• Professional Booksellers School - Bookstore Finances Registration Opens Monday, March 4 at 10 AM PT
• Children's Institute 2024 Registration Opens March 7th at 10AM PT
• Spring Forum Oakland - Register Now!
• Tentative Schedule
• Order Your Summer Catalogs by March 15th
• Ramp 101 Session Recording
• Dates and Deadlines
• Bestseller Lists
• Classifieds
• Bookseller Resources

Bookstore Finances

Registration opens Monday, March 4 at 10am PT.

This course is geared towards store owners and/or managers who handle finances on a day-to-day basis and is for educational purposes only, meaning no certification is earned for this course.

Bookstore Finances is designed to educate on an independent bookstore's day-to-day and long-term finance-related needs, considering both high-level financial topics such as taxes and accounting and deep dives into financial reporting and strategy. A mix of webinars, handouts, and assignments will be used to guide the student toward creating financial systems and strategies for real-time applications.

Use the CALIBA discount code to get $25 off: CALIBAbf

CALIBA will reimburse booksellers for the completion and certification of each course. For those auditing courses, 1/2 of the cost will be reimbursed with proof of attendance. To qualify, booksellers must be owners or employees of a current CALIBA bookstore.

Children’s Institute 2024 (Ci2024) will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana!

• Thursday, March 7: Registration opens at 10:00 am PT.
• Children’s Institute Registration: $275
• Thursday, March 28:Hotel Registration opens.
• $189 plus tax per night
• April: Bookstore Tour Registration opens.

We are confirming authors, and we are building education sessions. Take a look at the schedule so far. Registration is open!

Online registration closes on March 22. We welcome registration at the door.

Need a hotel room?Book by March 14th to secure CALIBA's discounted rate. 

Scholarships available.

Education sessions we have planned:

• SALES REPS AND BUYERS: How To Work Together For the Good of Both Bookstores and Publishers
• ROUNDTABLE: CHILDRENS BOOK DISCOVERY: How Kids Are Discovering New Titles and How Booksellers Can Respond
• ROUNDTABLE: CHANGEMAKER'S ROUNDTABLE: Booksellers Discuss Key Issues Faced By Bookstores. Where Can We Organize, Lobby, and Exert Pressure? 
• ROUNDTABLE: CITIZEN OF THE BOOKWORLD: Elevating the Voice of Indie Bookstores through Indiebound, Golden Poppies, Bestseller Reporting, Indie Next list, etc
• SPREADSHEETS & TECHNOLOGY FOR OPERATIONS

Thank you to the booksellers that joined our RAMP 101 last week! Missed the session?Watch the recording!

Folio Books, we will miss you so much.

Check out these wonderful titles that Cellar Door Bookstore in Riverside featured at the Black Child Book Fair @ RCC!

An exciting update on Bel Canto Books' second location in Long Beach!

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• February: Black History Month

• March:Indie Press Month

• March 4: 10 AM PTBookstore Finances PBS Class Registration Opens

• March 7: 10 AM PT:Ci2024 Registration Opens

• March 13:Deadline to nominate a bookseller for the James Patterson Bookseller Bonus Program

• March 31:Last day to sign up for Independent Bookstore Day general participation

• April 3: Oakland Spring Forum

• May (date tba): Spring Forum SoCal

• Sept. 17 & 18: Fall Trade Show - Pasadena Hilton

Click herefor the Los Angeles Times & Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestseller List

Click herefor the San Francisco Chronicle & Northern California Independent Bookstore Bestseller List

• *New*Bookseller, Children's Department- Mrs. Dalloway's Literary and Garden Art Store, Berkeley
• Reading Group Choices for Sale
• Childrens Book Specialist- Book Passage, Corte Madera
• Calling all LA Bookstores and Pop-Ups! - Bookstore Crawl 2024

• Join the CALIBA Edelweis Community -Email Valentina
• Golden Poppy Awards 2023 Resources: digital toolkit, finalist and winners lists, and awards ceremony
• The Brown Bookshelf
• Anti-Censorship Resources
• Binc Foundation's Mental Health Program
• Panorama Picks - Books in Demand at US Libraries

Clickherefor a complete list.

Support CALIBA

Publishers support CALIBA when bookstores participate.

Bookstore Participation = Publisher Sponsorship = CALIBA = Bookstore Education, Advocacy, Networking +++

Ann Seaton, Stonyford 415-561-7686 ext. 101