CORONA VIRUS
Resources and information for your store and employees
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Tools Bookstores Are Finding Useful
Where to find supplies for reopening:
ShopPOPDisplays: Plexiglass Sneeze Guard Bayside Printed Products: Masks, signs, gloves (customizable) best to call or email Emily Keyser For live streaming FaceBook Live Instagram Live Crowdcast: Live video Q&As, interviews, summits, webinars and more. Integrates withe Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and many more. Be.Live: Integrates with FaceBook. Zoom -Zoom Best Practices EventBrite: Sell tickets to your virtual events Microsoft Teams ABA's list of resources Sell Books Online
IndieCommerce & IndieCommerce Lite: Shipping and in-store pick-up options Bookshop.org: Shipping only (no in-store pick-up) Membership platforms
Patreon Email Marketing Mailchimp offers existing customers 3 months free service. 
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Shipping & Delivery
*New! Ingram Recommends 12/16 as final date to
order for Christmas Based on anticipated high volumes and the holiday calendars of our carriers, Ingram is recommending the following as the last days you should order to ship in time for Christmas:
Find your federal & State Elected Officials California: Governor Gavin Newson Find & Contact My State Legislator Federal: Find & Contact My US House Representative Contact My US Senators Covid Bill Tracker by state California Specific Resources
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Thanks to our industry for their support of indie bookstores!
Peachtree:
On the Resources Hub, people can find a variety of educational and entertaining resources—including access to virtual storytimes, activity sheets and kits, discussion guides, and Common Core-aligned teacher’s guides. Read-aloud permission information is also there, as well as videos of authors and illustrators talking about their books and demonstrating at-home activities, and details on authors available for virtual events. The page will be updated regularly with new resources.
From Candlewick:
To keep kids actively reading books in any format while so many bookstores, schools and libraries are closed, Candlewick is funding some amazing markdowns on Kobo ebooks through the end of May. Check these deals out!
100 Ebooks for $1.00 Promotion: One hundred Candlewick ebooks are $1.00 each - includes such favorites as Julian is a Mermaid, : Nightingale, and Feed.
Series Starter Promotion: Ebook #1 in a series is FREE and the rest of the books in the series are 50% off. Includes such popular series as Emily Windsnap, Judy Moody, Princess in Black, and Mercy Watson.
20% Off Promotion: Finally, almost every other title in Candlewick’s ebook catalog is 20% off list price.
Click here for a list of all the ebooks included in the aforementioned promotions. This grid shows the original ebook retail price and what Kobo may discount to (Kobo sets the ultimate price to consumer).
Candlewick is offering an incremental $50 co-op for indie accounts which promote Ann Patchett's most wonderful and inspiring essay that appeared in the New York Times: on their websites. Please contact your rep for details.
Macmillan has posted their first-ever virtual event grids to Edelweiss, as well as an offer to share some digital marketing tips for successful virtual/live streaming events. Email Melissa.Campion@macmillan.com for more info or start requesting authors now - they're sharing requests with publicists daily, as they come in. Macmillan also shared an at home activity kit for Finding Kindness, and has more available on their website.
Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing offers free curriculum guides, reading group guides, as well as kid-friendly activities to do at home. Visit their Read & Learn with Simon Kids website for links to those resources. Simon & Schuster has added buy buttons to all Simon & Schuster websites, and the company is encouraging its authors to add the Bookshop.org links to their own websites and social media posts.
Sourcebooks sent much cheer with the March edition of Book Tipsy (their newsletter with a little extra) by sharing free activities for kids at home and for those of legal (day) drinking age two drink recipes: Orange Dream Mimosa and Vodka Quarantini!
Holiday House: Story time kits and activity pages and author resources.
Europa Books:
FEATURED INDIE
Each week, we will feature a different indie bookstore in our newsletter, informing readers of our newsletter and our followers on social media about the many creative ways in which bookstores across the country are dealing with the current emergency. Contact us if you would like us to feature your store and how to support you.
BOOK DONATIONS
Interested in receiving a donation of Europa books? Email us and we’ll send you a selection of exciting new releases, beloved bestsellers, and hidden gems. We don't know how fast shipping will be on this, or how easy receiving on your end will be, but while ever we can, we're pleased to partner in this way.
SPECIAL CONTENT
With our authors' and translators' help, we are busily producing interviews, Q&A sessions, readings of excerpts, e-excerpts, and special content of every kind. Whether it's for new upcoming books or backlist bestsellers, we will be creating and sharing more online resources than ever. If you are interested in accessing any of this new content for your store’s social media, website, or live events, please let us know!
E-GALLEY BONANZA
E-galleys of titles publishing in the spring and fall will be widely available both on Edelweiss and for direct download. More details on this coming soon!
SUPPORT FROM INGRAM
Our distributor Ingram Content Group/PGW understands exactly how important indie stores are to us and to other publishers like Europa. They have announced new measures to assist the independent stores that are operative at this time, including flexible terms, backend support, and direct-to-home delivery. To learn more, click here.
The University of Minnesota Press is offering the following terms to independent bookstore accounts from now through May 31st: +5% discount on all orders, free shipping on domestic orders of 15 or more units, and net 90-day payment period for any accounts that are currently on net 30. To qualify for these terms, please send all orders through your University of Minnesota sales representative (a list can be found here).
Workman (7/6/2020)
Effective June 1st, Workman’s “FLATN” promo code will run through the end of 2020 with an updated minimum of 10 units per order. This promo includes additional discount, free freight, and 120-day dating. This offer is available to independent retailers and multiple orders are allowed.
Workman is featuring a select number of authors across all imprints in their first-ever Virtual Event Grid. There is no due date for this grid; stores may submit their requests at their leisure and those requests will immediately be forwarded to the respective publicist.
