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18 May

To Catch a Thief: What Some Booksellers Are Doing

David Bolduc, owner of Boulder Book Store in Boulder, Colorado, recently recalled when it was that he first became "very intense" about bookstore security. It was at the end of a year, the time to go through his store's financials and its physical inventory. "I would say to myself, 'What!? I'm working my butt off, yet I'm losing so many books to theft,'" Bolduc said during a recent interview with BTW. "And this would go on year after year.

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18 May

Pannell Award Honors Reading Reptile and BookPeople

This year's winners of the Lucile Micheels Pannell Award for Excellence in Children's Bookselling, announced by the Women's National Book Association (WNBA) on May 11, are Reading Reptile Books and Toys for Young Mammals in Kansas City, Missouri, in the children's specialty category, and BookPeople in Austin, Texas, in the general bookstore category.

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18 May

Books & Company: Woven into the Fabric of Oconomowoc

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12 May

Potter Plans Percolating Aplenty

The Harry Potter phenomenon continues as booksellers use their experience with the previous books in the series to prepare for the release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Scholastic) on July 16. Innovative ideas sprout up every day, like so many Abyssinian shrivelfigs.

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11 May

RiverRun: A Vital Part of the Cultural Life of Portsmouth

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04 May

BookPeople Celebrates Distinction as PW's Bookseller of the Year

Steve Bercu, co-owner of the self-proclaimed "Largest Bookstore in Texas -- A Community Bound by Books," received a call about a month ago informing him that BookPeople had been named Publishers Weekly Bookseller of the Year. The 24,000-square-foot store, originally named "Grok Books" when founded in 1970, has been an Austin landmark for decades and is a founding member of the city's influential Austin Independent Business Alliance (AIBA).

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02 May

Making Ends Meet: New Jersey Booksellers Promote, Partner, and Publish

When Pat and Walter Boyer bought Bookends in 2002, the Ridgewood, New Jersey, store was already on the map. The 21-year-old store's suburban location, less than 25 miles and under 40 minutes from mid-town Manhattan, is a convenient stop for major authors after a morning television appearance or an afternoon public radio interview.

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27 Apr

Celebrating 30 Years in A Room of One's Own


An early photo of the five founders:
(L to R) Moe Doe, Sandi Torkildson, Susan Ketchum, Gail Straw, seated Sally Stevens.


The first storefront.

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20 Apr

Alexander Book Co. Grows in Unexpected Directions

When Michael Stuppin moved back to his hometown of San Francisco to open Alexander Book Co. with his sister, Bonnie Stuppin, they wanted to provide the city with "something a little different," a general bookstore that filled under-met needs.

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12 Apr

Frank Hodge's Got Books? Let's Read

Frank Hodge's Hodge-Podge Books in Albany, New York, is a deceiving 240 square feet. By all accounts, it is a colossal bookstore: 23-years-old, with about $1 million in sales annually. Hodge-Podge and its owner have influenced thousands of teachers, parents, and students through renowned reading conferences, school appearances, and hundreds of face-to-face interactions with reluctant readers and their families and children's book illustrators and authors.

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06 Apr

Massachusetts' Booksmiths Continue Their Winning Ways

During its 44 years, Brookline Booksmith has received its share of accolades from loyal customers and from the industry at large. Offspring Wellesley Booksmith, which opened in 1999, has also won its share of recognition.

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30 Mar

Queen Anne Holds Court in Seattle


Queen Anne Books


Interior view


Interior showing lighting.

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30 Mar

Joseph-Beth Booksellers' Eighth Location Set to Open

The Joseph-Beth Group, owners of Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Kentucky, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, and of Davis-Kidd Booksellers in Tennessee, is just weeks away from opening its eighth bookstore, in Charlotte, North Carolina. The 18-year-old business, owned by Neil Van Uum, also ventured into new territory in November 2004, when its Pittsburgh store opened in a large mixed-use development project on the site of a former steel mill.

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29 Mar

White Birch Books Celebrates Owners -- Present and Past


White Birch Books


The Front Counter


General Fiction

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22 Mar

Kepler's: A Menlo Park Institution Turns 50

Founded in 1955, Kepler's of Menlo Park, California, was created with the goal of serving as a resource and gathering place for civil rights activists, artists, and writers.

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The American Booksellers Association, a national not-for-profit trade organization, works with booksellers and industry partners to ensure the success and profitability of independently owned book retailers, and to assist in expanding the community of the book.

Independent bookstores act as community anchors; they serve a unique role in promoting the open exchange of ideas, enriching the cultural life of communities, and creating economically vibrant neighborhoods.

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