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With the arrival of every new year comes a special day for every IPG staffer—New Catalog Day. As a freshly-printed copy is placed on each desk, we eagerly await the chance to flip through and see what the upcoming season has in store.
Most of us have been familiar with these titles at least since they were … Read More »

Pelican Book Group received some very exciting news near the end of last year. The publisher of high-quality Christian fiction was given the opportunity to discuss their values in a whole different media—television!
Here, Editor-in-Chief Nicola Martinez discusses her new television program “On Purpose,” how Pelican Book Group came to fruition, and their collective goal of glorifying Christ … Read More »

“People love Pittsburgh.” This was Janet Potter’s biggest takeaway from this year’s New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association’s Fall Conference, even though the show was held in downtown Baltimore.
Here, Janet discusses her first impressions of NAIBA’s annual fall conference, the effects of having a short 4-hour window for exhibition, and the importance of “handing someone a book … Read More »

IPG Marketing Associate Niki Stuckmann left the bustle of Chicago last weekend to travel across the Land of 10,000 Lakes to the Heartland Fall Forum. Here, she shares her biggest takeaways of the gathering of “the backbone of literary culture throughout the Midwest.”
What were the main events of the show? How do they relate/tie-in to the … Read More »

Some of our modern age’s most meaningful, trenchant, and beautiful books have at one time or another been banned. Last week, the book community at large came together to celebrate Banned Books Week—a week of celebrating the freedom to read. Here, the IPG staff picks the books that resonated most with them.

 
Enjoy our top picks and remember—#readindependently!

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
—Leanna … Read More »

The NEIBA Fall Conference lights up Providence every September, bringing with it booksellers, publishers, and representatives from all over the region eager to learn more about what’s happening in the industry. This year, IPG Trade Sales Manager Aaron Howe relays the importance of building relationships with emerging indies, the successful presence of IPG publisher Coralstone Press, and the … Read More »

Savannah, Georgia, a city aptly nicknamed “The Hostess City of the South,” welcomed hundreds of independent bookstores and booksellers to the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance annual trade show last week. Hosted by a different city every year, SIBA’s annual trade show aims to unite in one organization individuals and businesses actively engaged in the writing, selling, publishing, distribution … Read More »

PM Press is an independent publisher that specializes in radical, Marxist and anarchist literature, as well as crime fiction, graphic novels, music CDs, and political documentaries. In other words, PM Press is the coolest.
Here, co-Founder Craig O’Hara walks us through how a history of anarchism and activism has led PM Press to the success they see … Read More »

Written for the IPG blog by Sandy Poirier Smith, President, Smith Publicity
Publishers know competition is fierce for reviewer, media, and book buyer attention. Whether working with a book publicist—who is reaching out to newspaper, magazine, radio, television, online, blog and/or podcasts for interviews, articles, reviews, and feature stories—or devising their own plan, publishers need to … Read More »