Welcome to the Bookseller Resources Page
Here, you will find a selection of helpful resources to help you take part in Independent Booksellers Week and run your own events. New resources for IBW 2011 will be added all the time, including information to help booksellers organize events around National Reading Group Day on Saturday 25th June.
To take part, first please register with us. Registration for BA Members is free and you’ll receive a free Point-of-Sale kit, access to resources and PR support. Click IBW 2011 Bookseller Registration Form to download the registration form, or email Sharon.
Point of sale kits have been sent to all registered bookshops, dispatched on our behalf by Gardners. We also have a newly-updated IBW 2011 Guide to Running Bookshop Events & Publicising Your Shop to help you plan your events – it’s a thorough and practical overview of events organization, and has a useful list of press contacts too.
Here are some of the 2011 Point of Sale Kit items, ready for you to download: 
Also, we now have our 2011 IBW Quiz, ideal for bookish ice-breakers – here are the IBW 2011 Quiz for Indies – Questions Only. You have to email meryl.halls@booksellers.org.uk for the Answer Sheet. Enjoy.
And, as if that wasn’t enough, we have a Book Lover’s Competition, which you can print out and use in-store during IBW. Also NBTs prizes for this, as well as an opportunity for a return visit to the shop.
Book Lover’s Quiz Adult 2011 (UK)
Book Lover’s Quiz Adult 2011 (Ireland)
Book Lover’s Quiz Children 2011 UK
Book Lover’s Quiz Children 2011 Ireland
We are now also delighted to have available the REGIONAL PRESS LISTS for booksellers to use in their PR activities around IBW. Don’t forget to contact penny.clifton@midaspr.co.uk for advice, or to let her know your plans. And to help further, there is a press release template for you to base your releases on – PR Template 2011
Local Press Contacts Lists
Regional Press Lists – IBW 2011 – Central and Midlands
Regional Press Lists – IBW 2011 – East
Regional Press Lists – IBW 2011 – London
Regional Press Lists – IBW 2011 – North East
Regional Press Lists – IBW 2011 – Scotland
Regional Press Lists – IBW 2011 – South East
Regional Press Lists – IBW 2011- North West
Regional Press Lists – IBW 2011- South West
Regional Press Lsits – IBW 2011 – Wales
You can click below to view all the IBW Bookseller Bulletins we have sent out so far and also to view the Michael O’Mara Doodle Pack leaflet.
Bookseller Bulletin 1 – 1st April
Bookseller Bulletin 2 – 4th April
Bookseller Bulletin 3 – Random House
Bookseller Bulletin 4 – MOM Doodle Packs
Bookseller Bulletin 5- Elizabeth Chadwick
Bookseller Bulletin 6 – Random House 2
Bookseller Bulletin 7- Walker Costumes Etc
Bookseller Bulletin 8- Hodder Authors
Bookseller Bulletin 9 – HarperCollins Reading Group Guides
Bookseller Bulletin 10 – Walker Authors
Bookseller Bulletin 11 – Simon Schuster Authors
Bookseller Bulletin 12 – Holland Park Press
Bookseller Bulletin 13 – Susie Cornfield
Bookseller Bulletin 14 – HarperCollins
Bookseller Bulletin 15 – Orion Authors
Bookseller Bulletin 16 – HarperCollins Children’s Authors
Bookseller Bulletin 17 – Bateman Competition from Headline
Bookseller Bulletin 18 – Scatterered Authors Society
Bookseller Bulletin 19 – Allen & Unwin – Charity Norman
Bookseller Bulletin 20- Guide to Bookshop Events
Bookseller Bulletin 21 – David Pryce Jones
Bookseller Bulletin 22 – Overheard Competition
Bookseller Bulletin 23 – Caption Competition
Bookseller Bulletin 24 – Ladybird
Bookseller Bulletin 25 – Point of Sale Kits
Bookseller Bulletin 26 – Orion Update Author List
Bookseller Bulletin 27 – Galaxy Chocolate
Bookseller Bulletin 28 – Headline Author and Reading Groups
Bookseller Bulletin 30 – Orion- Rebecca Shaw
Bookseller Bulletin 31 – IBW Book Award Shortlist Announced
Bookseller Bulletin 32 – Quiz Available Now
IBW Bookseller Bulletin – 33 HarperCollins On Nature (amend)
Bookseller Bulletin 34 – Reading Groups
Bookseller Bulletin 35 – Anniversaries for 2011
Bookseller Bulletin 36- IBW Book Award POS
Bookseller Bulletin 37 – Book Lover’s Comptation for Adults
Bookseller Bulletin 38 – Update on National Reading Group Day
Bookseller Bulletin 39 – Offer from Octopus
Bookseller Bulletin 40 – Meadowside & Gullane
Bookseller Bulletin 41 – Book Lover’s Competition for Children
Bookseller Bulletin 42 -Independent’s Day 4th July
Bookseller Bulletin 43 – Natioanl Reading Group Day Library Involvement
Bookseller Bulletin 44 – IBW Photo Spread in Bookseller Magazine
IBW Bookseller Bulletin 45 – NRGD Big Green Bookshop World Record Attempt
Bookseller Bulletin 46 – Dawn French Launches NRGD Competition for Reading Groups!
Bookseller Bulletin 48 – TV Book Club Launches on back of NRGD
Bookseller Bulletin 49 – Overheard In a Bookshop
Don’t forget to let us know what events you are planning for IBW. The earlier you let us know, the better able we are to get that information back to publishers, and to post it on the website, and so onto consumers.
Forget-Me-Not Books IBW display 2009
Last year, many independent booksellers benefited from being part of IBW. Below are four inspiring examples of events held, which may give you an idea of the huge variety of fun events possible.
IBW Children’s Storytime event
IBW An Evening with Maureen Duffy
IBW Elmer’s Fancy Dress Tea Party
IBW Book Club Launch Evening
It’s important to tell people about the events you’re doing. IBW is supported by Midas PR, a leading public relations agency, who will be showcasing the work of Independent Booksellers Week through the national press. Please contact Penny at Midas PR with details of events your organising, so we can aim to include them in any press coverage generated. Please also let Sharon know about your events, so that we can include them here on the IBW website. You can also contact your local press with details of what you’re planning for IBW.
Above all, IBW is a great opportunity for everyone to celebrate independent booksellers. Get involved and enjoy!