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- Media Heat: Rhae Lynn Barnes on Fresh Air
- Movies: The Stranger
- 'I Always Get Such a Surge of Joy When I See My Books Stocked at Indies'
- B&N Opening in Melbourne, Fla., on Wednesday
- Obituary Note: António Lobo Antunes
- Review: The Radiant Dark
- Bill Krause to Retire from Llewellyn Worldwide
- Outstanding International Children's Books Webinar Set for Next Monday
- Book Trailer of the Day: The End of My Life Is Killing Me
- Awards: Anisfield-Wolf Finalists; Athenaeum of Philadelphia Shortlist
- Personnel Changes at Sourcebooks; Princeton University Press
- Image of the Day: Lauren Groff at Warwick's
- Alice's Haunted Little Bookshop, Mystic, Conn., Adding Store in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
- Libro.fm Bestsellers in February
- Bookseller Cat: Buster at Split Rock Books
- Two Rivers to Sell and Distribute Guinness World Records
- Happy 20th Birthday, Stone Soup Books!
- Personnel Changes at Abrams; Grand Central and Forever
- TV: Lovejoy
- Judging by the Cover, Fresno, Calif., Launches Crowdfunding Campaign
- International Update: SLF Boycott Bumps Amazon from Paris Book Festival; BA Group's Initiative
- Awards: Women's Prize for Fiction Longlist
- Image of the Day: Honor Flight at Old Town Books
- Media Heat: Michaeleen Doucleff on CBS Mornings
- Àbákẹ́ Books & Café Opens in Jersey City, N.J.
- GMA, Reese's Book Club Picks
- Bookseller or Librarian & Young Reader: 'Such an Amazing Connection'
- B&N Closing Bookstore in San Bruno, Calif.
- Reading with... Laura Taylor Namey
- Review: Boomtown: The True Story of the Wickedest Town in Texas
- The Books Cellar Coming to Jacksonville, Fla., This Spring
- Media Heat: Annie Leibovitz on CBS Mornings
- Wi2026: Author Events and Censorship
- Personnel Changes at Chelsea Green
- Steerforth Press Now Imprint of Pushkin Press US
- Obituary Note: Rose Lesniak
- Memorial Scholarship Fund Launched to Honor Bookseller Gee Gee Rosell
- Movies: Fake Skating
- Image of the Day: Haley Pham at the Strand
- Top Book Club Picks in February
- Bookstore Winter Weather Update: Book Shop of Beverly Farms
- Attainment: New Titles Out Next Week
- Robert Gray: AI & Bookselling Q&A--'I Don't Know the Title, But It Has a Red Cover'
- IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites
- Awards: Ockham NZ Book, NZ Booklovers Shortlists
- Ink & Page Book Boutique, Overland Park, Kan., to Close
- Review: Small Town Girls: A Writer's Memoir
- Bookstore Proposal: Cupboard Maker Books
- Marc DeBevoise Named President of OverDrive
- Bookish Winter Scene: Broadside Bookshop
- Obituary Note: Coleman Barks
- Wi2026: Market Trends, Retail Insights, and Growth Strategies
- Awards: Audie, AAP PROSE Winners
- Bookmiser in Marietta, Ga., Reopens After Fire Damage
- Steph Opitz to Head Consortium
- Media Heat: Cazzie David on the Drew Barrymore Show
- Chalkboard: Island Books
- Personnel Changes at Macmillan; Random House; Egypt Street PR & Literary
- TV: Song of the Samurai
- Reading with... Juliet Izon
- Children's Review: Weird, Wild, and Rare
- Image of the Day: Dual Launch at Odyssey Bookshop
- Wi2026: Bookstores in the Time of Fascism
- Awards: PEN/Faulkner Fiction Finalists
- Top-Selling Self-Published Titles
- Michelle Montague Joins Behrman House as Head of Sales & Marketing
- Cool Idea: Paper Plane Weekends
- Shelf Awareness Presents! Calling Booksellers and Publishers
- Obituary Note: Dan Simmons
- Binc Names Denver Publishing Institute Scholarship Winner
- Book Trailer of the Day: A-MAZE-ING Airport Adventure
- Personnel Changes at Hachette; Sourcebooks
- Media Heat: Annie Leibovitz on CBS Mornings
- Review: Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King
- Love Y'All Book Fest: 'Romance Can Bring Us Back to a Hopeful Place'
- Media Heat: Gov. Gavin Newsom on Jimmy Kimmel Live
- Bookstore Rooftop Wedding: Buffalo Books & Coffee
- Bookseller Cat: Copper at Analog Books
- Physical Storefront for Magnolia & Main Books, Ridgeway, Va., to Continue
- Image of the Day: N. West Moss Launch at Watchung Booksellers
- The 21st Annual Winter Institute: It's a Wrap
- Former Tattered Cover CEO Spearman Opens Denver Book Society
- Awards: Republic of Consciousness, U.S. & Canada Shortlist; E.U. Literature Shortlist
- Book Trailer of the Day: Eggs: All Day, Every Way
- Personnel Changes at Macmillan
- Starred Review: Screen People: How We Entertained Ourselves into a State of Emergency
- B&N: New Bookstores Opening This Week in Colorado Springs, Chicago
- My Secret Shelves Opens in Pineville, La.
