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The Northern California Independent Booksellers Association (NCIBA) is a trade organization dedicated to supporting, nurturing and promoting independent retail bookselling in California. With over 500 members, including more than 200 booksellers, the NCIBA has been an experienced provider of services for nearly three decades.

Big Changes at 2012 NCIBA Trade Show!

New Date

New Location

 

New Format

Why We’re Changing

We wanted to move to a more compact two-day schedule that maximized show floor traffic, saved attendees money, and got everyone back to work a day sooner.

The Oakland Marriott could not accommodate our new proposed date and format, and their prices continue to rise, so we are moving the show to the South San Francisco Conference Center near SFO and using the next-door Holiday Inn as the host hotel.

We won’t try to paint a rosy picture of the neighborhood, which is largely freeways and frontage roads, but the Conference Center is a cozy and inviting facility, fully carpeted with free wi-fi and free parking, and the Holiday Inn is an above-average airport hotel featuring a Houlihan’s bar and restaurant. And if that's not your cup of tea, attendees can choose to stay in any one of dozen or so other hotels or motels within half a mile — we’ll provide a list down the road.

What Won’t Change

Bookseller participation — The trade show remains a can’t-miss event for our notable and re-energized independents.

Author events — We’ll offer breakfast speakers, our popular and valuable Author Reception, and last year’s Buzz Lunch hit.

Education offerings — Thursday features timely workshops during exhibitor set-up.

We’ll be offering lots more details as the year unfolds, but it’s not too early to mark your calendars and get ready for what we think will be a change for the better.

See more about our last trade show on our Trade Show page.

2011 Eat Read Give Catalog

Here is the rate card (116KB PDF) and contract (72KB PDF) for this year’s Eat Read Give catalog, for the holidays and beyond. Please contact Hut Landon with any questions.

Other Advertising Opportunities

Click here (4.2MB PDF) for information about our newsletter, email blasts, and web site advertising.

Regional Bookseller Association Joint Promotion and Advertising Opportunities

Your friendly and enthusiastic regional independent bookselling trade associations have come together to offer publishers special marketing and promotional opportunities to reach a nationwide audience of indie booksellers—the very people most likely to get behind and handsell your books. In addition to our popular Creative Alert Program, we are now offering cooperative website banner placement and tradeshow badgeholder and attendee bag sponsorships:

The regional associations have worked hard to develop cost-effective marketing opportunities that offer national exposure and still meet your budget. But space is limited, so make your reservations early!

Your regional independent booksellers trade organizations.

New! Banner Ad on all 9 Regional Industry Website Homepages

The nine regional Bookselling Organizations have combined forces to bring yet another fantastic opportunity for promotion & advertising. Our combined websites garner over 300,000 successful page views each month and the number is climbing. These are the online go-to pages for all of our members and interested parties. Book your one week banner ad for $1000 or buy a month long banner ad for the reduced rate of $3500. This is an exclusive spot—your ad will not be in rotation.

Email nicki@sibaweb.com with any questions or to book your banner ad today! You can check the ad out at any of our regional websites and here they are:

New! Regional Tradeshow Bag Sponsorship

2500 bags will be distributed across the nine regional trade shows and we will place four full color process jackets on the bag at $3000 each. The deadline to reserve bag placement is May 1. Email Wanda@sibaweb.com to express your interest.

New! Regional Tradeshow Badgeholder Sponsorship

A single entity can purchase 7500 badgeholders for all nine regional trade shows. This is an exclusive offer and the deadline to reserve is May 1. Email Wanda@sibaweb.com to express your interest.

Northern California Book Awards

The NCIBA presents the Northern California Book Awards every Spring. Awards are given in various categories for books published for the first time in the prior year and written by an author residing in Northern California (we may a residency exception for an author whose book is nominated in the Regional Title category).

Bookseller committees review all book submissions — from publishers and bookseller colleagues — and choose finalists in each category. A Finalists Ballot is then created and distributed to all member bookstores.

Owners and all employees of those stores are eligible to vote; winners are announced by the NCIBA in early April. Bookstores receive promotional materials and stickers for winning titles.

We accept submissions between October 1 and December 31. Committees begin deliberations in January. There is no fee to submit a title; we ask for two copies of the nominated book be sent to the NCIBA office, addressed to Book Awards. Books cannot be returned. Depending how books are shipped, here are the two addresses:

USING U.S. MAIL

Book Awards
NCIBA
PO Box 29169
San Francisco, CA 94129

USING UPS, FEDEX, ETC.

Book Awards
NCIBA
1007 General Kennedy Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94129

2011 Winners (for books published in 2010):

FICTION

Gold Boy, Emerald Girl by Yiyun Li (Random House)

NONFICTION

Packing for Mars by Mary Roach (WW Norton)
Honorable Mention — Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1 (Univ. of California)

POETRY

Come On All You Ghosts by Matthew Zapruder (Copper Canyon)

FOOD WRITING

My Calabria (Rosetta Costantino with Janet Fletcher (WW Norton)

CHILDREN’S PICTURE BOOK

The Quiet Book by Deborah Underwood (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Honorable Mention — Zero by Kathryn Otoshi (KO Kids Books)

TEEN LIT

The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson (Dial)
Honorable Mention — The Mockingbirds by Daisy Whitney (Little Brown Books for Young Readers)

REGIONAL TITLE

Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas by Rebecca Solnit (Univ. of California)
Honorable Mention — State of Change: Forgotten Landscapes of California by Laura Cunningham (Heyday)

Annual Trade Show

Every year, the NCIBA sponsors an annual trade show. It is the single most important coming together for regional booksellers. The 2009 NCIBA Trade Show will be held Thursday, October 14 Saturday, October 16 at the Oakland Convention Center/City Center Marriott. For information about exhibiting, please see the 2010 Exhibitor Information packet (302K PDF).

Our show helps promote the vitality, diversity and prosperity of independent bookselling. We look forward to seeing you there!

NCIBA Newsletter

The Northern California Independent Booksellers Association publishes a regular newsletter of interest to both booksellers and those in the publishing community.