While creating New Voices New Rooms (NVNR), the virtual meeting space for SIBA and NAIBA, the two organizations took the opportunity to ask questions and reinvent their regional conferences. Covid protocols stripped away business habits and patterns. Now NVNR is moving their Fall Conference to the Summer, and adding a Spring event to provide crucial title introductions for publishers and booksellers. “Summer is when booksellers are focused on their holiday buying, and it made sense to host an event at ... Keep Reading

New Voices New Rooms popular Publicity Speed Dating event returns for 2022! This year the event will be held Tuesday, March 1 through Friday, March 4. Over the course of three and a half days, 72 bookstores will get their (approximately) fifteen minutes in the spotlight to pitch their stores to publicists and make their case why they would be a good fit for future author tours and event programming. There will be morning (9:30am-12:30pm) and afternoon (1:30pm-4:30pm) time blocks ... Keep Reading

New Voices New Rooms is pleased to announce the finalists for The 2021 VIndie Awards, a celebration of Bookstore videos. Winners will be announced at a ceremony on Thursday, September 30 at 6:00 PM ET during the New Voice New Room Trade Show. Michael Triebwasser of Politics & Prose in Washington, DC, will MC. A panel of judges drawn from book industry partners in publishing, bookselling, and media, reviewed over fifty bookstore videos from two dozen independent bookstores, selecting sixteen finalists in the ... Keep Reading