- BISG Webinar on Bookselling and the Supply Chain This Tuesday
- Movies: Losing Earth
- Edelweiss Launches Discovery Access for Indie & Emerging Publishers
- Back Again Book Shop, Myrtle Beach, S.C., Opens Second Store, in Surfside Beach
- Storefront Window Art: 'Thinking Spring'
- Awards: Dublin Literary Longlist
- Wi2026: 'Shifts in the Tide'
- Wi2026: Pictures from Pittsburgh
- Bookseller Moment: Fitz Books & Waffles
- Obituary Note: Edward Hoagland
- Tell Me a Story: Fantastic Children's Books from the Library of Congress Released
- Bookstore Cat: Orleans at Left Bank Books
- Reading with... B.K. Borison
- Review: How It Feels to Be Alive: Encounters with Art and Our Selves
- Obituary Note: Ann Godoff
- Awards: Victorian Prize for Literature
- Wi2026: 'A Celebration of Fiction'
- More from #Wi2026: 'Booksellers Are Cool People, if I Do Say So Myself'
- Green Apple Books Featured in New 'Visa & Main' Ad
- Oprah's Book Club Pick: Kin
- Attainment: New Titles Out Next Week
- Image of the Day: Page 158 Hosts Kate Quinn
- Robert Gray: Mass Market Paperbacks 'Once Democratized Reading for the Working Class'
- This Weekend on Book TV: Heather Ann Thompson on Fear and Fury
- Media Heat: Taylor Cassidy on Jennifer Hudson Show
- International Update: U.K. Kids' Reading Survey; Romania 2028 Frankfurt Book Fair Guest of Honor
- IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites
- Review: Mrs. Shim Is a Killer
- The Book Club Salida Opening Physical Storefront in Salida, Colo.
- 'Moments of Grace': A Bookselling Parable
- Politics & Prose's Tribute to the Washington Post's Book World
- NAB2 Unveils State of the Black Bookstore Report, National Black-Owned Bookstore Directory
- Bookshop Marriage Proposal: The Cranford Bookstore
- Movies: The Nightingale
- Snowstorm Update: 'Ski Beacon Hill'
- #Wi2026: 'A Booksellers Dream'
- Wi2026: Reading Is Power
- Awards: International Booker Prize Longlist; PROSE Finalists
- Obituary Note: Marcella Smith
- Media Heat: Lisa Rinna on the View, Tamron Hall
- Chalkboard: Anthology for Books
- Children's Review: The House
- Reading with... Gregg Hurwitz
- #Wi2026 Winter Storm Update: Inkwood Books
- Movies: Lincoln in the Bardo
- #Wi2026: 'What is Winter Institute & Why Is It Important?'
- #Wi2026 Video: N.Y. Bookseller's 'First Bookstore Stop in Pittsburgh'
- Awards: Aurealis Winners
- Obituary Note: Susan Sheehan
- Ingram Launching Covered, a Website for Digital Publishers Catalogues & DRCs
- B&N Debuts New Nook Reading Tablet
- Top-Selling Self-Published Titles
- Media Heat: Michael Lynton, Joshua L. Steiner on Good Morning America
- Shelf Awareness Recognizes Excellence in Marketing
- Review: Midnight, at the War
- Book Trailer of the Day: Before We Wake
- Literarity Book Shop, El Paso, Tex., to Close
- Sugar and Spice Books Arrives in Boulder, Colo.
- The 21st Annual Winter Institute!
- Bookseller Moment: Newtonville Books
- Media Heat: Norah O'Donnell on CBS Mornings
- TV: What the Dead Know
- Awards: Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Shortlist
- Obituary Note: Mani Shankar Mukherjee (Sankar)
- Ownership Change at Next Page Books & Nosh, Frisco, Colo.
- Road Trip: '20 Incredible Black-Owned Bookstores in the Midwest'
- Books Across Borders Announces 2026 Spring Fellows; Fall/Spring Applications Open
- Starred Review: Leave Your Mess at Home
- Strand Bookstore Opens Cafe Fred in Flagship Store
- Personnel Changes at Zando
- Book Trailer of the Day: Treasure Thieves on the High Seas
- Ever After Booksellers Opens in Greenville, N.C.
- Movies: What Happens at Night
- Awards: The Unwin Nonfiction Shortlist
- On Stage: First Video Look at The Hunger Games
- Booksellers as Authors at Books Are Magic
- Cool Idea: 'The As the Page Turns Social Club'
- Obituary Note: Roland Huntford
- Hachette Comparable Sales Up 3% in 2025; Total Sales Up 11%
- Eureka Books in Calif. to Add Second Store, Called Omnibus
- Matt Friberg Named Parallax Press Publisher
- Reading with... Grace Newman
- Bogan Books Reopens in Fort Kent, Maine
- Bookstore Moment: Wild Geese Bookshop
- Review: Go Gentle
- Image of the Day: Book Passage Launches George Saunders's Vigil
- Yer Mom's Book & Wine Coming to Louisville, Ky.
