Things to do / Things not to miss

1. Share pictures of your holiday catalog displays. SIBA wants to hear how bookstores are using their holiday catalogs. Email Candice Huber and describe how you plan to use the catalogs, show photos of your displays, and send in ideas. Participating stores are entered to win a $100 gift card! Five gift cards will be awarded. This contest is only available to current SIBA members.
Catalog Marketing Assets

2. Send SIBA your bookstore profile. SIBA runs "Meet the bookseller" profiles in its newsletter and excerpts in the reader-targeted The Southern Bookseller Review. These profiles are a way to both raise the visibility of bookstores within the industry and their own communities and also to introduce booksellers to their colleagues and share some of the good ideas they are implementing to make their businesses successful. Brag about your store.

3. Refresh your Southern Book Prize displays. Southern Book Prize finalists include some of the most popular and beloved books of the year, some still frequently found on the Southern Indie Bestseller List. The Southern Book Prize ballot is open, and a fun way to engage customers on the all-important question of what books deserve to be called "the best Southern book of the year." Readers who vote can win a $100 gift card to their local SIBA bookstore. Bookstores get to hear what their customers love most about them.

4. Do Some Early Housekeeping. Check your SIBA cacount and update your emergency contact information. Please take a moment to log in and confirm that all the information is correct. This is especially important for 2024 because SIBA's membership has grown significantly this year.
Find your account | Add your emergency contact info | Why SIBA is asking for this information

5. SIBA's Office will be closed from 12/24-1/1. SIBA's staff will be out of the office the week after Christmas, so responses to queries will be slow. SIBA reopens with the start of the new year and is looking forward to a fantastic 2025.