News Bulletins For Bookshops

Independent Booksellers Children's Book of the Season

29/06/2017

To celebrate the end of Independent Bookshop Week 2017, we are delighted to announce a brand new initiative - our Indie Booksellers Children’s Book of the Season.

Our Children’s Book of the Season has been created by the BA Children’s Bookselling Group as a way of indie bookshops really getting behind a kids' book every season. With the combined strength of a number of indies, we are sure to see pickup and increased coverage (and sales, we hope!) for the selected title.

IBW BOOK AWARD 2017 WINNERS

23/06/2017

We are delighted to announce the three winners of this year’s Independent Bookshop Week (IBW) Book Award, with wins for both Faber & Faber and Macmillan Children’s Books. This year’s winners are:

Social Media Plans

21/06/2017

The main purpose of today’s bulletin though is to let you know about our social media plans for IBW this year. You can find all the social media banners on the Bookshop Resources page of the site.

Where do you like to read?
Our main social media focus this year is to encourage book lovers to share their favourite reading place - whether it be their summer holiday spots, a lunchtime escape to the park or a secret reading place. Authors, publishers and book lovers everywhere will be sharing where they like to read on Twitter and Instagram –so why not ask your customers to share their favourite reading place between 24^th June and 1^st July under #myreadingplace and they could win the IBW Book Award shortlists and a £50 National Book Token so spend in your shop. Talking of reading places – this seems the perfect opportunity to create *the* perfect reading place in your shop (if it doesn’t already exist of course) for your customers – remember to share your photos with us! This initiative kicks off on Saturday 24^th June and throughout the week – please do download the social media banners from our website and join the conversation during the week.

Laura Barnet & Kathryn Williams Album of the Book 'Greatest Hits'

21/06/2017

We have a late offer in from One Little Indian Records, who are releasing Kathryn William’s companion album to the new Laura Barnett novel Greatest Hits (W&N, IBSN 978-1474600200).
The album, Songs From The Novel Greatest Hits is available exclusively at a discount price to IBW stores for IBW week only.

Bounce Marketing Offers

13/06/2017

We are delighted to bring you offers galore from Bounce Marketing to celebrate IBW and Bounce’s 15^th Birthday.

Guide to the Best Children's Books in the Guardian

12/06/2017

We are delighted to share with you the book list for the titles which are going to be reviewed in the Guide to the Best Children's Books in the Guardian supplement on Saturday 24th June. The supplement is full of book reviews by members of the BA's Children's Bookselling Group and is a wonderful promotion of children's books during IBW.

Famous Five 75th Anniversary POS

05/06/2017

This year marks the 75^th anniversary of one of Enid Blyton’s best-loved adventure series, The Famous Five. Hodder Children’s Books are celebrating the release of their new editions, with wonderful cover illustrations by Laura Ellen Anderson, by offering POS display packs for the first 20 IBW bookshops to victoria.rontaler@hachettechildrens.co.uk

Harry Potter Trivia Tournament

01/06/2017

Celebrate 20 years of Harry Potter magic this summer with a very special book quiz. Bloomsbury are looking for 20 bookshops across the UK to hold Harry Potter book quizzes between Saturday 24^th June and Sunday 27^th August to celebrate the 20^th anniversary of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Participating bookshops will be given an exclusive quiz kit as well as Harry Potter prizes for their winning teams. Each winning team will then be invited to London to take part in a second quiz that will decide the ultimate winner. Quizzes can be held in the bookshop or at a local venue and family teams are encouraged. See below for details on the tournament and interested bookshops should register (by Monday 12^th June) by emailing ian.lamb@bloomsbury.com

Quarto Window Display Plus PRH POS

22/05/2017

The Tiger in the Garden's Lizzy Stewart is offering two window paintings over IBW. Her illustration is breathtaking and she's a prize winner, and very popular.

For your chance, email katherine.josselyn@quarto.com by 31st May. Two bookshops will be chosen at random.

Philip Pullman Exclusive IBW Essay

19/05/2017

We are beyond thrilled to announce an exclusive IBW essay by Philip Pullman for this year’s campaign. Joining previous IBW essays by Robert Macfarlane, Julian Barnes, Anne Patchett and Mark Forsyth, Imaginary Friends is an essay written in answer to Richard Dawkins’s assertion that fairy tales may have a pernicious effect on children, with reference to the author’s own experience of reading and imagining.

Celebrate IBW with Maisy and Friends!

17/05/2017

Join Maisy on her adventure in the bookshop in our exclusive promotion for IBW. We have everything you need for the perfect party with a window display kit and storytime pack – guaranteed to help little ones enjoy reading and sharing books!

