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Applications Open September 1 for Carla Gray Memorial Scholarship for Emerging Bookseller-Activists

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Book Industry Charitable (Binc) Foundation

The Book Industry Charitable (Binc) Foundation is accepting applications for the Carla Gray Memorial Scholarship for Emerging Bookseller-Activists Sept. 1-20, 2025. The winning bookseller will be awarded a year-long scholarship for professional development, which includes travel and hotel to attend Winter Institute 2026, travel and hotel to attend their 2026 regional fall tradeshow and a $1,000 stipend to fund a community outreach project. Eligibility requirements and the application can be found here. 

The goal of the community outreach project is to find new readers and ensure access to books that improve readers’ lives while integrating bookstores even more fully into their communities. Meet past winners and learn about their projects.

This year’s scholarship will be the seventh awarded by the Friends of Carla Gray Committee and the Binc Foundation. It is intended to help a bookseller with at least one, but fewer than 10 years of experience connect with other booksellers, publishers and authors, and establish the long-term relationships needed to keep the book industry thriving.

Bookshop.org and Two Trees Press Donate in Support of Book and Comic People

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Bookshop.org and Two Trees Press, publisher of Among Friends: An Illustrated Oral History of American Book Publishing and Bookselling in the 20th Century, have joined forces to support the Book Industry Charitable Foundation. They have contributed $5,000 to BINC, an organization that is dedicated to assisting booksellers and comic shop employees in need.

Two Trees Press was founded in 2022 with a focus on 20th century American book publishing and bookselling. Among Friends, a 576-page limited edition book, was published in September 2023 with assistance from Publishers Weekly and Ingram Content Group.  A new trade paperback edition, geared to the general reader at an affordable price, is in the works.

To learn more about Binc and how it supports book and comic people visit .

Explore the New Worlds and New Frontiers of DSTLRY with Humble Bundle

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Expand your personal library and explore the rich worlds and captivating stories of DSTLRY with the all-new New Frontier of Comics Bundle! This 25+ comic collection features Somna, Gone, Spectregraph, and more from one of the medium’s freshest indie publishers. DSTLRY is creator-owned, offers awesome limited-edition runs, and focuses on digital distribution. Lose yourself in this expansive library and help support BINC with your purchase!

The New Frontier of Comics From DSTLRY Book Bundle features 27 items with a retail value of $450. You can get them all for $18.

New Frontier of Comics From DSTLRY Book Bundle

Tiny Onion and Humble Bundle Team for The Frightening and Fantastic Worlds of James Tynion IV Bundle, Benefiting The Binc Foundation

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Tiny Onion has announced a team-up with Humble Bundle for “The Frightening and Fantastic Worlds of James Tynion IV” bundle—in collaboration with comic book publishers DC, BOOM! Studios, Image Comics, Dark Horse Comics, and DSTLRY. Partial proceeds from the bundle will benefit The Binc Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to assisting comic book retailers and booksellers across the United States with support for employees, owners, and their families experiencing unexpected financial crises.

Valued at over $628, the digital comics bundle provides an accessible jumping-on point for new readers and existing fans alike with a pay-what-you-want charitable model. “The Frightening and Fantastic Worlds of James Tynion IV” bundle features 41 popular titles, including Eisner and GLAAD Award-winning books co-created by New York Times bestselling writer, Tynion. It will include all eight available volumes of the BOOM! Studios groundbreaking monster-slayer series Something is Killing the Children, which has sold over 5 million copies worldwide and is headed for the screen, as well as all volumes of popular spinoff titles Books of Slaughter (Vol. 1-3) and House of Slaughter (Vol. 1-6). And with the fifth anniversary of critically acclaimed conspiracy theory thriller The Department of Truth coming this September, readers can catch up by investigating the cases in the first four volumes of the Image Comics series, as well as The Department of Truth: Wild Fictions collected edition, ahead of the release of the much anticipated issue #0. The bundle will also include both volumes of DC’s multi-Eisner Award-winning series The Nice House on the Lake by Tynion and artist Álvaro Martínez Bueno.

Readers will be able to explore the frightening and fantastic worlds of mastermind Tynion through this limited time offer which will also include digital volumes and issues of bestselling books like The Woods, Wynd, Memetic, and The Backstagers from BOOM! Studios; The Closet, The Deviant, and WORLDTR33 from Image Comics; Blue Book, The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos, and True Weird from Dark Horse Comics; and Spectregraph from DSTLRY.

“The Frightening and Fantastic Worlds of James Tynion IV” bundle will be available until August 7.

Image Comics’ The Return of the Leading Ladies Humble Bundle Benefits BINC

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Humble Bundle has teamed up with Image Comics for the Return of the Leading Ladies Bundle—a powerhouse collection of femme-led stories like It’s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth, Paper Girls Vols. 1–6, Saga Vols. 1–10, and more. This 30+ title library doesn’t pander—it celebrates the full spectrum of the femme experience without drowning it in pink. Pay what you want for these standout comics from Image and support BINC with your purchase.

The Return of the Leading Ladies bundle features 36 items with a retail value of $836 and you can get it all for just $24.

Return of the Leading Ladies Humble Bundle

Binc Announces Winners of the Annual Scholarships to Support Professional Development and Diversity in the Bookselling Industry

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The Book Industry Charitable (Binc) Foundation has announced the winners of two scholarships managed by the foundation—the Macmillan Booksellers Professional Development Scholarship and the George Keating Memorial Scholarship.

