Archive for Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for the book trade

• PRH Two-Day Holiday Transit Plan for Indies Returns
• Movies: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
• Awards: Premio Planeta Winner
• Chalkboard: Bookmarks
• Charlie's Queer Books, Seattle, Wash., Expanding
• Media Heat: David Treuer on Fresh Air
• Cool Idea: 'Make Your Landlord Read for Story Club Day!' 
• Image of the Day: The House Built on Alligator Bones at Story & Song
• Review: The River Drowns the Able Swimmer
• Book Trailer of the Day: Narcissi
• Parchment & Potions Opens in Prattville, Ala.
• B&N Opening Stores in Mass., Ga., & Calif.
• New Material Books in Kansas City, Mo., Closing Next Month
• Media Heat: Arian Simone on CBS Mornings
• TV: Down Cemetery Road Season 2
• Image of the Day: Shelf Awareness at the Boston Book Fair
• Obituary Note: Craig Symonds
• Awards: Derek Walcott Poetry Winner
• Review: Bright Monday
• Hachette Book Group Sales Up 4% in Third Quarter; Lagardère Up 2.4%
• Book Trailer of the Day: Àkànní and Runeless
• Personnel Changes at Cherry Lake/Sleeping Bear; New World Library
• Left on Read, Wichita, Kan., Launches Fundraising Campaign
• Bookseller Faves: October Romance
• Hauser & Wirth Gallery and Bookstore Opens in Palo Alto, Calif.
• Johns Hopkins Campus Bookstore Reopens After Follett Takeover
• AAP Sales: Up 8.9% in August; Year to Date Up 5.9%
• Shelf Awareness Delivers Kids & YA Pre-Order E-Blast
• WNBA's Great Group Reads
• Shelf Awareness Call for Information: Indies First/Small Business Saturday
• Personnel Changes at Zando
• 'When You Live in San Diego... but You Want Cozy Fall Reading Weather'
• Awards: PEN-Inge Feltrinelli Writing as Resistance Award Shortlist
• Grand Opening Today for Heart Swell Books in Tucson, Ariz.
• Image of the Day: Rose Beranbaum at Byrd's Books
• Between the Sips Romance Bookstore & Tea Room Debuts in Monument, Colo.
• Obituary Note: Elise Burns
• Media Heat: Ríoghnach Robinson on Good Morning America
• Speakers Set for Fourth Annual NYU Advanced Publishing Institute
• TV: La Caza del Ejecutor (Hunting the Executioner)
• Chalkboard: Main Street Books
• Reading with... Joe R. Lansdale
• Review: I Love the Whole World!
• Attainment: New Titles Out Next Week
• Media Heat: Ryan Bartlow on Good Morning America
• Obituary Note: Mandasue Heller 
• Awards: Nancy Flight Writers' Trust Nonfiction Editing Finalists
• Bookseller Moment: Garden Wall Bookshop
• The Reading Tree Bookshop Coming to Charlotte, N.C.
• Frankfurt Book Fair 2026: From Apathy to Action
• IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites
• Robert Gray: Bookshop Day 2026--'We Are Cultural Powerhouses'
• This Weekend on Book TV: The Baltimore and Jackson Hole Book Festivals
• 'Don't Ghost Your Friend's Small Business!'
• For Gift and Sidelines Buyers: Shelf Awareness Offers Trip to Total Home & Gift Market
• Starred Review: Instant Classic: A Love Story
• Image of the Day: Denise Derya Brandt at Roebling Books & Coffee
• The Perfect Page on the Road in Conn.
• Personnel Changes at Batch
• Image of the Day: High Five Books Hosts Wimpy & Wumpy: A Spooktacular Evening
• Movies: Narnia: The Magician's Nephew
• SIBA's Executive Director Barrett Stepping Down 
• Awards: Cundill History Finalists
• Longtime Indie Press Goes West 
• 7 Things to Never Do in a Bookstore, According to Booksellers
• Media Heat: Rana Foroohar on Fresh Air
• B&N Opening Bookstore in Midtown Miami, Fla.,Today
• 'Actual Things Customers Have Said That Leave Us Dead'
• Obituary Note: Sidney Offit
• Notes from Frankfurt: AI, Travel Publishing, Fixed Prices
• Reading with... Chital Mehta
• Starred Children's Review: The Year I Stopped Drawing
• Rolling Rabbit Books in Byron Center, Mich., Expands
• Booksellers on the Joys and Challenges of Multilingual Bookselling
• Multilingual Publisher and Distributor Resources
• TV: Artemis Fowl
• Orchard & Ink Bookstore Debuts in Virginia Beach, Va.
