The Southern Bookseller Review launches thematic monthly issue

The Southern Bookseller Review is a reader-targeted website and weekly newsletter showcasing book reviews  and staff picks from Southern indie booksellers. Reviews come from store websites, newsletters, social media, and submissions to Edelweiss Plus, the book industry platform for marketing and ordering new titles. Since SBR was first delivered in January 2021, the newsletter's readership has grown almost twenty percent. Bookstores are using their posted reviews as "staff picks" on their own store websites.

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This year SBR is launching a monthly thematic "special edition" of the newsletter, featuring bookseller reviews of books around a specific topic. The February edition "Celebrating Black Voices" released February 18, generating an open rate of over 50%,, and a click through rate of 28%.

Reservations are now being accepted for future Special Editions:

• March: Women's History (sold out!)
• April: Poetry Month
• May: Motherhood
• June: Pride Month
• July: Summer Reads
• August: Cooking/harvest
• Sept.: National Hispanic Heritage/Latinx Voices
• Oct: Spooky!
• Nov: Regional Holiday Reads
• Dec.: Winter Reads

Each edition is published mid month, on the Friday of the week of the 15th. To be eligible for inclusion, a book must have a positive review from a SIBA bookseller, and must be available at industry standard terms. Pre-orders are accetable. Cost for inclusion is $399 per review.

Please contact lindamarie@sibaweb.com to reserve your listing.