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Tuesday, 01 November 2011 19:33

Novera Payment Solutions

SIBA has teamed up with Novera Payment Solutions, LLC (Novera) as our new provider for credit and debit card payment services. Novera represents WorldPay, one of Americas largest transaction providers. SIBA has selected Novera to guide members through the complicated world of payment processing . Novera delivers a unique combination of value, integrity and price transparency to SIBA members that is unparalleled throughout the payment processing industry. Their services can result in a significant reduction in your current payment processing fees via their innovative and transparent “Flat Fee Pricing”. Novera can also show members how to begin accepting credit and debit card payments directly from their smart phone or computer and has innovative tools to help grow your business through their gift and loyalty card programs. We hope you will welcome Novera with enthusiasm as a trusted partner of our association. For more information on Novera Payment Solutions and how they can help your business, visit them at www.noverapaymentsolutions.com/siba .



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Last Updated on Tuesday, 01 November 2011 19:54
 
Announcing the Spring 2012 Okra Picks PDF print email
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Wednesday, 21 December 2011 18:49

Okra PicksDecember 21, 2011 (Columbia, SC)—Tis the season to be merry, but here in the land of the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance it's also the season for a new harvest of Okra Picks. Southern Indie Booksellers have a selected the 2012 Spring Okra Picks—great southern books, fresh off the vine. It’s a bumper crop, a baker's dozen different titles representing a wide range of tastes, all the books selected have the following things in common: 1) They are Southern in nature. 2) They are 2012 spring releases (December 2011 through March 2012) and 3) There is a SIBA member Bookstore who is really excited about the book. So if you wanted to know what books you'd be reading over the next few months, check the list below! Southern booksellers love their Southern authors—we grow good books!

Spring 2012 Okra Picks

The Confession
by Charles Todd
William Morrow, January 2012

The Evening Hour
by Carter Sickels
Bloomsbury, January 2012

A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty by Joshilyn Jackson
Grand Central Publishing, January 2012

The Healing
by Jonathan Odell
Random House, February 2012

The Rebel Wife
by Taylor M. Polities
Simon and Schuster, February 2012

The Same Sun Here
by Silas House and Neela Vaswani
Candlewick, February 2012

The Search Committee
by Tim Owens
Tyndale House, February 2012

What Happened to Hannah
by Mary Kay McComas
William Morrow, February 2012

Glow
by Jessica Maria Tuccelli
Viking, March 2012

The Hills Remember
by James Still
University Press of Kentucky, March 2012

The Iguana Tree
by Michel Stone
Hub City Press, March 2012

The Kentucky Derby
by James C. Nicholson
University Press of Kentucky, March 2012

Render Unto the Valley
by Rose Senehi
KIM Publishing/John Blair. March 2012

For more information visit Authorsroundthesouth.com/okra



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Last Updated on Wednesday, 21 December 2011 22:34
 
Love Your Okra and Win a Trip to #siba12! PDF print email
News - SIBA News
Thursday, 20 October 2011 14:37

Okra Picks

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but here at SIBA we think it's worth $500.00.  We want you to take pictures of your in store fall okra picks displays and post them on Facebook (tag us when you do), put it on your website, send it out via twitter, or simply email the picture to wanda@sibaweb.com.

Do that and let us know, and you will be entered to win an all-expenses-paid trip to the #siba12 Trade Show in Naples, Florida. That's at least a $500 value! But even more valuable is your support for this season's Okra Pick titles--great southern books, fresh off the vine!

SIBA has provided an Okra Picks Poster: icon Okra Picks Fall 2011 Poster 11x17

and special printed cards to help stores with their display signage. First chapters of some books are also available for download here.

A list of the current season of Okra Picks is here

Deadline is January 1, 2012, and you must be a 2012 SIBA Bookstore member in good standing to win.



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Last Updated on Thursday, 20 October 2011 15:42
 
Shout Out to Members Making SIBA News PDF print email
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Thursday, 17 November 2011 21:39

Let us know and we’ll let the world know!

SIBA makes a concerted effort to spread the word about our member stores. So if you tell us, we'll tell everybody. If you are on facebook or twitter, make sure you friend and follow us. If you do an email newsletter, make sure we get it:

Tag us when you post on Facebook or Twitter – At Twitter use @ReaderMtWriter and at Facebook, use @Authors Round the South; and we will see it, we will share it, we will spread the word and highlight you here in ongoing SIBA Inks.  Let us know when you put the Holiday Catalog on your IndieCommerce site or when you promote the Okra Picks on your website, or when you post a photo of your Okra Picks card display for a chance to win an all-expense paid trip to #SIBA12.  We can’t enter you if we don’t know you have done it.  So – start spreading the news….

A big thanks to the following stores:

Myra Meade of Hall Book Exchange posted a picture of their Okra Picks card display on Facebook

Cavalier House Books is featuring this season’s Okra Picks on their home page: http://www.cavalierhousebooks.com/

Island Books posted the holiday catalog to their home page: http://www.islandbooksobx.com/

Thanks to these stores for reporting to the Southern Indie Bestseller List via ABA, with North Carolina stores leading the charge:



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SIBA Announces Circle of Sites Upgrade PDF print email
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Saturday, 20 August 2011 22:28

Circle of Sites, the innovative program from the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) that allows publishers to promote their books simultaneously on seventy-five indie bookstore websites across the south, has been upgraded to promote book sales that directly benefit participating stores. Beginning August 18, the banners will be programmed to link directly to the hosting store's own shopping cart, or to a specific product page on the store's website.

"We think this is an original approach to online marketing," said SIBA Executive Director Wanda Jewell. Up until now SIBA's Circle of Sites program, which sells ad space to publishers on its member bookstore websites, did not allow posted banners to be hyperlinked at all--citing the need to keep their member stores' customers on the stores' own websites. "We are trying to drive traffic to our stores, not drive it away," said Jewell. 

Despite the restrictions, the program has proved popular with both publishers, who like that it reaches a direct consumer market and bookstores, who like that their membership dues are waived if they host the banner.   Ad space is sold by the week, and so far every week of 2011 to date has been reserved.  Now that banners will automatically be linked to store shopping carts and product pages, Jewell thinks the program's popularity will increase, encouraging website traffic and sales for participating stores.

"It is an unusual approach to banner ad marketing," said Nicki Leone, who acts as SIBA's website administrator. "It's one thing to have the same banner appear on many different websites. But it's quite another to fix it so that where you go when you click on it depends on where you are when you started. I don't know if anyone has ever even tried it before." SIBA solved the problem by creating a system that analyzes a store's website and ecommerce organization, and creates a custom link to a store's shopping cart (or other page) on the fly depending on the information it finds. "So far we think we have been able to account for all the most popular ecommerce systems used by SIBA stores," Leone said.

There are currently seventy-five stores participating in the Circle of Sites program, representing each of the eleven southern states in SIBA territory. "These stores are the literary hubs of their communities," said Jewell. "Marketing on their websites is like putting a sign on the front window--you are reaching directly into a community of  southern readers.

SIBA is currently taking reservations for Circle of Sites spots for 2012. Publishers who make their reservations now will be able to lock in 2011 prices.



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Last Updated on Tuesday, 23 August 2011 22:22
 
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