PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2021 by Angela Bole, CEO, Independent Book Publishers Association — Get to know Adeline Lui, IBPA’s new director of marketing and communications. I have exciting news to share this month from the IBPA office. In August 2021, the five-person IBPA staff was joined by a sixth member of the team: Adeline Lui, our …

PUBLISHED MAY/JUNE 2021 by Angela Bole, CEO, Independent Book Publishers Association — IBPA members gathered virtually on April 7, 2021, from 10 a.m. to noon Pacific for the 2021 Annual Meeting of Members. Here’s a brief snapshot of what happened. State of the Association In my “State of the Association” remarks, I discussed, IBPA’s Mission, …

PUBLISHED NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2020 by Karen Pavlicin, Publisher, Elva Resa Publishing — Enabling positive, actionable, systemic change. IBPA’s 2020-2022 Strategic Plan, developed by the IBPA Board of Directors in August 2019, includes the strategic goal of eliminating bias and enhancing diversity within the association. To help reach this goal, a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Task …

PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2020 by Angela Bole, CEO, Independent Book Publishers Association — Here are IBPA’s 2020-2022 goals and strategies for leading and serving the independent publishing community. During a meeting held in August 2020, the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) Board of Directors reviewed and reaffirmed the association’s Strategic Plan for the years 2020 through …

PUBLISHED MAY/JUNE 2020 by Angela Bole, CEO, Independent Book Publishers Association — IBPA gathered for their first virtual annual meeting to learn about the state of the association, approve revisions to IBPA bylaws and vote for IBPA board canditates. Following the cancellation of IBPA’s in-person Annual Meeting of Members scheduled for April 4, 2020, in …

PUBLISHED MAY/JUNE 2020 Get to know incoming IBPA Board Chair Karla Olson Karla Olson starts her one-year term as chair of the IBPA Board of Directors on July 1, 2020. What is your current company and role, and how long have you been involved in independent publishing? I am the publisher of the book program …

PUBLISHED MAY/JUNE 2020 Read Brooke Warner’s parting message to the IBPA community and get to know the new IBPA Board Chair and Board Members Brooke Warner completes six years of service on the IBPA Board of Directors on June 30, 2020 (four years as an at-large board member and two years as chair). Each outgoing …

PUBLISHED MAY/JUNE 2020 by Robin Cutler, Director, IngramSpark — Authors & publishers who have invested in engaging directly with readers and have made their content available in multiple formats will be the best positioned to weather this storm. I’m writing this on March 20, 2020, at the beginning of the alarming escalation in the United …

PUBLISHED MARCH/APRIL 2020 by Seth Dellon, Director of Strategic Development, Publishers Weekly — IBPA Board Member Seth Dellon considers 2019 member survey results. In late 2019, IBPA reached out to members to hear about the biggest lessons they learned over the past year. My lesson was that indie publishers are uniquely positioned to go direct …

PUBLISHED NOV/DEC 2019 by Peter Trimarco, Co-Owner/Publisher, Notable Kids Publishing — Many independent publishers, and specifically author publishers, go independent because they have a strong vision and want full control over the editorial and design processes. This was how it was with me. I established Notable Kids Publishing in 2016 to publish children’s picture and …