Administration/Projects
Send project-related
questions (Fall Discovery Show, Winter Catalog, Reading the West Book Awards, Website)
plus bills, invoices,
and payments to:

MPIBA Administration
c/o Kathy Keel
208 E. Lincoln Avenue

Fort Collins, CO 80524

Mark Your Calendar!

Fall Discovery Show (Trade Show) 2016

October 6-8, 2016
The Renaissance
Denver Hotel

The Winter Catalog Sells Books. Lots of Books.

By now, most of the MPIBA bookstores have received their imprinted Winter Catalogs ... and quite a few bookstores have already inserted in quantity into their local or regional newspapers, completed direct mail campaigns, and placed the catalogs around their store and around town.

We hope that the catalog will contribute to every bookstore's robust sales during the holiday season and beyond!

And Giraffes Are Hot.

"I've already had to reorder A TOWER OF GIRAFFES!"

Vicki Law Burger, Wind City Books in Casper, Wyoming
(The spectacular art from this title is featured throughout this year's Winter Catalog.)

Booksellers Raved in 2014

"I was so busy in December ... the Winter Catalog was a huge success for me! It brought so many people in the store that I didn't know existed!"

Marya Johnston, Out West Books in Grand Junction, Colorado

"Our December was off the charts. The catalog sales were great. Looking forward to another busy year."

Karen Berg, Next Page Books & Nosh in Frisco, Colorado

"People just flowed in, waving the catalog."

Susie Wilmer, Old Firehouse Books in Fort Collins, Colorado

Making the Most of
Your Winter Catalogs

Put a pdf of the catalog on your website:

Visit this page to download the full-size Winter Catalog.

Or use a JPG image to link to the catalog PDF.

Click here to download JPGs of the cover art in different sizes.

Add the titles to your IndieCommerce site:

See article below or click here for instructions under "MPIBA"

Keep the catalog titles in stock:

Download the ISBN Title List (scroll halfway down the page).

Take advantage of Partners/West

generous offer:

43% discount on all orders of 25 books or more; penalty-free returns until February 1, 2016. Returns must be made separately and marked "catalog return."

More ideas if you are new to the process:

Insert in local papers. Many stores have already inserted and and are continuing to insert into local and regional newspapers.
Mail to customers.
Place in other retail outlets.
Stuff in bags, hand out at your events and other community events.
Bring it to local independent living communities and take orders.
Have staffers choose a title they think will do well and have a competition to see which title sells the most copies. The winning bookseller gets a gift certificate or prize.
Build a store display. Carry this throughout the store with mini displays in different sections.
Use the Shelf Talkers sent in your boxes of catalogs to visually connect the book on the shelf to the catalog in hand.
Include the catalog in book shipments.

Winter Catalog Online
with IndieCommerce

Add the catalog titles to your
IndieCommerce website.

For IndieCommerce stores, the 2015 MPIBA Winter Catalog page has now been added to the IndieCommerce site. To use it, all you need to do is individualize the link below and publicize it.

Your visitors can view, click, and order the titles. The page is automatically "hooked into" the shopping cart on your site, so when customers click on "Buy Now" they'll be inside your online shop.

Click here for instructions under "MPIBA"

ABA's Winter Institute to Feature MPIBA Bookstores

City Stacks Books & Coffee

Bookstore Tours:

BookBar

The Bookies Bookstore

Boulder Book Store

City Stacks Books & Coffee

HearthFire Books

Second Star to the Right Books

Tattered Cover Book Store Aspen Grove

Tattered Cover Book Store LoDo

Boulder Book Store

Scholarship Winners' Meet & Greet:

The Tattered Cover - Colfax Avenue store

Publisher-sponsored Wi11 Scholarship Recipients from the MPIBA region:

Consortium: Elisa Rivera, Changing Hands Bookstore, Tempe, AZ

Lonely Planet: Amy Daniken, Back of Beyond Books, Moab, UT

Winter Institute Welcome Reception:

The Tattered Cover - Colfax Avenue store

Tattered Cover Book Store LoDo

MPIBA to Host Hospitality Suite at Winter Institute

Eric Boss and Kathy Keel will represent MPIBA and welcome Wi11 bookseller attendees in the Plaza Court 8 meeting room.

So come by, have a beverage, put your feet up, and visit with us!

Sunday, January 24 - 9:00am to 4:00pm

Monday, January 25 - 9:00am to 4:00pm

Tuesday, January 26 - 9:00am to 4:00pm

Reading the West Nomination Deadline December 31, 2015

But you can nominate your favorite 2015 titles now ...

Bookseller members, publishers, sales reps, and authors can nominate titles for this prestigious award.

These adult and children's titles exemplify the best in writing and/or illustrations whose subject matter is set in the region or invokes the spirit of the region.

The author's place of residence is immaterial for this award.

Click here to complete the Nomination Form.

Publication date for titles: January 1 - December 31, 2015

Nomination period: January 1 - December 31, 2015

Nominations close: January 1, 2016

Shortlist announcement: March 31, 2016

Winners announced: May 30, 2016

Winners recognized: Fall Discovery Show, October 6-8, 2016

Nominate as soon as possible, so that you will be able to get review copies of your titles out to our Selection Committee members!