Fresh, innovative in-person and virtual programming created by NAIBA and SIBA for booksellers and industry.
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The quarterly Owners Retreats and Strategy Sessions bring store owners from NAIBA and SIBA together to network and share information. Strategy Sessions are virtual meetings held in January, May, and October, focusing on a specific topic. Retreats are in-person and held during the Annual Conference.
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The NVNR Annual Conference and Tradeshow for booksellers members of both NAIBA and SIBA organizations serves sixteen states in the mid-Atlantic and Southeast United States. The conference travels within the combined NAIBA and SIBA regions and is open to all SIBA and NAIBA members.
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NVNR’s Virtual Programming includes its signature online event, Publicity Speed Dating, an invaluable opportunity for bookstores to raise their visibility with publishers. Booksellers get a chance to shine and “pitch” their stores to the undivided attention of publicists from both major publishers and small presses.
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The New Voices New Rooms Exhibitors Orientation for 2026 started on a bittersweet note when retiring NAIBA Executive Director Eileen Dengler opened by commenting that NVNR 2026 would be her 43rd conference, and her last. The orientation emphasized the importance of building relationships between booksellers and the publishers and exhibitors, underscoring that booksellers were at the conference to make connections and do business.
Members of the NAIBA and SIBA board encouraged exhibitors to showcase a diverse range of frontlist and backlist titles, keeping in mind that NVNR drew booksellers from a large geographic area, and that both regional associations had high numbers of new bookstores in their membership.
The NVNR staff also did a walkthrough the conference attendee app, ... Keep Reading
The New Voices, New Rooms (NVNR) Bookseller Orientation on July 15 drew nearly 60 booksellers, interested to hear about the highlights of the upcoming NVNR 2026 conference in Baltimore. Topics included the expanded number of education tracks, the return of some favorite author programming, including the late night "Sip and Sizzle" Romance Authors Reception, and details about the NVNR's Accessibility policy and how the conference is working to remove barriers to attending.
The overall theme was "connection." Facilitating connections between booksellers and vendors, booksellers and authors, booksellers and other booksellers:
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