9.12.24 CALIBA Publisher News & Information

September 12, 2024

in Publisher Newsletter,

No newsletter next week, see you at Fall Fest!

SEE YOU NEXT WEEK!

Be sure to check your listing in the Exhibit Hall.

Estimated start time for set up: 10:00 AM Tuesday, 9/17

Tuesday, 9/17: 3:20 - 6:00 PM

Wednesday, 9/18: 10:45 AM - 3:15 PM (closed for lunch)

VIEW THE SCHEDULE

Booksellers will enter to win $100 for orders placed on the floor and listing their favorite discoveries from the exhibit hall.

HUT LANDON TO RETIRE FROM MRS. DALLOWAY'S

Hut Landon, the former executive director of the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association (NCIBA), now part of the California Independent Booksellers Alliance (CALIBA), will retire from day-to-day bookselling at the Berkeley, Calif., store on September 28, although he will still assist the store in other matters. Landon has long been a fixture in the Northern California bookselling landscape; he owned Landon Books, based first in Novato and then Marin County, Calif., between 1984 and 1999, and served as ED of NCIBA from 1999 to 2015, and runs a weekly e-newsletter, “Hut’s Place: Weekly Words About Books.” - sign up for Hut's Place here!

MARK YOUR CALENDAR

September 16 @ 6PM: CALIBA Welcome Party at Vroman's
September 15-October 15: Hispanic Heritage Month
September 17 & 18: CALIBA Fall Trade Show in Pasadena
September 22-28: Banned Books Week
October 1: Holiday Catalogs Shipped to Stores and Newspapers
November 1: Holiday Catalogs Mailed to Consumers

This fall, four former staff members of Folio Books will open Noe Valley Books in the same San Francisco, Calif., storefront! Noe Valley Books hopes to open as soon as October.