Posts Tagged Book Lovers
In Search of a Great Idea?
Posted by Wanda in Good Gifts & Ideas on March 1, 2011
Great Ideas
Every great idea is worth copying. Here are some great store programs that bring in customers and fulfill the need to be a community center. When starting one of these programs, feel free to call the store and get details. Remember, they all started out small and built themselves into what you see here.
Some links to great store programs:
- Kid Camps
- Writing Workshops
- Literary Events
- Adult Classes
- Book Classes
- Combined book sales
- Signed First Editions Club
- Summer Camps
- Author Lunches
- Parties
- Baby Gift Registry
- Cooks with Books
- Pitchapalooza
- Signed Broadsides
- Workshops
Some pdf’s with program information:
- ARC Recycling
- Are You Locally Aligned?
- Author Confirmation Form
- Author/Editor Series
- Author Events: Turning Point or Tipping Point?
- Blockbuster Events
- Blurbs – a nice flyer from Simon & Schuster about how to do them
- Book & Movie Events
- Bookstore Tourism Event
- Coffee With a Bookseller (Warwick’s)
- Cool Ideas Reported by Shelf Awareness
- Consignment Form
- “Daunting Tasks” Store Display
- Embedded in Your Community – by Carla Cohen
- Labor Day Store Display
- Movable Feast Event
- Nonauthor events
- “Outside the Box” Events
- “Pick of the List” Event
- Quiz Bowl for Book Lovers
- Penguin’s Community Connections: Ideas to promote your bookstore
- The Bookworm in Edwards, Colorado has created a great piece promoting their store to publishers
- Traveling Book Club Trips
Reader is Queen!
Posted by Wanda in Get in Bed Project, GiB Book Bloggers on June 22, 2010
Get in Bed with a Book Seller #1
Book Bloggers are Queen Readers
Why do book bloggers blog? Well, I hope they will let me know, but here is what I think: Book bloggers love books, love sharing about what they have read, and want to connect with other book lovers. Most book bloggers are something else as well, either full-time moms, librarians, booksellers, writers, students. But they are all readers and the reader is king in my business. (which led to my title, which led to my changing king to queen, which led to my putting this APB out for male book bloggers – please let me hear from you! )
Those of us in this industry of selling stories on street corners yearn to hear directly from “the reader”. Harry Potter, Nancy Drew, The Passage, The Stand, Stephanie Meyer, Sense & Sensibilities, James Patterson, James and the Giant Peach; oh, if you could only hear the conversations that go ’round and ’round about how to create buzz for a book, what causes a book to intersect with readers, what makes a book “fresh” or “a book club read”. And the book blogger is the new reader, and SIBA wants to find you and nurture you and bring you inside the circle. Partnering with an indie bookstore is your ticket to becoming an industry insider. We welcome you. It’s crazy in here but it is also where the stories are.
FOR WEEK ONE:
1. Watch this video, Independent America: The Two-Lane Search for Mom & Pop (this will help you understand just what bookstores are facing and their value)
2. Find an independent bookstore near you (http://www.authorsroundthesouth.com/STARS/bookstore.php OR http://bookweb.org/aba/members/browse.do) , if you haven’t already (learn who these fine folks are and that they love books just as much as you do)That’s it. Stop. Go post something. More next week.
Read, Remember, Recommend, and more.
Read, Remember, Recommend includes SIBA Book Award Winners for Fiction
Sourcebooks has published this ultimate organizing resource for book lovers. The journal features 60 cross-referenced lists of literary awards and notable picks, including Pulitzer, National Book Awars, 100 Best Books of the Century and the SIBA Book Awards for Fiction since 1999.
Like her recently re-launched website – www.bibliobabe.com – Read, Remember, Recommend by Rachelle Rogers Knight keeps readers coming back to bookstores to purchase recommended books and urges users to spread the joy to other book lovers.
Rachelle Rogers Knight is a passionate reader who has enjoyed books her entire life. She has earned the Bronze Medal for “Independent Publisher of the Year”. Read, Remember, Recommend for Teens: A Reading Journal for Young Adult Book Lovers is also available.
Available from Ingram, 978-0-9825205-0-5, SRP $9.95 - 50% OFF
- How well do you know your Southern lit? We dare you to use a pen on these crossword puzzles, each inspired by one of the winning titles of the SIBA Book Award, honoring ten years of the very best in Southern literature as chosen by the people who would know…Southern Independent Booksellers! A great gift for your book club, for puzzle-lovers, and anyone who loves Southern literature.
