A Bookseller Guide to The Southern Bookseller Review
The Southern Bookseller Review website and weekly newsletter feature reviews from Southern indie booksellers and showcases the wide range of
literary tastes and interests of Southern readers. SBR is the evolution of several long-standing, consumer-facing SIBA programs: Authors Round the South, Okra Picks, and The Lady Banks Commonplace Book newsletter.
SBR Reviews come from store websites, newsletters, social media, and submissions to Edelweiss Plus, the book industry platform for marketing and ordering new titles. You can read the press release here.
The SBR Website
The new home of SIBA’s reader-targeted programming, the SBR website includes:
The SBR Newsletter
The Southern Bookseller
Review weekly newsletter replaces the personal missive-style of Lady Banks’ Commonplace Book as a reader-targeted newsletter. SBR is focused on bookseller reviews that demonstrate the wide range of reading interests and literary culture in their communities.
Reviews include a mix of new books, forthcoming books, backlist discoveries, reading lists, and bookstore-centric features such as bookseller profiles or store community initiatives and partnerships. All books are linked back to the reviewing store
for purchase. The primary goal of the newsletter is to emphasize Southern independent booksellers as a source for good and trustworthy recommendations of what to read next, for every kind of reader.
Mobile Responsive and Social Media Friendly
The Southern Bookseller Review website and newsletter are built to be mobile responsive and highly social-media friendly. SIBA is rebranding its own reader-targeted social media accounts to SBR and has added a social media coordinator to its staff
to share SBR reviews and raise the visibility of reviewing stores.
Timeline:
In 2021 SIBA will convert its Lady Banks mailing list to The Southern Bookseller Review. Click here to subscribe to now.
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