IndieBound

The Indie Next List for Reading Groups for Fall '08/Winter '09 will be arriving in bookstores in the IndieBound movement in the October Red Box mailing; however, the full list, with bookseller quotes, can be previewed online now.

For the eight-week period ending September 23, 2008, and based on sales at independent stores nationwide. 1. Watchmen Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, DC Comics, $19.99, 9780930289232 2.

The American Booksellers Association has announced a new initiative to help booksellers encourage their colleagues to nominate titles for the Indie Next List -- and become eligible to win an ABA gift card in the process.

There will be three opportunities for booksellers to help create Indie Next Lists in October:

1. Away: A Novel by Amy Bloom (Random House Trade Paperbacks, $14, 9780812977790 / 0812977793) "Lillian Leyb arrives in New York's Lower East Side in 1924. What she finds is not for her. Her tenacity and insatiable thirst for life and answers lead her to the Alaskan frontier. Lillian's strength and passion are an inspiration and an invitation to ask yourself, 'What would I have done?'" --Andrea Avantaggio, Maria's Bookshop, Durango, CO

The new "IndieBound Community," which began its successful beta test last month, officially launched today.

For the eight week period ending September 9, 2008, and based on sales at hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide. 1. Three Cups of Tea Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin, Penguin, $15, 9780143038252 2.

Here's a preview of the October Indie Next List now on its way to ABA member stores in the IndieBound movement.

Three new IndieBound-inspired ABA Gift Card designs, which were chosen with the help of booksellers who voted for their favorites this past spring, are now available. The new gift cards, which can be ordered with or without a bookstore imprint, are:

Abrams Image, an imprint of Harry N. Abrams, Inc., is challenging ABA members to create a few brave new words for the publishing and bookselling industries. Abrams has partnered with IndieBound to create a contest exclusively for ABA member booksellers that celebrates the October release of Addictionary: Brave New Words, compiled by Jim Banister.