Indie Press Month 2024

For 2024, IPC is organizing a soft-launch of our program for Indie Press Month. We’re providing marketing assets for bookstores and indie publishers, and promoting a list of titles from IPC member presses.

2024 Winners & Co-Op Recipients

First Prize: This House of Books, Billings, MT
Runner-Up: Linden Tree Books, Los Altos, CA

Co-Op Recipients:
Book People, Austin, TX
Off the Beaten Path Bookstore, Steamboat Springs, CO
Betties Pages, Lowell, MI
Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill, NC
Novel., Memphis, TN

Bookmark bundles will be available to any store that signs up at Winter Institute. We’re sorry we don’t currently have the ability to mail bookmarks to individual stores.

Indie Press Month Display Contest for Bookstores

  • $500 for the winning display by an independent bookstore

  • $50 in co-op for the first five stores to submit display photos and an #indiepressmonth social media post (tag us on Instagram @indiepubs) in March

How to Participate

  • Sign-up!

  • Create an in-store display for March (40% of titles displayed should be Indie Press Month Display titles; all should be indie presses—see our member list!)

  • Send pictures of your display to IPC (instructions sent in late February)

  • Make a social media post (use #indiepressmonth and tag us on Instagram @indiepubs)*

  • Continue to support independent presses year-round!

Questions, ideas, marketing asset requests?
Let us know at info@indiepubs.org!

*IPC currently only uses Instagram. If you want to post a TikTok, please do, but for the contest, we’re focusing on Instagram this year.

for IPC Member Presses

Indie Press Month is a program of Indie-to-Indie, a partnership with The Independent Bookseller, and sponsored by Bookshop.org