Archive for Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for the book trade

• Canadian Booksellers Celebrate Anne Carson's Nobel in Literature Win
• Heartland Fall Forum: Pictures at an Exhibition
• Short Films from the Booker Prize Shortlist
• Cool Idea: The Reading Party
• Banned Books Week Display: The Purple Couch Bookshop
• Cultura Books Debuts in Collingswood, N.J.
• Shelf Awareness Delivers Indie Pre-Order E-Blast
• Awards: Goldsmiths Shortlist
• Frankfurt Book Fair 2026: The Climate Crisis We Stopped Talking About
• Indigenous Peoples Day/Columbus Day
• Chalkboard: Henry's Books 
• TV: The Titanic Story of Evelyn
• Image of the Day: Seven Curious Ants at Books on the Square
• Bookshop.org: Milestones Met, More Milestones Set
• B&N Opens Stores in Tucson, Ariz., and San Marcos, Calif.,
• Reading with... Avia Tadmor
• Review: Party with Cassowary
• Forrest and Fawn Bookstore Grows in Riverton, Wyo.
• Heartland Fall Forum Kicks Off in Minneapolis
• Attainment: New Titles Out Next Week
• This Weekend on Book TV: Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor on End Times Fascism
• IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites
• MPIBA FallCon Wraps Up in Denver
• Nobel Prize in Literature Awarded to Anne Carson
• Awards: T.S. Eliot Shortlist 
• Obituary Note: Hilary McPhee
• Media Heat: Jean Chatzky on Today
• Bookseller Cat: Coal at From My Shelf Books & Gifts
• Robert Gray: Shakespeare and Company, Living 'Inside a Book' for 75 Years
• Bmore Romantic Opens in Baltimore, Md.
• 'Banned & Challenged' Section: Sulfur Books
• Image of the Day: The King's English Presents Ariel Lawhon
• Review: On Thin Ice: Stories
• The Bookmark to Host Grand Opening in Greer, S.C.
• Frankfurt Book Fair 2026: 'On the Knife Edge of History'
• TV: The Bride's Chamber
• Jasmine Baker Wins Carla Gray Memorial Scholarship
• Chalkboard: Hedgehog Books
• Valsoft Corp. Acquires the Firebrand Group 
• National Book Awards Finalists
• Bookseller Anti-Amazon Moment... with a View!
• Personnel Changes at Page One Media
• Awards: Financial Times, Standard Chartered Business Book Shortlist
• Media Heat: Patti Smith on Tonight
• Obituary Note: Dr. Irene Hasenberg Butter
• Earworm (Literally) of the Day: 'Send This to Someone Who Needs to Break up with Amaz*n'
• Image of the Day: Season of The Witch
• Reading with... Robbie Couch
• Children's Review: Help! I'm Being Eaten by a Bear!
• Obituary Note: Jeffrey Archer
• Movies: Clarissa
• Sarah Rhu of Scuppernong Books Wins Shelf Awareness Winter Institute Scholarship
• Chalkboard: Novel Bay Booksellers
• Personnel Changes at the future of agency
• MPIBA's FallCon Kicks Off in Denver
• American Library Association Releases 150 Most Challenged Books List
• Little Free Library Calls Upon Readers to Share Banned Books 
• Media Heat: Malcolm Gladwell on Jimmy Kimmel Live
• Image of the Day: Something Followed Us Home at Exile in Bookville
• Top Book Club Picks in September
• Book Trailer of the Day: Little Bee and the Bloom
• Starred Review: Fetal Position
• The Island Bookstore, Mackinac Island, Mich., Combining Locations
• Indie Bookstores: 'Textured and Handmade'
• Media Heat: Michael Douglas on Fresh Air, GMA, the View
• TV: Twist
• Obituary Note: Linda Asher
• B Is for Bookshop Raptor: 'Merlin' at Boulder Bookstore
• Author, Author!: Robert Sindelar to Star in His Own Play
• Image of the Day: Trailblazing Women
• Awards: Crook's Corner Shortlist
• Christine Edwards Joins Rizzoli as Chief Commercial Officer
• Media Source Launches Open Shelf Reviews
• Review: Table Hopping: The Secret History of London Restaurants, from Langan's Brasserie to the Wolseley
• The Guilty Librarian Opens in Flomaton, Ala.
• For Sale: Plot Twist Books, South Charleston, W.Va.
• Bookshop Moment: Well Worn Books
• The Blushing Bookmark Arrives in Massapequa Park, N.Y.
• W.W. Norton Launching New Imprint, Norton Waverly
• Heated Rivalry Producers Launch a Real Version of the Books' Irina Foundation
• TV: Thornbird
• Bookstore Dog: Rooney at Storyline Bookshop
• Spooky Window Display: The Mysterious Bookshop
• Lavender Cafe & Bookstore Launches in New Orleans, La.
