• Spring Forum Oakland Snapshot
• Save the Date and Book Your Hotel Room: Spring Forum San Pedro
• Binc: Do Good All Year
• CALIBA Board of Director Nominations Close Monday!
• Dates and Deadlines
• Bestseller Lists
• Classifieds
• Bookseller Resources

Thank you to those who attended our Spring Forum in Oakland!

Attendees, please fill out the Spring Forum evaluation form. Your feedback is valuable to us, allowing our team to improve future CALIBA events. 

Spring Forum: San Pedro

Where? LA Yacht Club

When? All day May 22nd, 2024

Book Your Hotel Room!

Hotel Block Deadline: April 20th

Book through the link or call 1-800-222-TREE (8733)

and give the representative our group code: CIB

More details to come.

Binc has launched its annual spring fundraising campaign to increase the number of monthly donors. Comic book publisher BOOM! Studios will make a $50 gift on behalf of the first 100 donors who pledge a new or increased monthly commitment to the Book Industry Charitable (Binc) Foundation before April 28.

A monthly donation of any amount $5 or above will help unlock BOOM! Studios' $5,000 gift AND help CALIBA win an ice cream party!

CALIBA’s Board of Directors invites you to join the dynamic team that helps steer the organization to best serve our indie bookselling community. 

If you are interested in nominating yourself or another bookseller, email Recruiting Committee Chair, Mark O’Neal.

Nominations to the board will close on Monday, April 15th. Ballots will be sent to bookstore principal members on May 1st and voting will close on May 15th.

• April 19: Deadline to apply for the 2024 Diverse Voices Fellowship

• April 27: Independent Bookstore Day

• May 22: Spring Forum San Pedro

• June 10-12: Children's Institute

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

• Sept. 22-28: Banned Books Week

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* Managing Partner - Fair Arrow Books + Goods, Martinez
• Independent Retail Marketing Manager - Simon & Schuster
• Night Manager - City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco
• Frontline Bookseller - City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco
• 2024 Diverse Fellowship Opportunity - Antiquarian Book School Foundation
• 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

Click here for a complete list.

Support CALIBA

Publishers support CALIBA when bookstores participate.

Bookstore Participation = Publisher Sponsorship = CALIBA = Bookstore Education, Advocacy, Networking +++

Ann Seaton, Stonyford 415-561-7686 ext. 101