Archive for Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for the book trade

• 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
• Awards: Deborah Rogers Winner
• Reading with... Chloe Gong
• YA Review: There's Always Next Year
• Book Trailer of the Day: This Is a Message to Persons Unknown
• Image of the Day: Bridging the Gap in Boston
• Booker Winner: Flesh by David Szalay
• Sidelines Snapshot: Stickers, Candles, Chocolates, and Cards
• Image of the Day: Horseshoe Crabs at Water Street
• Awards: Christy Winners
• Personnel Changes at Kaye Publicity
• Top-Selling Self-Published Titles
• Movies: The Wizard of the Kremlin
• Obituary Note: Ellen Bryant Voigt
• Review: The Snakes That Ate Florida: Reporting, Essays, and Criticism
• Bright Side Bookshop, Flagstaff, Ariz., Unveils Wall Mural
• Media Heat: Marion Nestle on Fresh Air
• Book Trailer of the Day: Green Crime
• The Best Bookstore in Union Square Coming Soon to San Francisco, Calif.
• Media Heat: Rep. Jim Clyburn on CBS Mornings, the View
• TV: The Last Thing He Told Me Season 2
• Books-A-Million Opens Stafford, Va., Store
• Obituary Note: Gillian Tindall 
• Review: Is This a Cry for Help?
• 'Booksellers Are Always Enthusiastic Nerds with Deep Wells of Knowledge'
• Reading Group Choices' Most Popular October Books
• Happy 150th Birthday, Anderson's Bookshops!
• Bookstores' Food Drives
• Awards: Dr. Tony Ryan Winner
• Back Again Bookshop, Myrtle Beach, S.C., Adds New Book Room
• Image of the Day: Booksellers Gathering in St. Paul
• Book Trailer of the Day: There Are No Silly Questions
• Len Vlahos on His New Book, The Story of Oog, His New Publishing House, and More
• Black Friday Grand Opening for Spellbound Bookshop, LaGrange, Ga.
• Personnel Changes at Bloomsbury Children's
• On Stage: The Hunger Games
• Movies: Simultaneous
• Grand Opening Set for Bird Rock Bookshop in La Jolla, Calif.
• Awards: Governor General's Literary Winners
• Reese's November Book Club Pick: Wild Dark Shore
• International Update: Rafferty to Succeed Young as Canongate Chair; EIBF's Charter on AI
• TEDx Talk: 'Bookselling Is a Conversation with Its Community'
• Little, Brown Books for Young Readers: New Imprint, Editorial Changes
• Richard Charkin Named Chair of Thames & Hudson
• Bookseller Moment: Uncle Bobbie's Coffee & Books
• Image of the Day: Sisters in Death at Rainy Day Books
• Reading with... Philip Marsden
• Review: Dandelion Is Dead
• 'Indie Bookstores Sustain Me'
• Selected Stories Arrives in Portland, Ore.
• Attainment: New Titles Out Next Week
• Books-A-Million's Inaugural Book of the Year Pick
• Morally Gray Romance Bookstore Opens in Newnan, Ga.
• Bookstore Video: 'We Hear 6-7 Is Cool'
• This Weekend on Book TV: The Texas Book Festival
• Awards: Winners of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction, Goldsmiths Prize for Fiction
• Book Trailer of the Day: How to Teach a Monster
• B&N Opening Stores Next Week in Mich., Ohio, and Tex.
• Robert Gray: Living in 'Book Time'
• Media Heat: Rainn Wilson on the View
• Top Book Club Picks in October
• Stella House Books, Carmel, Ind., Breaking Ground for Spring '26 Opening
• Nature + Nurture, Salem, Ohio, Relocating and Expanding
• IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites
• Review: Generator
• Image of the Day: Sea Change at Brazos Bookstore
• Movies: The Hemingway Files
• Indie Booksellers Get Out the Vote
• Awards: Books Are My Bag Readers Winners
• Little District Books Relocates in Washington, D.C.
• Storm Damage Update: Chapters Books and Gifts, Seward, Neb.
