Why re-invent the wheel?

Welcome to The Peer Brain Trust: a collection of content for booksellers road-tested by SIBA and SIBA member bookstores.

Discover and share useful documents and downloads, media and graphics, and much more you can use in your store or adapt for your store's specific needs and challenges. Do you have great ideas or useful content to share with fellow booksellers? Click here to let SIBA know!

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Item Name		Posted By	Date Posted
Current SIBA Webinars Link		Administration	3/3/2020

Item Name		Posted By	Date Posted
Avid Bookshop Event Summary 4/19 Link  [ more ] [ hide ]		Administration	5/6/2019
Avid Bookshop Event Summary for Chelsea Clinton.
Avid Bookshop In-Shop Event Checklist PDF (119.76 KB)		Administration	8/10/2018
Avid Bookshop Offsite Event Sales Checklist PDF (111.28 KB)		Administration	8/10/2018
Avid Event Summary PDF (100.96 KB)  [ more ] [ hide ]		Administration	8/10/2018
This form needs to be filled out immediately after an event and submitted so that the Events Team can write the publisher with results in a timely manner. It is ESSENTIAL that you gather * all lifetime sales *. Make sure you also include OFF-SITE SALES
Event Checklist PDF (55.61 KB)  [ more ] [ hide ]		Administration	6/2/2017
Supplied by the American Booksellers Association, this event checklist is generic to both author and authorless events. Track your event and associated books, and follow the check list and timeline to ensure you are well prepared.
Event Confirmation Sheet (Park Road Books) XLS (17 KB)  [ more ] [ hide ]		Administration	6/2/2017
This is the spreadsheet Park Road Books uses to track events and associated book orders. It can be edited for your store's needs.
Event Information Sheet (Quail Ridge Books) DOC (24 KB)  [ more ] [ hide ]		Administration	6/6/2017
When you confirm an event with a publisher or author, it's helpful to have all the terms and contact information available on a one sheet for reference. This is the form used by Quail Ridge Books (which is why you see their staff names at the top -- you can edit or delete these). The form has space for basic publicist contact info, coop amounts and coop contact.
Event Pitch Sheet sample (The Bookworm) PDF (1.91 MB)  [ more ] [ hide ]		Administration	6/2/2017
When you pitch an event to a publisher, it is helpful to have a sheet on hand with your store's capacity, capabilities, and past examples of successful events. A resume, of sorts. The Bookworm in Edwards, Colorado provides this example of the pitch sheet they give to prospective partners when planning an event.
In-Store Event Checklist (Avid Bookshop) DOCX (11.86 KB)		Administration	4/18/2018
Offsite Event Contract (Bristol Books) DOC (27 KB)  [ more ] [ hide ]		Administration	6/6/2017
This is the contract that Bristol Books in Wilmington, NC used when committing to providing books for offsite events. Terms depended on whether or not the store was expected to staff the event, or just provide merchandise for the event producers to sell on their own. The file is an editable word document, so specific percentages and sales tax figures can be changed to suit your store needs.
Offsite Event Sales Checklist (Avid Bookshop) DOCX (20.73 KB)  [ more ] [ hide ]		Administration	4/2/2019
A handy offsite event sales checklist for booksellers. Adapt to your store's needs!