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RAMP is a marketing consortium that includes the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association (NAIBA), the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association (GLIBA), the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA), and the California Independent Booksellers Alliance (CALIBA).

2025 Winter Catalog Guide

2025 Summer Catalog Guide

Indie Booksellers, the OG Influencers RAMP works with your regional association to produce winter catalogs that accellerate fall and winter sales, make your store stand out, benefit your regional association by providing revenue to support booksellers with essential services and industry opportunities

How to use free print and digital winter catalogs to sell more books. Digital catalogs expand online sales. Social media with turnkey marketing assets. Other resources including POS materials, ecommerce templates, digital graphics. Print catalogs--the number one indie bookstore marketing tool of choice. Direct mail to targeted mail routes. Newspaper insertions in local and regional newspapers.

Winter Catalog Details. Up to 5000 catalogs per member store for free, including shipping. Minimum order quantity is 500, in quantities of 500 unless ordering direct mail or newspaper insertions. Quantities over 5000 may be purchased for $55 per 500, or eleven cents per piece for mail or newspapers. Catalogs are full-color, 12 pages, 6 by 10.5 inches. Catalogs can be sent to store, direct mailed, and/or inserted in newspapers. Order and payments due by June 15. Target date for catalog delivery is October 1 (store/newspaper) and November 1 (direct mail).

Key Deadlines: Directed mail orders initiated by June 1. Finalized orders and all payments due by June 15. Catalogs shipped to stores and newspapers on October 1. Catalogs mailed to customers on November 1.