In partnership with Abrams Books, Bloomsbury Publishing, Candlewick Press, Chronicle Books, Sourcebooks, and BINC, Workman will be participating in Indie Shindig: fourteen separate hour-long themed weekly events, occurring each Monday at 2 p.m. EST, from Monday, June 22, through Monday, September 28. The virtual event series will cover more than 200 titles across a range of genres and authors. Event themes include debuts, award winners, young adult fiction books, gift books, new and established series, genre blenders, and more. The full events schedule for Indie Shindig can be found at: https://blog.workman.com/2020/06/youre-invited-to-indie-shindig/
Find more Publisher, wholesaler, and vendor support here! and here (Edelweiss).
Peachtree:
On the Resources Hub, people can find a variety of educational and entertaining resources—including access to virtual storytimes, activity sheets and kits, discussion guides, and Common Core-aligned teacher’s guides. Read-aloud permission information is also there, as well as videos of authors and illustrators talking about their books and demonstrating at-home activities, and details on authors available for virtual events. The page will be updated regularly with new resources.
From Candlewick:
To keep kids actively reading books in any format while so many bookstores, schools and libraries are closed, Candlewick is funding some amazing markdowns on Kobo ebooks through the end of May. Check these deals out!
100 Ebooks for $1.00 Promotion: One hundred Candlewick ebooks are $1.00 each - includes such favorites as Julian is a Mermaid, : Nightingale, and Feed.
Series Starter Promotion: Ebook #1 in a series is FREE and the rest of the books in the series are 50% off. Includes such popular series as Emily Windsnap, Judy Moody, Princess in Black, and Mercy Watson.
20% Off Promotion: Finally, almost every other title in Candlewick’s ebook catalog is 20% off list price.
Click here for a list of all the ebooks included in the aforementioned promotions. This grid shows the original ebook retail price and what Kobo may discount to (Kobo sets the ultimate price to consumer).
Candlewick is offering an incremental $50 co-op for indie accounts which promote Ann Patchett's most wonderful and inspiring essay that appeared in the New York Times: on their websites. Please contact your rep for details.
Macmillan has posted their first-ever virtual event grids to Edelweiss, as well as an offer to share some digital marketing tips for successful virtual/live streaming events. Email Melissa.Campion@macmillan.com for more info or start requesting authors now - they're sharing requests with publicists daily, as they come in. Macmillan also shared an at home activity kit for Finding Kindness, and has more available on their website.
Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing offers free curriculum guides, reading group guides, as well as kid-friendly activities to do at home. Visit their Read & Learn with Simon Kids website for links to those resources. Simon & Schuster has added buy buttons to all Simon & Schuster websites, and the company is encouraging its authors to add the Bookshop.org links to their own websites and social media posts.
Sourcebooks sent much cheer with the March edition of Book Tipsy (their newsletter with a little extra) by sharing free activities for kids at home and for those of legal (day) drinking age two drink recipes: Orange Dream Mimosa and Vodka Quarantini!
Holiday House: Story time kits and activity pages and author resources.
Europa Books:
FEATURED INDIE
Each week, we will feature a different indie bookstore in our newsletter, informing readers of our newsletter and our followers on social media about the many creative ways in which bookstores across the country are dealing with the current emergency. Contact us if you would like us to feature your store and how to support you.
BOOK DONATIONS
Interested in receiving a donation of Europa books? Email us and we’ll send you a selection of exciting new releases, beloved bestsellers, and hidden gems. We don't know how fast shipping will be on this, or how easy receiving on your end will be, but while ever we can, we're pleased to partner in this way.
SPECIAL CONTENT
With our authors' and translators' help, we are busily producing interviews, Q&A sessions, readings of excerpts, e-excerpts, and special content of every kind. Whether it's for new upcoming books or backlist bestsellers, we will be creating and sharing more online resources than ever. If you are interested in accessing any of this new content for your store’s social media, website, or live events, please let us know!
E-GALLEY BONANZA
E-galleys of titles publishing in the spring and fall will be widely available both on Edelweiss and for direct download. More details on this coming soon!
SUPPORT FROM INGRAM
Our distributor Ingram Content Group/PGW understands exactly how important indie stores are to us and to other publishers like Europa. They have announced new measures to assist the independent stores that are operative at this time, including flexible terms, backend support, and direct-to-home delivery. To learn more, click here.
The University of Minnesota Press is offering the following terms to independent bookstore accounts from now through May 31st: +5% discount on all orders, free shipping on domestic orders of 15 or more units, and net 90-day payment period for any accounts that are currently on net 30. To qualify for these terms, please send all orders through your University of Minnesota sales representative (a list can be found here).
Workman (7/6/2020)
Effective June 1st, Workman’s “FLATN” promo code will run through the end of 2020 with an updated minimum of 10 units per order. This promo includes additional discount, free freight, and 120-day dating. This offer is available to independent retailers and multiple orders are allowed.
Workman is featuring a select number of authors across all imprints in their first-ever Virtual Event Grid. There is no due date for this grid; stores may submit their requests at their leisure and those requests will immediately be forwarded to the respective publicist.
In partnership with Abrams Books, Bloomsbury Publishing, Candlewick Press, Chronicle Books, Sourcebooks, and BINC, Workman will be participating in Indie Shindig: fourteen separate hour-long themed weekly events, occurring each Monday at 2 p.m. EST, from Monday, June 22, through Monday, September 28. The virtual event series will cover more than 200 titles across a range of genres and authors. Event themes include debuts, award winners, young adult fiction books, gift books, new and established series, genre blenders, and more. The full events schedule for Indie Shindig can be found at: https://blog.workman.com/2020/06/youre-invited-to-indie-shindig/
Find more Publisher, wholesaler, and vendor support here! and here (Edelweiss).