- Attainment: New Titles Out Next Week
- Obituary Note: Michael Silverblatt
- Ivy & Ink Bookstore Debuts in Topeka, Kan.
- Stop & Grow Opens in Coronado, Calif.
- Robert Gray: Nibbies Indie Bookshop of the Year Finalists--'All Bookselling Is Local'
- This Weekend on Book TV: The Frederick Douglass Book Prize
- Awards: PEN/Hemingway for Debut Novel Finalists
- Media Heat: Michael Pollan on Fresh Air
- Personnel Changes at Lakeside Book Co.; Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
- Books Delivery Day: Janke Book Store.
- Plenty Downtown Bookshop, Cookeville, Tenn., Named 'Small Business of the Year'
- IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites
- Starred Review: Names and Faces: A Graphic Memoir
- This Week's Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers
- Bards Alley Bookshop, Vienna, Va., to Relocate
- The Paper Crane Bookstore, Two Rivers, Wis., Reopening as Uncorked Book Lounge
- Page 158 Books' Dave Lucey Joins Edelweiss
- Shelf Awareness Delivers Kids & YA Pre-Order E-Blast
- Penguin Random House Publisher Services to Sell and Distribute Drawn & Quarterly
- Movies: Custom of the Country
- Pan Macmillan Int'l Director Jonathan Atkins to Retire
- Obituary Note: John Peel
- Artemis Books & Goods, Traverse City, Mich., to Open in Permanent Home
- International Update: Australia's BookPeople Reclaims Name; LBF Lifetime Achievement Award Winner
- Swoon Books & Wine Opens in Oakwood, Ohio
- Awards: Robert A. Heinlein Winner
- Media Heat: Michael Pollan on Colbert's Late Show
- The Poetry Shelf: Women's History Month Suggestions
- Reading with... D.S. Waldman
- Children's Review: Theft of the Ruby Lotus
- Image of the Day: Kim Daneielson Launch at Tattered Cover Aspen Grove
- Bookseller Moment: Monarch Books
- Ashland: A Love Story
- Movies: One Hundred and Fifty-Two Days
- Event of the Day: Politics & Prose's 'Tribute to Book World'
- Media Heat: Loubna Mrie on Fresh Air
- 2 Valentine's Day Weddings at 2 Dandelions Bookshop
- Top-Selling Self-Published Titles
- Awards: Chytomo Winners
- Obituary Note: Cees Nooteboom
- Review: Cleo Dang Would Rather Be Dead
- Personnel Changes at Simon & Schuster Distribution
- Partners in Crime Opening Saturday in Chicago, Ill.
- Bookshop Dog: Bella at Rooted Books & Gifts
- B&N Opening New Bookstore in Port St. Lucie, Fla.
- Image of the Day: Gregg Hurwitz and Friends at Diesel, a Bookstore
- Late Night Chapters Opens in Billings, Mont.
- The Next Chapter, A Romance Bookstore, Opens in Clio, Mich.
- Red Wheel/Weiser to Sell, Distribute New World Library; Kevin Votel Joins NWL
- TV: Margo's Got Money Troubles
- Bookseller Winter Olympics: Winnie & Mo's Bookshop
- WanderLust Mobile Bookstore Debuting Tomorrow in Madison, Wis.
- PEN America Names Co-CEOs
- Your Brother's Bookstore, Evansville, Ind., Relocating
- Amanda Angelini Is New Owner of Reading Group Choices
- Awards: Walter Dean Myers Winners
- Obituary Note: Andrew Hewson
- Personnel Changes at Candlewick Press, Holiday House, and Peachtree
- ABA Names Children's Institute Scholarship Winners
- Presidents Day
- Image of the Day: A Taste of Madagascar at Omnivore Books
- Reading with... Janie Chang
- Review: The Left and the Lucky
- The Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza Moves 'Down the Sidewalk' in Albany, N.Y.
- Movies: American Huckster
- Cherry on Top Bookshop Opening Tomorrow in Fort Collins, Colo.
- Attainment: New Titles Out Next Week
- This Weekend on Book TV: Roy Scranton on Impasse: Climate Change and the Limits of Progress
- Awards: Women's Prize for Nonfiction Longlist
- B&N Opening New Stores in Alexandria, Va., and Wallkill, N.Y.
- Robert Gray: 'This Valentine's Day, Skip the Card & Give a Book Instead!'
- Liate Stehlik Named CEO & Publisher, U.S. Trade, at HarperCollins
- Image of the Day: [words] Bookstore Hosts Ezekiel J. Emanuel
- Reading Group Choices' Most Popular January Books
- Personnel Changes at Hachette; future of agency