• International Update: Argentina's 'Bookselling Emergency'; An Post Bookshop of the Year Longlist 
• Personnel Changes at HarperCollins; Viking Penguin
• Image of the Day: Jodi Picoult at the Bookmarks Festival
• Awards: Cercador Translation Finalists
• Mission Bookworm Coming to Mission, Kan., Next Month
• The Wild Detectives, Dallas, Tex., Opens Second Location
• Chalkboard: Cottage Book Shop
• B&N: Bookstores Open in Woodmere, Ohio; Richmond, Tex.; Chapel Hill, N.C.; Mobile, Ala.
• Review: To Grieve Is to Carry Another Time: A Memoir
• Reading with... Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr. and Shane Hawk
• Binc Names Susan Kamil Emerging Writers Prize Winners
• Attainment: New Titles Out Next Week
• Bookseller Moment: Silver Dawn Books
• 'When the Bookstore Playlist Hits and You Don't Realize There's a Customer'
• James Patterson's Holiday Bookstore Bonus Program Returns, Expands
• Obituary Note: Charles Trueheart 
• This Weekend on Book TV: Annie Jacobsen
• New Owners Reopen Big Red Books, Nyack, N.Y.
• IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites
• Robert Gray: BISG, BookNet Canada Report on 'AI Use Across the North American Book Industry'
• Awards: Center for Fiction First Novel Shortlist
• Media Heat: Ayad Akhtar on Here & Now
• Review: Weird Era: How Pitchfork Changed Music Forever: A Memoir
• Endless Chapters Bookshop & Cafe Coming to Jefferson, Wis.
• Image of the Day: The Book Stall's Launch for Catherine Grace Katz
• Reverie Room Opens in St. Petersburg, Fla.
• PNBA Fall Tradeshow Wraps Up with a Day of Education
• TV: Carême
• Louise Erdrich Wins Gish Prize
• Sales Floor Display: 'National Day for Truth & Reconciliation' 
• Threshing Day Midnight Release Party at Deadtime Stories
• Reese's October Book Club Pick: Sophie, Standing There
• Broom Book & Candle Opening This Fall in Denver, Colo.
• Molly Guptill Manning & John Mutter on Telling the Stories of Unsung Heroes
• Andrea Fleck-Nisbet Named President, Quarto Group U.S.
• Executive Changes at Hachette Book Group 
• Scholastic to Acquire Cottage Door Press
• Personnel Changes at Sourcebooks
• Media Heat: Madeline Miller on Here & Now
• Image of the Day: The Liberation of Jane Carter
• Reading with... Rachel Pastan
• Starred YA Review: What Rough Beast
• Globe Pequot Publishing Group Buys C&T Publishing
• Voice of the Heartland Award Goes to David Underwood
• TV: Icebreaker
• Awards: Mo Siewcharran Winner
• U.S. Customer in Canada Inspires Cross-Border Bookstore Connection
• 3 of Cups Bookstore & Commons Coming to Olathe, Kan.
• Sahaptin Stories in Portland, Ore., Hosts Grand Opening for Physical Storefront
• Cool Idea: A Very Special Book Anniversary Event at Reasonable Books, Lafayette, Calif.
• Obituary Note: Peter May
• Chalkboard: Grit City Books
• Image of the Day: John Green and Angie Thomas
• Media Heat: Mahmoud Khalil on Fresh Air
• PNBA Fall Tradeshow Kicks off in Portland
• Starred Review: Wild Aster
• PNBA Annual Meeting: Growth and Challenges
• TV: Ministry of Time
• Bookshop Moment: As the Page Turns
• Media Heat: Kyle MacLachlan on Fresh Air
• Obituary Note: Rose Friedman
• Off Planet Books and Puzzles Lands in Pleasant Hill, Iowa
• Scholastic First Quarter: Revenues Down 4%; 'Strong Early Indicators' for Fall
• Bridget's Bookshelf Debuts in Council Bluffs, Iowa
• Awards: Australian Fiction Longlist 
• Book Trailer of the Day: Look! A Bear!
• Review: The River at the End of the River: Poems
• Chalkboard: Shared Stories Books
• Image of the Day: Kepler's Hosts Ke Huy Quan
• Top Library Recommended Titles for October
• New Owners for Vroman's and Book Soup
• Grand Opening for Little Fox Bookshop, Southbury, Conn., this Weekend 
• Movies: Fake Skating
• Staff Shoutout: Parnassus Books
• Awards: PEN Heaney Shortlist
• The Novel Narwhal Relocates in Roanoke, Tex.
• Periwinkle Books Opens in Bronxville, N.Y.
