• #SBADumpAmazon Online Day of Action
• Save the Date! Spring Forum - San Pedro
• Spring Forum Oakland - Register Now!
• Children's Institute 2024 New Orleans - Register Today!
• Order Your FREE Summer Catalog
• The Bookseller Oral History Project
• Dates and Deadlines
• Bestseller Lists
• Classifieds
• Bookseller Resources

As part of Small Business Rising, a coalition of 40+ coalition of independent businesses and entrepreneurs, the American Booksellers Association is declaring this March 20 “SBA: Dump Amazon!” Day. And we want you to join us that day (and beyond) for a social media campaign designed to put public pressure on the SBA to end its partnership with Amazon.

Who: Small Business Rising members and small business owners around the country

What: Demand that the Small Business Administration drop Amazon as a sponsor of National Small Business Week by posting social media assets with the hashtag #SBADumpAmazon

Where: On official business social media accounts: Instagram, Facebook, X (aka Twitter), and Threads

When: Wednesday, March 20. Morning until…SBA drops Amazon as a co-sponsor. PLEASE DO NOT POST BEFORE MARCH 20!

Why: Because small businesses deserve advocates with their best interests at heart

Download social media assets here.

Find out more and sign up here.

Click here for a list of lawmakers and influencers to consider tagging.

Who else will you tag?

Spring Forum Oakland 4/3/24 - Register Now!

Need a hotel room? Book by March 14th to secure CALIBA's discounted rate. 

Online registration closes on March 22. We welcome registration at the door.

Scholarships available.

Speed Dating Snapshot:

Children’s Institute 2024 (Ci2024) will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana!

• Thursday, March 7: Registration opens at 10:00 am PT.
• Children’s Institute Registration: $275
• Thursday, March 28: Hotel Registration opens.
• $189 plus tax per night
• April: Bookstore Tour Registration opens.

FREE to CALIBA bookstores

• Make it your own with a stamp or store sticker.
• A simple handout for your store, great for off-site events.
• No newspaper or mailing to coordinate (we’ll do all of this for the fall catalog.)

An online catalog is also available

• Integrates with your IndieCommerce, Bookshop, Bookmanager, or Handseller websites. 
• Include it through all of your marketing platforms. 
• Send at your convenience. (We are not working with the structured Shelf Awareness platform.)

Signing up takes just five minutes!

Missed the RAMP info session? Watch the RAMP 101 recording!

The Bookseller Oral History Project, which collects interviews with current and former booksellers about their historical experiences, insights, and perspectives, will be part of a new initiative to build an archive on the history of bookselling at the University of Iowa Libraries Special Collections and Archive. The Project's audio files and transcripts will eventually be available to researchers and the public.

The University of Iowa Library Special Collections is expanding its archive with a focus on the history of bookselling. Beginning with the Bookseller Oral History Project, the Library seeks donations of papers and other materials that document and preserve the history of booksellers and bookstores. 

If you would like to be interviewed, contribute by carrying out an interview, or suggest a colleague to be interviewed, please contact us at info@bookstorechronicles.org

For more information, contact Lanora Jennings, director of the Bookseller Oral History Project, or J. Eric Ensley, MLS, PhD, curator of Rare Books & Maps, Special Collections & Archives, University of Iowa.

• March: Indie Press Month

• *Today!* Thursday, March 7: Ci2024 Registration Opens

• March 13: Deadline to nominate a bookseller for the James Patterson Bookseller Bonus Program

• March 20: "SBA Dump Amazon" Day Social Media Blitz

• March 31: Last day to sign up for Independent Bookstore Day general participation

• April 3: Oakland Spring Forum

• May 22: Spring Forum San Pedro

• June 10-12: Children's Institute

• Sept. 17 & 18: Fall Trade Show - Pasadena Hilton

Click here for the Los Angeles Times & Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestseller List

Click here for the San Francisco Chronicle & Northern California Independent Bookstore Bestseller List

• *New* Executive Director - Books Inc. Reading Bridge
• Bookseller, Children's Department - Mrs. Dalloway's Literary and Garden Art Store, Berkeley
• Reading Group Choices for Sale
• Childrens Book Specialist - Book Passage, Corte Madera
• Calling all LA Bookstores and Pop-Ups! - Bookstore Crawl 2024

• Join the CALIBA Edelweis Community - Email Valentina
• Golden Poppy Awards 2023 Resources: digital toolkit, finalist and winners lists, and awards ceremony
• The Brown Bookshelf
• Anti-Censorship Resources
• Binc Foundation's Mental Health Program
• Panorama Picks - Books in Demand at US Libraries

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