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Christian Science Monitor details indie resurgence; Watermark hosts event in support of sales tax fairness; Beach Books moves to larger space; Busboys & Poets to open another branch; Pittsburgh nonprofit to open bookstore

At Winter Institute 8, Towne Book Center & Cafe’s Kit Little, Boswell Book Company’s Jason Kennedy, and Mysteryscape’s Cheri LeBlond discussed their stores’ best practices for promoting sales of romance, science fiction, and mystery titles with booksellers interested in increasing their genre sales.

Eight e-book promotions were recently added to the IndieCommerce Publisher Promotions page. Categories include detective stories, YA titles, books for tax time, and about the Catholic Church and the papacy.

The Annual Children’s Book Art Silent Auction and Reception at BEA to benefit ABFFE will be hosted by Newbery Medal-winner Jack Gantos and Lauren Myracle, whose books top the list of the country’s most challenged titles. Tickets for the event are on sale now.

The Children’s Book Council and the ABC Children’s Group at ABA are inviting booksellers on a tour of children’s illustrators’ studios to give them a behind-the-scenes peek during BEA into the creative lives of today’s top talent. Registration is free and open to ABC Group at ABA bookstore members only.

Learn more about four new spring promotions created just for independent bookstores, which launched last week under the banner “Celebrate (With) Indies.” Then sign up. Promotional materials are available, including shelf-talkers and author videos for the Celebrate Debut Authors With Indies campaign.

ABA CEO Oren Teicher writes about the Spring Forums and BEA, where booksellers will find some great enhancements and new benefits to the ABA members’ lounge. Teicher also encourages members to take part in a new round of multi-publisher promotions.

Next month, the ABC Children’s Group at ABA will launch “Give Me Summer! Give Me Books!” a national summer reading program for kids that is open to all ABA member bookstores.

Supreme Court rules against Wiley in imported textbook case; Ingram Publisher Services adds three clients;  Sáenz wins PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

With just under five weeks until April 23, World Book Night U.S. is launching a weekly countdown of scheduling, publicity, and resource material updates.