair, Joachim Kaufmann to Succeed Juergen Boos as President, CEO
- Media Heat: Jason Zengerle on Fresh Air
- Movies: Eloise
- American Library Association 2026 Youth Media Award Winners
- Image of the Day: Loretta Ellsworth at Three Bells Books
- Awards: T.S. Eliot Winner
- Bob Miller Founds Bookswork Press
- Philip Ruppel Named CEO of Phaidon Press
- The Otto Bookstore, Williamsport, Pa., Expanding
- Review: The Geomagician
- Top-Selling Self-Published Titles
- Indie Bookstore UPS Moment: Neighborhood Books
- Video: 'We Are Always More Than Happy to Help You Find What You Are Looking For'
- Indies Nationwide Join ICE Protests: 'Keep the Pages Turning... & Keep the Light On'