• Heartland Fall Forum Wraps Up
• PEN International Writer of Courage: Ali Abu Yasin
• Image of the Day: Boulder Bookstore Celebrates Kate DiCamillo
• Media Heat: Yiyun Li on Fresh Air
• Bookseller Moment: Forever Books
• IPG Adds Five Publishers
• Reading Group Choices' Most Popular September Books
• The Poetry Shelf: Anne Carson, Wendell Berry
• Review: Cold Fusion
• Frankfurt Book Fair 2026: Joachim Kaufmann on the Future of the Fair
• Obituary Note: Malcolm Edwards 
• Haints and Hollers Horror Bookstore & Tea Bar Coming to Asheville, N.C., by Halloween
• Canadian Booksellers Celebrate Anne Carson's Nobel in Literature Win
• Heartland Fall Forum: Pictures at an Exhibition
• Short Films from the Booker Prize Shortlist
• Cool Idea: The Reading Party
• Banned Books Week Display: The Purple Couch Bookshop
• Cultura Books Debuts in Collingswood, N.J.
• Shelf Awareness Delivers Indie Pre-Order E-Blast
• Awards: Goldsmiths Shortlist
• Frankfurt Book Fair 2026: The Climate Crisis We Stopped Talking About
• Indigenous Peoples Day/Columbus Day
• Chalkboard: Henry's Books 
• TV: The Titanic Story of Evelyn
• Image of the Day: Seven Curious Ants at Books on the Square
• Bookshop.org: Milestones Met, More Milestones Set
• B&N Opens Stores in Tucson, Ariz., and San Marcos, Calif.,
• Reading with... Avia Tadmor
• Review: Party with Cassowary
• Forrest and Fawn Bookstore Grows in Riverton, Wyo.
• Heartland Fall Forum Kicks Off in Minneapolis
• Attainment: New Titles Out Next Week
• This Weekend on Book TV: Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor on End Times Fascism
• IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites
• MPIBA FallCon Wraps Up in Denver
• Nobel Prize in Literature Awarded to Anne Carson
• Awards: T.S. Eliot Shortlist 
• Obituary Note: Hilary McPhee
• Media Heat: Jean Chatzky on Today
• Bookseller Cat: Coal at From My Shelf Books & Gifts
• Robert Gray: Shakespeare and Company, Living 'Inside a Book' for 75 Years
• Bmore Romantic Opens in Baltimore, Md.
• 'Banned & Challenged' Section: Sulfur Books
• Image of the Day: The King's English Presents Ariel Lawhon
• Review: On Thin Ice: Stories
• The Bookmark to Host Grand Opening in Greer, S.C.
• Frankfurt Book Fair 2026: 'On the Knife Edge of History'
• TV: The Bride's Chamber
• Jasmine Baker Wins Carla Gray Memorial Scholarship
• Chalkboard: Hedgehog Books
• Valsoft Corp. Acquires the Firebrand Group 
• National Book Awards Finalists
• Bookseller Anti-Amazon Moment... with a View!
• Personnel Changes at Page One Media
• Awards: Financial Times, Standard Chartered Business Book Shortlist
• Media Heat: Patti Smith on Tonight
• Obituary Note: Dr. Irene Hasenberg Butter
• Earworm (Literally) of the Day: 'Send This to Someone Who Needs to Break up with Amaz*n'
• Image of the Day: Season of The Witch
• Reading with... Robbie Couch
• Children's Review: Help! I'm Being Eaten by a Bear!
• Obituary Note: Jeffrey Archer
• Movies: Clarissa
• Sarah Rhu of Scuppernong Books Wins Shelf Awareness Winter Institute Scholarship
• Chalkboard: Novel Bay Booksellers
• Personnel Changes at the future of agency
• MPIBA's FallCon Kicks Off in Denver
• American Library Association Releases 150 Most Challenged Books List
• Little Free Library Calls Upon Readers to Share Banned Books 
• Media Heat: Malcolm Gladwell on Jimmy Kimmel Live
• Image of the Day: Something Followed Us Home at Exile in Bookville
• Top Book Club Picks in September
• Book Trailer of the Day: Little Bee and the Bloom
• Starred Review: Fetal Position
• The Island Bookstore, Mackinac Island, Mich., Combining Locations
• Indie Bookstores: 'Textured and Handmade'
• Media Heat: Michael Douglas on Fresh Air, GMA, the View
• TV: Twist
• Obituary Note: Linda Asher
• B Is for Bookshop Raptor: 'Merlin' at Boulder Bookstore
• Author, Author!: Robert Sindelar to Star in His Own Play
• Image of the Day: Trailblazing Women
• Awards: Crook's Corner Shortlist
• Christine Edwards Joins Rizzoli as Chief Commercial Officer
• Media Source Launches Open Shelf Reviews
• Review: Table Hopping: The Secret History of London Restaurants, from Langan's Brasserie to the Wolseley
• The Guilty Librarian Opens in Flomaton, Ala.
• For Sale: Plot Twist Books, South Charleston, W.Va.
• Bookshop Moment: Well Worn Books
• The Blushing Bookmark Arrives in Massapequa Park, N.Y.
