Independent Bookstore Tours

About Our Tours
Visit area bookstores! Schmooze with real authors! Ride in a luxury tour bus! It's a fun day for book lovers of all ages. Lunch and refreshments included (plus a fun bag of goodies). We'll will be hosting two tours in 2008, one this Spring and one in the Fall to visit Santa Barbara County bookstores & independent wineries. Details to follow soon.

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Summer Quencher Travel Log

  • SCIBA booksellers rubbed elbows at meetings throughout the Southland recently to talk about how to best make IndieBound work for them, using the Holiday Catalog to increase sales and visibility and taking advantage of the Mentor program to improve their businesses.

Literacy Event, 2008

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    Over 100 school librarians, teachers and administrators attended the SCIBA Children’s Books and Literacy Dinner recently. Frank Beddor, Dean Lorey and Jon J. Muth headlined the event as featured speakers, with Robin Preiss Glasser, dressed to the Fancy Nancy hilt, acting as mistress of ceremonies.