SIBA

1. Creative Alert
(Advertising/Email Marketing)

... Regional Bookseller Trade Associations are combining efforts to get your promotional materials, ideas, and gift items into the hands of our nearly 3,000 independent bookstore members. Entries cost $50 ...

2. Conquer Coop!
(Business Services/Affiliate Programs)

Special Rate for SIBA members ONLY!   Co-optimize is offering SIBA members a special discounted rate for its new web-based co-op software. Sign-up by October 24 and pay only $99 per mo. for the first ...

3. SIBA Gets High Marks
(News/SIBA News)

... to gain new insights. Pablos is featured in the current issue of Southern Living on the revitalization of their small town. SIBA officials made an announcement at the show that could help add to members' ...

4. Announcing STARS: The Southern Traveling Authors Registration Service
(News/SIBA News)

... I felt like I missed some great opportunities.  It was those kinds of calls and their attendant frustrations that gave SIBA the idea for a new service: SIBA is pleased to give its members a sneak-peak ...

5. 2008 SIBA Book Awards are all atwitter!
(News/SIBA News)

... Remembers Us Deborah Wiles – Finalist, Children’s Aurora County All-Stars Kerry Madden –Finalist, Children’s Louisiana’s Song Alan Gratz – Finalist, Children’s Something Rotten Robert Olmstead – Finalist, ...

6. 2008 SIBA Book Award Winners Announced
(News/SIBA News)

... for the authors and SIBA's core members after the public awards ceremony, and the awards themselves will be included in the general festival publicity. For more information about the SIBA Book Awards ...

7. June/July 2008: The Buy Local Toolkit
(Marketing/Newsletter & Toolkits)

... with a “local” theme—focus on regional authors, regional titles or publishers, reading lists and suggestions from members of the community. By getting your customers involved in your shop, you make them ...

8. Book of the Year & Bookseller of the Year Winners Honored
(News/Latest)

... the Pannell award with members of his staff, who, he said, "bring books into the community and schools ... and are developing a whole new generation of readers at Kepler's.  ...

9. The Future is IndieBound
(News/Latest)

... ABA is sending its independently owned members IndieBound posters, bookmarks, and many other book-related display items during the first two weeks of June. And, importantly, IndieBound materials can be ...

10. Lady Banks' Commonplace Book
(Advertising/Email Marketing)

Lady Banks’ Commonplace Book is SIBA’s primary push vehicle for marketing directly to consumers. A newsletter for people interested in Southern literature, sponsored by booksellers who are members of SIBA ...

11. Email Marketing Opportunities
(Advertising/Email Marketing)

... list once a week to over 1300 media outlets and 500 booksellers. Lists are also archived on Authors ‘Round the South. SIBA eUPDATES: A weekly email update to SIBA members--the fastest way to reach everybody ...

12. Holiday Catalog
(Advertising/Print Advertising)

SIBA sponsors a consumer holiday catalog for its members each fall. The catalog is professionally designed, full-color, and features titles of both national and regional interest. Because the catalog ...

13. Say It Yourself: Mailing List Rentals
(Advertising/Print Advertising)

Mailing Lists: SIBA rents its mailing list of over 1000 bookstores to industry organizations and authors. The mailing list is made available on press-apply labels. Exceptions are made for SIBA members, ...

14. April/May 2008: The Book Award Toolkit
(Marketing/Newsletter & Toolkits)

... SIBA has been circulating a newsletter to its members, and many other people in the industry for over 25 years, and although we can’t speak to it’s value as entertainment, it has always been our primary ...

15. Newsletter Archive
(Marketing/Newsletter & Toolkits)

Until March of 2008, the SIBA newsletter, SIBA Ink!, carried information about the organization, new programs and initiatives, upgraded services and news about the industry and membership.  In April 2008 ...

16. 2008 SIBA Book Award
(Marketing/SIBA Book Award)

... booksellers as can participate. The Decatur Book Festival will host a private reception for the authors and SIBA’s core members before the public awards ceremony, and the awards themselves will be included ...

17. 2008 Holiday Catalog Information
(Marketing/Holiday Catalog)

SIBA sponsors a consumer catalog for its members so that the can make the most of the fall holiday shopping season. These catalogs are professionally designed, full-color, and feature titles of regional ...

18. Southern Independent Bestseller List
(Marketing/Southern Independent Bestseller List)

... members, promoted to the region's newspapers and media, and archived at Authors 'Round the South. The list is printed in dozens of newspapers and is carefully watched by publishers, who love to see their ...

19. Listserv, Websites & Blogs
(Online/SIBA Online)

... avenues: SIBA-hosted websites, free to bookstores SIBA-hosted blogs, free to bookstores SIBA Listserv, an online discussion group about Southern books and bookselling SIBA MySpace, a group for SIBA members ...

20. Lady Banks' Commonplace Book
(Online/SIBA Online)

  Lady Banks' Commonplace Book is a newsletter for people interested in Southern literature, sponsored by booksellers who are members of SIBA. It is marketed directly to consumers -- your customers ...