The Macmillan scholarship allows booksellers from underrepresented groups to attend their region’s independent book association trade show. Each scholarship covers the cost of travel, lodging and meals up to $750. The winners were selected in an identity-hidden review process by a panel of employees from Macmillan and members of the Binc program committee.

  • CALIBA: Kealie Mardell-Carrera, Underdog Bookstore, CA 
  • GLIBA: Keeley Malone, Ink Drinkers Anonymous, IN 
  • MIBA: Verlean Singletary, Da Book Joint, IL
  • MPIBA: Kat Paton, Country Bookshelf, MT
  • NAIBA: Eleanor Cugal, Penguin Bookshop, PA
  • NEIBA: Ernio Hernandez, CT
  • PNBA: Larissa Berry, Montana Book Company Redux, MT 
  • SIBA: Karen Goforth-Harbin, Archimedes & Loft Books, NC

The Keating Memorial scholarship provides $500 to a bookseller in the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association (NAIBA), Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA), and New England Independent Booksellers Association (NEIBA), for the purpose of professional development. The winners are chosen by each regional association. NEIBA deferred the scholarship for this year.

  • Yulia Watters, Finist and the Owl, DE, NAIBA
  • Rachel Bolton, Wicked Good Books, Salem, MA, NEIBA
  • Crystel Calderon, Portkey Books, FL, SIBA

Tiny Onion and Humble Bundle Team for The Frightening and Fantastic Worlds of James Tynion IV Bundle, Benefiting The Binc Foundation

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Tiny Onion has announced a team-up with Humble Bundle for “The Frightening and Fantastic Worlds of James Tynion IV” bundle—in collaboration with comic book publishers DC, BOOM! Studios, Image Comics, Dark Horse Comics, and DSTLRY. Partial proceeds from the bundle will benefit The Binc Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to assisting comic book retailers and booksellers across the United States with support for employees, owners, and their families experiencing unexpected financial crises.

Valued at over $628, the digital comics bundle provides an accessible jumping-on point for new readers and existing fans alike with a pay-what-you-want charitable model. “The Frightening and Fantastic Worlds of James Tynion IV” bundle features 41 popular titles, including Eisner and GLAAD Award-winning books co-created by New York Times bestselling writer, Tynion. It will include all eight available volumes of the BOOM! Studios groundbreaking monster-slayer series Something is Killing the Children, which has sold over 5 million copies worldwide and is headed for the screen, as well as all volumes of popular spinoff titles Books of Slaughter (Vol. 1-3) and House of Slaughter (Vol. 1-6). And with the fifth anniversary of critically acclaimed conspiracy theory thriller The Department of Truth coming this September, readers can catch up by investigating the cases in the first four volumes of the Image Comics series, as well as The Department of Truth: Wild Fictions collected edition, ahead of the release of the much anticipated issue #0. The bundle will also include both volumes of DC’s multi-Eisner Award-winning series The Nice House on the Lake by Tynion and artist Álvaro Martínez Bueno.

Readers will be able to explore the frightening and fantastic worlds of mastermind Tynion through this limited time offer which will also include digital volumes and issues of bestselling books like The Woods, Wynd, Memetic, and The Backstagers from BOOM! Studios; The Closet, The Deviant, and WORLDTR33 from Image Comics; Blue Book, The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos, and True Weird from Dark Horse Comics; and Spectregraph from DSTLRY.

“The Frightening and Fantastic Worlds of James Tynion IV” bundle will be available until August 7.

Image Comics’ The Return of the Leading Ladies Humble Bundle Benefits BINC

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Humble Bundle has teamed up with Image Comics for the Return of the Leading Ladies Bundle—a powerhouse collection of femme-led stories like It’s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth, Paper Girls Vols. 1–6, Saga Vols. 1–10, and more. This 30+ title library doesn’t pander—it celebrates the full spectrum of the femme experience without drowning it in pink. Pay what you want for these standout comics from Image and support BINC with your purchase.

The Return of the Leading Ladies bundle features 36 items with a retail value of $836 and you can get it all for just $24.

Return of the Leading Ladies Humble Bundle

Get your summer reading excitement with Humble Bundle’s The Rick Remender Collection Comic Bundle

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Lose yourself in the renowned works of comic book writer and animator Rick Remender with the latest Humble Comics Bundle, The Rick Remender Collection Comic Bundle. Get 30+ volumes of amazing Image Comics titles like SEVEN TO ETERNITY, Vol. 1, DEADLY CLASS, Vol. 1, BLACK SCIENCE, Vol. 1, and more. Read the very best from this legendary creator and help support The BINC Foundation with your purchase. Style, story, and mystique—this bundle has it all! This bundle supports Book Industry Charitable Foundation.

The Rick Remender Collection Comic Bundle features 47 items with a $735 value for just $24.

Rick Remender Collection Comic Bundle

Get your summer reading excitement with Humble Bundle’s The Rick Remender Collection Comic Bundle

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Lose yourself in the renowned works of comic book writer and animator Rick Remender with the latest Humble Comics Bundle, The Rick Remender Collection Comic Bundle. Get 30+ volumes of amazing Image Comics titles like SEVEN TO ETERNITY, Vol. 1, DEADLY CLASS, Vol. 1, BLACK SCIENCE, Vol. 1, and more. Read the very best from this legendary creator and help support The BINC Foundation with your purchase. Style, story, and mystique—this bundle has it all! This bundle supports Book Industry Charitable Foundation.

The Rick Remender Collection Comic Bundle features 47 items with a $735 value for just $24.

Rick Remender Collection Comic Bundle
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