• Bookseller Dog: Rugby at Interabang Books
• Image of the Day: Transgender Scholars at Bureau of General Services--Queer Division
• Book Trailer of the Day: Visible
• Reading with... Ankur Thakkar
• Review: Fabrications
• Attainment: New Titles Out Next Week
• Awards: Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Finalists
• Northtown Books, Arcata, Calif., Reopens After Devastating Fire
• Chalkboard: Odd Bird Bookshop
• This Weekend on Book TV: Gov. Andy Beshear
• Leadership Transition at PEN/Faulkner Foundation
• IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites
• Robert Gray: BA U.K.'s Annual Conference: 'Not an Amazon Bot Review in Sight'
• Media Heat: Cheyenne Roundtree on Fresh Air
• 'When Your TBR Pile Catches You at the Bookstore (Again)'
• Image of the Day: Books & Books Hosts Haberman and Navarro
• Sis's Stories, Grand Ledge, Mich. Sets Grand Opening for Physical Storefront
• Book Trailer of the Day: Fierce Attachments: A Life with Cats
• Starred Review: The Best Journey in the World: An Antarctic Story
• St. Mary's College of Maryland Outsources Bookstore to B&N College
• The Understory Opens in Tahoe City, Calif.
• TV: Smilla's Sense of Snow
• Awards: Booker Shortlist; Wainwright Winners
• Handselling POV: 'Convincing You the Book You've Never Heard of Is Great'
• Booksellers Celebrate Baby-Sitters Club's 40th Birthday
• Obituary Note: Terry Denton
• AAP Sales: Up 14% in July; Year to Date Up 5.4%
• IPG Adds Five Publishers
• Media Heat: Taylor Tomlinson on the Drew Barrymore Show
• Image of the Day: Alexis Krasilovsky at Book Soup
• Book Trailer of the Day: Mother Dearest
• Reading with... Linda Kass
• YA Review: The Unpoetic Life of August Grey
• Grand Opening Set for Mystic Tomes Fantasy Bookstore, Wolfforth, Tex.
• Trailhead Books, Raytown, Mo., Closing Bricks-and-Mortar Store
• Columbia University Press to Distribute Some Ediciones Uniandes Titles
• Awards: Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Winners
• Grand Opening for Our Roots & Stories, Texarkana, Tex., this Saturday
• Hidden Worlds Books, Hillsboro, Ore., Hosts Grand Opening
• Bookseller's Autumn Moment: City Lights Books
• NEIBA Fall Conference: Jill Lepore on The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State
• Image of the Day: An Accident of Birth at Zibby's Bookshop
• Obituary Note: David Martin
• International Update: 'The Bookshop I'd Like to Thank' Initiative in U.K.; Brussels Bookshops Adapting
• Media Heat: Dana Bash on CBS Mornings
• TV: Maigret Season 2
• 'Editing a Quiet Day at the Bookstore like a Reality TV Show'
• Book Trailer of the Day: Mischief and Monsters
• Review: Preparing for Nothingness
• Marketplace: 'Brick and Mortar Bookstores Are Back'
• Media Heat: Gov. Andy Beshear on the View
• 'POV: You're a Book in a Bookstore'
• Bookshop First Date: Monarch Books
• Obituary Note: Bonnie Greer
• Bitter Lemon Press Launches Labyrinth Press
• Awards: Dayton Literary Peace Winners
• NEIBA Fall Conference: 'Independent Bookstores Create Citizens'
• Barnes & Noble Buys Levenger
• Book Trailer of the Day: Between Chapters
• Review: Winter Song
• Image of the Day: Thunder Road Books Hosts Harlan Coben
• Pulp & Press Reopens as Amelia's in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
• Movies: The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
• Bookseller Cat: Teddy at the Author Shoppe
• Happy Fifth Birthday, Betty's Books!
• Cool Idea: 'Book Tastings'
• National Book Award Longlist: Fiction
• Obituary Note: Deirdre McDermott
• Phil Klay Named President of PEN America 
• Media Heat: Serena Wolf on Good Morning America
• NEIBA Fall Conference: It's a Wrap
• NEIBA Fall Conference: 'Every Event Is a Special Event'
• Bookshop Moment: The Green Dragon Bookshop
• Awards: Sunburst Winners
• Letterpress Play & Books, Austin, Tex., Sets October Debut in New Space
• 'Keeping Bookshops Open Makes Books Accessible and Keeps Reading Relevant'
• Image of the Day: Challenging Sheinkin
• Reading with... Kasey Lansdale
• Starred Review: Fieldwork as a Sex Object
• Awards: New England Book, Golden Poppy Winners
• Attainment: New Titles Out Next Week
• Sales Floor Display: 'Non-Human People'
• Good Girl Cafe & Bookstore Debuts in Englewood, Colo., After Delay
• National Book Award Longlists: Nonfiction, Poetry
• Obituary Note: Annie Dillard
• This Weekend on Book TV: Jonathan Weber on City on the Edge
• IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites
• Robert Gray: Provincetown Recipe--Just Add a Bookseller, a Cookbook, & Anthony Bourdain
• NEIBA Fall Conference