Macmillan Children's Offers

17/05/2017

We're delighted to bring you a smorgasbord of offers from Macmillan Children's Books - read on to find out more…or check out the PDF document

Harry Potter Tote Bags, Events, Packs

11/05/2017

‘20 Years of Harry Potter’ tote bags for IBW

It’s with much excitement that we announce a unique, limited edition IBW 2017 Tote Bag, featuring the Bloomsbury 20^th Anniversary Hogwarts house shields, which will be produced by Bloomsbury and sent out in strictly limited amounts to IBW shops to help celebrate IBW this year, our 11^th.

Macmillan Offers & Authors

11/05/2017

We are thrilled to bring you some great offers from Publisher of the Year Pan Macmillan, including a great Picador BOGOHP, a poetry BOGOHP and some great author availability. Check out the PDF information sheet too, on the IBW site https://indiebookshopweek.org.uk/TradeLogin/Bookshop-Bulletins or click HERE.

There's a Monster in This Book(shop!)

10/05/2017

Oh, hello there, bookselling champs! Fancy getting your fangs on some in-store materials to celebrate Tom Fletcher’s upcoming picture book, There’s a Monster in Your Book?

We’ve got a simply monstrous mountain of display materials especially for you lovely indies, all featuring the world’s friendliest little Monster, who’ll be springing onto shelves on 29th June (right in the middle of Independent Bookshops Week!).

Find Wally Hunt

09/05/2017

To celebrate 30 years of Where’s Wally?, Walker Books are proud to announce that FIND WALLY is back by popular demand for a sixth year to celebrate IBW. Spread the “Get Local” message by livening up your town with a community-wide month long Wally hunt which everyone – kids, parents, and Wally-lovers of all ages – is invited to join.

Birlinn 25th Anniversary Offer

09/05/2017

Birlinn Ltd, one of Scotland’s leading independent publishers, is celebrating its 25^th anniversary this summer. So, to show appreciation for the support from independent booksellers over the last quarter century, Birlinn are offering a special promotion for IBW: they’re offering 25 books for 25 years at a special trade discount – contact Vikki Reilly for specifics on discount -vikkir@birlinn.co.uk

Faber Poetry Diary 2018 Early Exclusive

02/05/2017

We’re delighted to bring you early exclusive access to the gorgeous Faber Poetry Diary 2018 - 9780571334360 - £12.99

The diary is available exclusively to independent bookshops from mid June in time for IBW and released to the rest of the trade at the end of August (pub date 7th September).

Please order from Sam Brown - samb@faber.co.uk

IBW Book Award Shortlists Announced

28/04/2017

We are delighted to announce the shortlist for the IBW Book Award. Judged by a panel of authors, booksellers and journalists, the three winners - in Adult, Children’s and Picture Book categories - will be announced on Friday 23^rd June, the day before the start of this year’s IBW. To support the in-store promotion of the shortlist both during IBW and beyond, all participating IBW booksellers will receive high quality POS materials featuring all 32 shortlisted titles, with the award at the heart of IBW’s trade and consumer promotional activities.

Hachette Staff Working in Bookshops

27/04/2017

To help celebrate the long-standing special relationship between Independent Bookshop Week and Hachette, we are thrilled that Hachette staff are fully embracing our Shopfloor Publishers Project, and planning to send out lots of their staff to indie bookshops during IBW. The plan is to get the publishers to spend time working in the bookshop alongside our fabulous booksellers, to get a sense of life on the shopfloor, seeing how books sell, how customers interact and how hand-selling is done!

Art of Reading by Damon Young

24/04/2017

We’re delighted to be powering on with IBW plans, and this time have a very special offer from Scribe Publishing – a new publisher to IBW, but extremely keen to connect with indies, and who have a very appropriate title for us.

The Art of Reading - Damon Young - 9781911344186 - £9.99

Carolina Rabei Illustrated Windows

24/04/2017

We are thrilled that Faber illustrator, Carolina Rabei, is offering two lucky booksellers the chance to have their windows designed by her!

Ian Rankin Box Sets

23/04/2017

We are delighted to bring you another IBW offer, this time a very special offer for Ian Rankin fans!

Orion have created a specially designed Anniversary Box Set collector's edition of KNOTS AND CROSSES, BLACK AND BLUE and EXIT MUSIC - signed by Ian Rankin and with exclusive extra material only available in this set. The signed copies and special material are exclusive to indie bookshops for IBW

Guide to the Best Children's Books in the Guardian

21/04/2017

Our first news this year is that we are delighted to be working with the PA Children’s Book Group on producing another version of the very successful Guide to the Best Children’s Books, which appears in the Guardian newspaper on 24^th June, the first day of IBW.

Macmillan Middle Grade Mashup

21/04/2017

We are delighted to bring you our first IBW offer, from Macmillan, who are putting together a fabulous Middle Grade Mashup Tour, to celebrate IBW, and are looking for 10 great independent bookshops to host events.