New Items From Ideal Bookshelf
Check out these new items from Ideal Bookshelf!
Also, don't miss Jane Mount's new book Bibliophile released this week from Chronicle Books.
Bloomsbury Academic, welcome back to our list of publishers!
We are thrilled to announce that we are now representing Bloomsbury Academic again. They are a leading publisher in humanities, social sciences, and visual arts.
Bloomsbury Academic is home to some fantastic indie bookstore-friendly series like the classic and ongoing 33 1/3 music series, the Object Lessons on the history and design of objects all around us, and the BFI Film Classics series, as well as the Bloomsbury Revelations series of classics of philosophy!
Their terms include seasonal specials offering a generous discount and free freight. We have lots of resources below, including several collections on Edelweiss. Here's their fall catalog.
33 1/3 series
Now publishing 10 per year, this is the acclaimed series of short books about popular music, focusing on individual albums by artists ranging from James Brown to Celine Dion and from J Dilla to Neutral Milk Hotel. Each album covered in the series occupies a very specific place in music history, so each book-length treatment is different. Beloved by fans, musicians and scholars alike. Edelweiss collection here.
Object Lessons series
A series of concise, collectable, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Each book starts from a specific inspiration: an historical event, a literary passage, a personal narrative, a technological innovation-and goes on to explore the object of the title, gleaning a singular lesson or multiple lessons along the way. Written with lucidity and brevity by writers, artists, scholars, journalists, and more. Edelweiss collection here.
BFI Film Classics series
The BFI Film Classics series introduces, interprets and celebrates landmarks of world cinema. Each volume offers an argument for the film's 'classic' status, together with discussion of its production and reception history, its place within a genre or national cinema, an account of its technical and aesthetic importance, and in many cases, the author's personal response to the film. Edelweiss collection here.
And of course, the total Bloomsbury Academic backlist contains so much more. We're very excited to re-introduce this esteemed publisher to you!
Our very own John Mesjak has been named the 2018 Publishers Weekly REP OF THE YEAR!
We are so unbelievably proud! Congratulations, John, and thanks for everything that you do for bookstores, publishers, and your fellow sales reps!
John has been in the Book Business for 28 years and a Book Rep for 18 years. He is one amazing person and anyone who has been lucky enough to work with him knows the passion he has for the written word. We could not think of a better Rep to be the newest PW Rep of the Year!
“John Mesjak, who joined Abraham Associates in 2007, was named PW Rep of the Year one decade after Roy Schonfeld, his colleague at the Midwest-based rep group, received that honor. Before joining Abraham Associates, Mesjak represented Publishers Group West.
In her nominating letter, Kris Kleindienst, co-owner of Left Bank Books in St. Louis, wrote: ‘John has consistently set the standard that all reps should aspire to. He sweats every detail, whether it’s sorting out a shipping confusion, or making sure the right bookstores know about the right books, or letting a publisher know that the cover they have in mind is in need of help. In the publishing and bookselling world, he is all in.’”
Welcome our brand new vendor, the Literary Supply Co.!
We're very excited to welcome our newest vendor – the Literary Supply Company!
Their first season's offering includes tote bags, zipper pouches, boxes of pencils, and boxes of buttons, all with a bookish theme.
You can download their catalog from our site here, and a handy order form here!
If you have any questions, check in with your Abraham Associates sales rep.
They were featured in Shelf Awareness today:
“Dan and Megan Moench have founded Literary Supply Co., a book-related apparel and accessories company in Kaysville, Utah, that is, they say, “all about books, reading and literature.” Products include tote bags, zipper pouches, buttons and boxed pencil sets that feature such titles as Alice in Wonderland and Pride & Prejudice and quotations from Shakespeare, Roald Dahl, Maya Angelou and Henry David Thoreau.
The Moenchs, who have held positions in traditional and educational publishing, said they founded Literary Supply Co. as “a response to the ever-growing demand for smart, fun, book-related products.” They noted that the American Booksellers Association has said that the most profitable indie bookstores generate nearly 20% of revenue from nonbook products and services. “Our goal is to help serve the needs of the most self-supporting industry we’ve ever had the pleasure to do business with—the book trade.””
We're very happy to be able to present Literary Supply Co. to you and to your customers!
Congratulations to Roy Schonfeld, the Voice of the Heartland 2017!
Here's some more news we've been waiting to share! We could not be more proud of Roy!
The Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association and Midwest Independent Booksellers Associations have jointly announced, ahead of the Heartland Fall Forum next month:
“We grant the Voice of the Heartland award to outstanding individuals who uphold the value of independent bookselling and who have made a significant contribution to bookselling in the Midwest. This year's Voice of the Heartland award goes to Roy Schonfeld.
“Roy Schonfeld began his life in books after a stint in the Peace Corps and graduate school at Ohio State. After some years as a bookseller and a book buyer, Roy was one of Stu Abraham's first hires when he started Abraham & Associates in 1992.
“Covering a huge swath of the Midwest representing over 20 publishers, Roy was named Publishers Weekly Rep of the Year in 2008. He has served multiple terms on the board of the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association and continues to contribute to the education program of the Heartland Fall Forum.
“Cary Loren of The Book Beat in Oak Park, MI, a longtime customer and friend, says "Roy is that rare creature in the book rep world able to endorse what he believes in, take orders without padding them, and leave an appointment before rush-hour traffic. We will miss Roy and remember dearly all those multiple trips to his car lugging hundreds of catalogs and samples from the bottomless list of publishers he represents."
“Thank you deeply to Roy for his years of service to booksellers all across the Midwest.”
We couldn't have said it better ourselves. Congratulations and thank you to our friend and colleague, Roy.