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Apply is a Brooklyn-based creative studio that makes extraordinary stickers designed to inspire the artist in each of us. Inspired by the museums, galleries, and gritty stickered streetscapes of their hometown, Apply Stickers lets everyone be their boldest, brightest self.

Bookselling This Week spoke with Apply Stickers CEO and co-founder Spencer Lazar to learn more.

Wolf & Wren Press specializes in thoughtfully designed, high-quality letterpress and digitally printed goods that blend timeless charm with a modern touch. Their collection includes greeting cards, notebooks, stickers, tote bags, and more. 

Bookselling This Week spoke with Wolf & Wren Press co-founder Lauren Stapleton to learn more.

Pixel + Ink Creative creates charming sidelines like enamel pins, bookmarks, stickers, and more, and is based in southwest Louisiana.

Bookselling This Week spoke with Pixel + Ink’s Daneisha Davis to learn more about the company’s designs and origins. 

NetGalley has been providing publishers (and booksellers, librarians, and other professional readers) with an alternative to physical galleys since 2008. Bookselling This Week spoke with Tarah Theoret, NetGalley's Senior Director of Community Experience to learn more.

Zingerman's Training (ZingTrain) offers in-person seminars, virtual workshops, and private trainings that share practical and proven tools to strengthen business systems and build healthy organizational culture. 

Withfriends helps indie bookstores get community support by making it easy to start and manage a membership program. Withfriends makes it incredibly easy to offer things like curated book-of-the-month clubs, exclusive member events, in-store discounts, online discounts, welcome swag kits, monthly book deliveries, and membership drives.

PartnerShip helps small businesses save time and money on all their shipping needs. With a vast network of carrier partnerships and industry knowledge, PartnerShip can help you find all the best shipping options for your store.

Monday, September 30, is International Podcast Day! Celebrate by listening to a bookish podcast from an indie bookstore!

Rebekah Modrak is one of the editors of Trouble in Censorville: The Far Right's Assault on Public Education and the Teachers Who are Fighting Back; Willie Carver, Jr. is a former Kentucky Teacher of the Year and one of the voices in the book.

Tayler Simon is the creator of Liberation is Lit in Columbia, South Carolina. 

Page Anchor offers jewelry quality bookmarks designed for hands-free reading. Owner Colin McKinna met with Bookselling This Week to talk about the product, the company, and his lifelong love of indie bookstores. 

Here is an update on the latest book challenges for the weeks of July 17 and July 24, 2024.