• Image of the Day: The Pumphrey Brothers Go Back to School
• Shelf Awareness Delivers Indie Pre-Order E-Blast
• Book Group Speed Dating Event This Friday
• Media Heat: Michelle Obama on the Sherri Shepherd Show
• B&N's November Book Club Pick: Like Family
• Chalkboard: Wicked Good Books
• Bookshop Video: 'What It's Like to Own a Book Yarn Game Jigsaw Puzzle Store'
• Reading with... Malala Yousafzai
• Starred Children's Review: What a Small Cat Needs
• Tesseract Books Holds Grand Opening in Yellow Springs, Ohio
• Read with Jenna November Book Club Pick
• Bookseller Cat: Caramel at Back Again Bookshop 
• TV: Foster Dade
• Seekers Bookshop Comes to Colville, Wash.
• Nye Beach Book House in Newport, Ore., to Close 
• Obituary Note: Zoë Wicomb
• Image of the Day: Louise Penny at the Haskell Free Library
• Awards: Blackwell's Book of the Year Shortlist
• Top-Selling Self-Published Titles
• Book Trailer of the Day: Winning the Earthquake
• Media Heat: Susan Orlean on Here & Now
• Starred Review: Black Bear: A Story of Siblinghood and Survival
• The Flora Shelves Coming to Appleton, Wis., Next Year
• Ten Trees Books, Natick, Mass., Reopens in Permanent Location
• Cool Idea: Free Books, Puzzles for People Affected by the Shutdown
• Utah Book Banners: Bookstores' 'Best Marketing Team'
• Movies: Valley of Ashes to Netflix
• Chalkboard: Highland Books
• Amazon's Third Quarter: AWS, AI Gains Lead to All-Time Stock High
• Image of the Day: MrBallen at WORD Bookstore in Jersey City
• Review: Meet the Newmans
• Macmillan Buys Book and Audiobook Catalogs of Sounds True
• Powell's Books Layoffs Total 31 Since June
• Awards: World Fantasy Winners; Cundill History Winner
• Media Heat: Patti Smith on CBS Mornings
• Book Trailer of the Day: Exposure
• Love Spell Books Opens in Summerville, S.C.
• Libro.fm Bestsellers in October
• Bookshop Moment: White River Books
• The Little Bubblegum Bookshop Opens in Providence, R.I.
• Poor Charlotte's Books Opens in Covington, Ky.
• BISG Launches 'Season of Giving' Challenge 
• Haunting Chalkboard: Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore
• Halloween Handselling Dilemma: Russo's Books
• TV: The Odessa File
• Thrillerdelphia Opening Today in Philadelphia, Pa.
• Obituary Note: Tim Cook
• Awards: Waterstones Book of the Year Shortlist
• AAP Sales: 4.4% Drop in August; Trade Down 9.4%
• International Update: South Korean Dept. Stores Rediscover Books; U.K. Indie Publisher Knights Of Is Closing
• Personnel Changes at Simon & Schuster Publisher Services; Macmillan
• Book Nerd in Castle Hills, Tex., Celebrates Grand Opening
• Spooky Image of the Day: BYO Flashlight at Brazos Bookstore
• Book Trailer of the Day: The Future of Storytelling
• Reading with... Edward McPherson
• Review: The List of Suspicious Things
• Attainment: New Titles Out Next Week
• Image of the Day: Richmond, Va., Booksellers
• For Sale: Camino Books, Del Mar, Calif.
• Awards: Scotland's National Book Shortlists
• This Weekend on Book TV: The Southern Festival of Books
• Robert Gray; Indie Booksellers, Halloween, & the Xmas Creep
• IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites
• B&N Opening Stores Next Week in Tex., Calif., Colo., and N.Y.
• Personnel Changes at Simon & Schuster
• Shelf Awareness Polls Best Reads, Most Anticipated Titles at Four Regionals
• Media Heat: Malala Yousafzai on the Tonight Show
• Dreamers Books + Culture Opens in Houston, Tex.
