• Update: California's Antitrust Law Hearing (The Cartwright Act)
• Tri-West Summer School
• Holiday Catalog Orders are Closed
• Coming Soon... Discord for CALIBA Bookseller Members!
• July is#MarginsBooksellingMonth!
• From our Friends at the ABA - ABACUS
• Fall Fest 2024: You Can Book Your Room Now!
• Dates and Deadlines
• Bestseller Lists
• Classifieds
• Bookseller Resources

Thank you to all of our members who sent in personal statements for last week's Antitrust Hearing. Committee members heard from representatives from Google, Yelp, and various experts before opening up the floor to the public to share experiences, good or bad, with large tech corporations. Hannah read a personal statement on behalf of Emily Autenrieth, owner of A Seat at the Table Books in Sacramento and Elayna Trucker, Buyer and Operations Manager at Napa Bookmine, read her own personal statement. This is an on-going conversation that the CALIBA staff and Political Advocacy committee will continue to monitor. The following expert report meeting will be: August 15, 2024 - Concerted Action, Consumer Welfare Standard, & Enforcement and Exemptions. CALIBA will keep you posted on any new updates in our newsletter.

Click here for more details on Antitrust Law B-750, status updates, submitted comments, and meeting minutes.

These FREE, virtual summertime sessions offer professional development and networking opportunities for every bookseller, no travel required!

Co-produced by CALIBA, MPIBA and PNBA.

Next sessions:

• 7/17: BOOKSHOP.ORG & E-BOOKS
• 7/24: ASK AN EXPERT: BASIC BOOKKEEPING FOR BOOKSTORES.
• 7/31: BEST PRACTICES FOR SELLING USED BOOKS: ROUND TABLE
• 8/7: AN INTRODUCTION TO CO-OP
• 8/14: EVERY BOOKSELLER IS A CHILDREN'S BOOKSELLER.
• 8/21: USING DATA TO UNDERSTAND YOUR EVENT PROGRAM
• 8/28: ASK AN EXPERT: BUDGETING FOR BOOKSELLERS

Missed the Live Event? Watch the Recording!

• 6/19: HOW TO MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR REGIONAL MEMBERSHIP: ROUNDTABLE. Watch here!

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR SESSIONS

Catalogs Shipped to Stores and Newspapers - October 1

Catalogs Mailed to Consumers - November 1

Prep for your buys and handselling by going over the catalog titles ahead of time. Click here for the Edelweiss list.

Have any questions?

Email Emma at emma@caliballiance.org

Launching in July...

CALIBA Discord for Bookseller Members!

A new way to connect with booksellers, share successes, ask questions, coordinate carpools to tradeshows, and even share pictures of your pets! Watch your inboxes in the next couple of weeks for instructions to access our Discord.

From our friends at The Word, A Storytelling Sanctuary:

This July, The Word, A Storytelling Sanctuary presents the fourth annual #MarginsBookselling Month. The goal of this program is to celebrate BIPOC, LGBTQIA2S+, neurodiverse, and disabled booksellers - a community that works tirelessly to get our books into the hands of readers. We are excited to support 200+ booksellers and showcase 150+ bookstores via our map and database that are working to center diverse voices and stories. This year we are collaborating with Bookshop, Libro.fm, Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, and industry advocate Danny Caine, co-owner of Raven Bookstore in Lawrence, KS, and author of How to Fight Amazon and Why and How to Protect Bookstores and Why, amongst others. Together we will highlight booksellers and the work they do and celebrate bookstores and booksellers. We will host a GIVEAWAY, plus stay tuned for our list of events. You can check out our past events here to get an idea of what we are cooking up.

Find out more and view the map on their site!

ABACUS, We Like You!

There's still a month remaining to complete your ABACUS report, ABA’s free annual financial benchmarking survey! Not only is ABACUS an incredibly useful tool for your business, it also helps ABA in our work to support you! Review the graphic below to see how ABACUS benefits your store and the larger bookselling community, Booksellers have until July 21 to submit their responses. If you would like assistance, or are participating for the first time, ABA CFO (and former bookstore owner) PK Sindwani will be offering several ABACUS workshops with step-by-step instructions for completing the questionnaire. Visit BookWeb to register for the session that works best for you. Click here for more and complete the questionnaire.

Q3 Marketing

These guides and handouts feature the quarter's holidays and observances and are full of ideas and language you can use in the bookstore.

September 17 & 18 at the Pasadena Hilton Hotel

168 S Los Robles Ave, Pasadena CA 91101

To secure a room, book by August 27

($209 + taxes a night)

Registration opens August 1st.

Scholarship form to come!

• June: Pride, Immigrant Heritage, and Audiobook Appreciation Month

• July: #MarginsBooksellingMonth

• July 17 @ 12PM: Summer School - Bookshop.org & E-books

• July 21: Deadline for ABACUS responses

• July 24 @ 12PM: Summer School - Ask an Expert: Basic Bookkeeping for Stores

• July 31 @ 11AM: Summer School - Best Practices for Selling Used Books: Round Table

• August 7 @ 12PM: Summer School - Introduction to Co-op

• August 14 @ 12PM: Summer School - Every Bookseller is a Children's Bookseller

• August 21 @ 12PM: Summer School - Using Data to Understand Your Event Program

• August 27: Deadline to Reserve Room for Fall Fest at Pasadena Hilton Hotel

• August 28 @ 12PM: Summer School - Ask an Expert: Budgeting for Bookstores

• Sept. 17 & 18: CALIBA Fall Trade Show

• Sept. 22-28: Banned Books Week

• October 1: Holiday Catalogs Shipped to Stores and Newspapers

• November 1: Holiday Catalogs Mailed to Consumers

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* Adult Book Buyer - Changing Hands Bookstore (Phoenix, AZ)
• Telesales Account Manager, Western Region - Simon & Schuster
• Managing Partner - Fair Arrow Books + Goods, Martinez

• Join the CALIBA Edelweiss 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 +++

Hannah Walcher, Executive Director

Livermore CA 94550