Archive for Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for the book trade

• Liberation Station, Raleigh, N.C., Reopens
• Attainment: New Titles Out Next Week
• Personnel Changes at ILP Literary Properties
• Video: 'How Many Books Did Our L&O Staff & Friends Read in 2025?'
• Bookseller Moment: Sulfur Books
• Beth Wagner Named Operations Manager at NEIBA
• Obituary Note: David Roberts
• New Owners at West Side Books & Curios in Denver, Colo. 
• This Weekend on Book TV: Beth Macy on Paper Girl
• Awards: Pacific Northwest Book Winners; SCBWI Golden Kite Finalists
• Robert Gray: New Years, Old Years--The Story of Print Continues
• Image of the Day: Sally Maslansky at Flyleaf Books
• IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites
• Media Heat: Belle Burden on Good Morning America
• Shelf Awards: Best Ads of 2025 and--New--Best Marketing Campaign of 2025
• Casita Bookstore, Long Beach, Calif., Launches Crowdfunding Campaign
• Review: they
• Media Heat: Eric Lichtblau on Fresh Air
• More Inventory Tales, Including 'Save Us from Inventory' & 'We Don't Want to Count It' Sales
• Kirkus Buys AudioFile Magazine; Kuehn Returns as CEO and Publisher
• IPC's Indie Press Month to Be Largest Ever
• Globe Pequot Acquires Lake Isle Press
• Kensington Publishing Appoints Adam Zacharius as New President
• TV: Imperfect Women
• Awards: Order of Canada Appointees
• Libro.fm Bestsellers in December
• Shelf Awareness Delivers Indie Pre-Order E-Blast
• Personnel Changes at Zando
• Jeffrey Mathews Named President of Scholastic Education
• Bookseller Moment: Shared Stories Bookstore
• Bookshop Video: The Lynx Bookstore
• Reading with... Katie Bernet
• Children's Review: Red River Rose
• Top Book Club Picks in December
• Ed Spade Named Senior V-P, Commercial Operations, at Hachette
• TV: Bookish
• Andrew Richard Albanese Named Editor-in-Chief of Publishing Perspectives
• Inventory Season: Janke Book Store
• Image of the Day: John Waters at East End Books
• For Sale: Pages & Parchment Book Store in Skippack, Pa.
• Obituary Note: Brian Doyle
• Holiday Hum: 'The Year of the Supply-Side Issues'
• Review: Hell's Heart
• Media Heat: Laura Dave on Good Morning America
• 'Our Social Media Manager Is on Vacation. Buy Books'
• Book Trailer of the Day: Sloomoo: Making Friends
• Movies: The Odyssey
• Bookseller Dog: Roux at Broadway Books 
• Bookshop Engagement Pics: Brookline Booksmith
• Media Heat: Jacob Soboroff on Fresh Air
• Cover Reveal of the Day: Work to Do
• Meadow Market Books Hosts Soft Opening
• Fire Destroys Two Bookstores in Arcata, Calif.
• Obituary Note: Jerome Lowenstein 
• Review: Spoiled Milk
• Awards: Bookish New Year's Honours
• Book Trailer of the Day: A Clean Hell
• Femme Fire Books in Jacksonville, Fla., Closes
• Ink'd Pages Coming Soon to New Bedford, Mass.
• Image of the Day: Sara Bareilles Visits Booklegger
• 'Book Recommendations from Members of Congress'
• Indie Booksellers Celebrate the New Year: 'The Best Stories Are Still Being Written'
• Chalkboard: The Book & Cover
• Bookseller Cat: Penny at Heartleaf Books
• Reading with... Kristin Bluemel
• Review: Dream Facades: The Cruel Architecture of Reality TV
• Early Retail Reports: A Positive Holiday Season Overall
• Media Heat: Michelle Obama on Today
• Main Street Books, St. Charles, Mo., on the Move
• Shelf Awareness for Readers: A New Year, a New Look
• Obituary Note: John Carey
• Bookish International Films & TV Series for the New Year
• Awards: NBCC Longlists
• 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