• Book Trailer of the Day: Mind over Mood
• Swoon City Debuts in Seattle, Wash.
• Answering Customer Requests: 'Is There Somewhere I Can Sit and Read a Book?'
• Review: Three Stories of Forgetting
• Personnel Changes at Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
• Of Moose and Mind Bookshop Opens in Manlius, N.Y.
• Abrams Takes on Marketing, Sales, & Distribution of Taunton Books
• Movies: Heartbeats
• Ladybird Books Opening Tomorrow in Charleston, S.C.
• Awards: Patrick White Literary Winner
• Obituary Note: Bob Roarty
• Cool Idea of the Day: 'Books After Dark' at Weller Book Works
• Media Heat: David Burtka on the Sherri Shepherd Show
• Daydrift Cafe & Bookstore Debuts in Arlington, Va.
• Secret to a Happy Marriage: 'Weekly Bookstore Dates'
• Reading with... Maddie Ballard
• Starred YA Review: Persephone's Curse
• Book Trailer of the Day: Lead to Beat
• Storytime Bookshop in Kennewick, Wash., Relocates 
• Personnel Changes at Little Bee Books
• Consortium Adds Five Publishers
• Media Heat: Judd Apatow on Fresh Air
• TV: Project: MKUltra
• Indie Readery & Records Opens in Pittsfield, Mass.
• New Name, Location for Fergie's Bookshops in Fargo, N.Dak. 
• Awards: Forward Poetry Winners; Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Shortlist
• L.A.'s Chevalier's Books Has New Co-Owner
• University of Minnesota Press Director Armato to Retire
• Top-Selling Self-Published Titles
• Starred Review: Cape Fever
• Book Trailer of the Day: Train Your Brain to Beat Chronic Pain
• Image of the Day: Thunder Road's Book Club Hosts Lauren Grodstein
• 2nd & Charles Closes Bossier City, La., Location
• Green Apple's Vanessa Martini Reports on the Frankfurt Book Fair
• Media Heat: Jonathan Karl on Good Morning America, the View
• Thank You Books, Birmingham, Ala., Is Expanding
• The Wandering Soul in Sharon, Pa., to Close
• Review: Winter Stories
• Movies: Last Night In Montreal
• Book Trailer of the Day: I Wanted to Be Wonderful
• Bookseller Video: The Dreadful Bookshop
• Awards: PEN Heaney Poetry Shortlist
• Image of the Day: Author Series Booked in Providence, R.I.
• Top Library Recommended Titles for November
• 'Seeing My Book in All of These Bookstores... Is a Dream Come True'
• Old Haunts Bookshop Coming to Granite Bay, Calif.
• The Children's Booker Prize to Launch in 2026
• TV: Dark Winds
• The Enchanted Forest Bookshop Opens in Snohomish, Wash., Tomorrow
• Sign of the Times: City Lights Flies 'Pity the Nation' Banners
• On Stage: The Fitzgeralds of St. Paul
• Nook & Press Debuts Saturday in San Angelo, Tex.
• Awards: B&N Book of the Year Finalists
• Halloween Storefront Display: Cellar Bird Books
• Frankfurt 2025: Bookselling in Times of War
• International Update: Kate Elton Named CEO, HarperCollins UK; Booksellers Condemn Amazon France's Delivery Discount
• 'Why the Credit Card Competition Act Matters'
• Image of the Day: Craft Night at the Bookies
• Bookshop Video: Godmothers Bookstore
• Reading with... Hester Kaplan
• Review: Canticle
• Judge Issues Permanent Injunction Against Much of Texas's READER Act
• The Stacks Bookstore Shares 'Highlights from This Week'
• Image of the Day: HarperCollins Breaks Ground in Indiana
• Bookseller Moment: The Green Dragon Bookshop
• Obituary Note: Ruth Weiss
• B&N Opening New Stores in Palm Harbor, Fla., & Cheshire, Conn. 
• IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites
• This Weekend on Book TV: Printers Row Lit Fest
• Personnel Changes at Sourcebooks
• Media Heat: Roy Wood Jr. on the View