• W.W. Norton Launching New Imprint, Norton Waverly
• Heated Rivalry Producers Launch a Real Version of the Books' Irina Foundation
• TV: Thornbird
• Bookstore Dog: Rooney at Storyline Bookshop
• Spooky Window Display: The Mysterious Bookshop
• Lavender Cafe & Bookstore Launches in New Orleans, La.
• International Update: Argentina's 'Bookselling Emergency'; An Post Bookshop of the Year Longlist 
• Personnel Changes at HarperCollins; Viking Penguin
• Image of the Day: Jodi Picoult at the Bookmarks Festival
• Awards: Cercador Translation Finalists
• Mission Bookworm Coming to Mission, Kan., Next Month
• The Wild Detectives, Dallas, Tex., Opens Second Location
• Chalkboard: Cottage Book Shop
• B&N: Bookstores Open in Woodmere, Ohio; Richmond, Tex.; Chapel Hill, N.C.; Mobile, Ala.
• Review: To Grieve Is to Carry Another Time: A Memoir
• Reading with... Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr. and Shane Hawk
• Binc Names Susan Kamil Emerging Writers Prize Winners
• Attainment: New Titles Out Next Week
• Bookseller Moment: Silver Dawn Books
• 'When the Bookstore Playlist Hits and You Don't Realize There's a Customer'
• James Patterson's Holiday Bookstore Bonus Program Returns, Expands
• Obituary Note: Charles Trueheart 
• This Weekend on Book TV: Annie Jacobsen
• New Owners Reopen Big Red Books, Nyack, N.Y.
• IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites
• Robert Gray: BISG, BookNet Canada Report on 'AI Use Across the North American Book Industry'
• Awards: Center for Fiction First Novel Shortlist
• Media Heat: Ayad Akhtar on Here & Now
• Review: Weird Era: How Pitchfork Changed Music Forever: A Memoir
• Endless Chapters Bookshop & Cafe Coming to Jefferson, Wis.
• Image of the Day: The Book Stall's Launch for Catherine Grace Katz
• Reverie Room Opens in St. Petersburg, Fla.
• PNBA Fall Tradeshow Wraps Up with a Day of Education
• TV: Carême
• Louise Erdrich Wins Gish Prize
• Sales Floor Display: 'National Day for Truth & Reconciliation' 
• Threshing Day Midnight Release Party at Deadtime Stories
• Reese's October Book Club Pick: Sophie, Standing There
• Broom Book & Candle Opening This Fall in Denver, Colo.
• Molly Guptill Manning & John Mutter on Telling the Stories of Unsung Heroes
• Andrea Fleck-Nisbet Named President, Quarto Group U.S.
• Executive Changes at Hachette Book Group 
• Scholastic to Acquire Cottage Door Press
• Personnel Changes at Sourcebooks
• Media Heat: Madeline Miller on Here & Now
• Image of the Day: The Liberation of Jane Carter
• Reading with... Rachel Pastan
• Starred YA Review: What Rough Beast
• Globe Pequot Publishing Group Buys C&T Publishing
• Voice of the Heartland Award Goes to David Underwood
• TV: Icebreaker
• Awards: Mo Siewcharran Winner
• U.S. Customer in Canada Inspires Cross-Border Bookstore Connection
• 3 of Cups Bookstore & Commons Coming to Olathe, Kan.
• Sahaptin Stories in Portland, Ore., Hosts Grand Opening for Physical Storefront
• Cool Idea: A Very Special Book Anniversary Event at Reasonable Books, Lafayette, Calif.
• Obituary Note: Peter May
• Chalkboard: Grit City Books
• Image of the Day: John Green and Angie Thomas
• Media Heat: Mahmoud Khalil on Fresh Air
• PNBA Fall Tradeshow Kicks off in Portland
• Starred Review: Wild Aster
• PNBA Annual Meeting: Growth and Challenges
• TV: Ministry of Time
• Bookshop Moment: As the Page Turns
• Media Heat: Kyle MacLachlan on Fresh Air
• Obituary Note: Rose Friedman
• Off Planet Books and Puzzles Lands in Pleasant Hill, Iowa
• Scholastic First Quarter: Revenues Down 4%; 'Strong Early Indicators' for Fall
• Bridget's Bookshelf Debuts in Council Bluffs, Iowa
• Awards: Australian Fiction Longlist 
• Book Trailer of the Day: Look! A Bear!
• Review: The River at the End of the River: Poems
• Chalkboard: Shared Stories Books
• Image of the Day: Kepler's Hosts Ke Huy Quan
• Top Library Recommended Titles for October
• New Owners for Vroman's and Book Soup
• Grand Opening for Little Fox Bookshop, Southbury, Conn., this Weekend 
• Movies: Fake Skating
• Staff Shoutout: Parnassus Books
• Awards: PEN Heaney Shortlist
• The Novel Narwhal Relocates in Roanoke, Tex.
• Periwinkle Books Opens in Bronxville, N.Y.