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19 May

Book Nook of Ohio Named an Outstanding Business

Book Nook of Warren, Ohio, turned 35 this month, but it's hardly complacent in its middle age.

Owned by Clyde and Jean Bolinger, Book Nook is open 78 hours a week, 362 days a year, and the Bollingers are working hard to succeed, especially since a major chain opened a store five miles away, four years ago. The store, originally 1,900 square feet, has expanded twice to reach its current 7,000 square feet. Adapting and thriving, the store just received the Pendleton Business Award from the Greater Youngstown-Warren Area Chamber of Commerce.

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18 May

Community Seeks to Save Black Images Book Bazaar

In April, Emma Rodgers and Ashira Tosihwe, owners of Black Images Book Bazaar in Dallas, announced that the bookstore would close in 2005. However, now Black Images is the focus of a widespread effort to keep its doors open, and Rodgers and Tosihwe are reconsidering their plans. Rodgers had cited high rents and the economy as among the reasons the store would not renew its lease, but the pair intentionally announced their plans well in advance.

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17 May

Lonely Planet Bookstore Tour -- Day 5

On Saturday, May 8, Lonely Planet, the independent travel publisher, began a tour of independent bookstores that will end on Thursday, June 3, in Chicago at BookExpo America. BTW reporter Karen Schechner joined Lonely Planet staff on the whirlwind road trip in the eye-catching blue RV as it wended its way to stores in New York and New England.

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13 May

Lonely Planet Bookstore Tour -- Day 4

Tuesday, May 11, day four of the Lonely Planet Independent Bookstore Tour, started with an early visit to Susan Little's Jabberwocky Bookshop in Newburyport, Massachusetts. The 32-year-old bookstore is housed in an indoor market that was formerly a tannery mill near the Merrimack River. Bookseller Claire Eaton pointed out that Henry Walden Thoreau wrote A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers about his experience floating down the river, and, of course, the store always keeps copies of the Thoreau title in stock.

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12 May

New Hampshire Bookstore Seeks Highly Qualified New Owner

White Birch Books, a 12-year-old fixture in the resort community of North Conway, New Hampshire, has been put up for sale by the store's founder, Donna Urey. Urey told BTW that this decision has not been made impulsively nor as a result of any misfortune, personal or financial. "The store is happy and healthy and so am I," Urey said. "My husband and I have reached the point where we want to spend more time with our grandchild, and with the one on the way.

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11 May

Midnight Special Bookstore to Close Its Doors

Six months ago, Santa Monica's Midnight Special bookstore opened in a new location after leaving its former space on the Third Street Promenade in February 2003 due to high rent. The hope was that the lower rents in the new location, less than a half-mile from the Promenade, and generous donations from its loyal customers would help the store climb out of its financial hole, but it was not meant to be.

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06 May

WNBA Announces Children's Bookseller Award Winners

The Women's National Book Association (WNBA) has announced the winners of the 2004 Lucile Micheels Pannell Awards.

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05 May

Hamilton, Montana's Chapter One Turns 30

April Fool's Day is not the precise day that Chapter One Book Store in Hamilton, Montana, opened 30 years ago. But it is close enough, as well as being the wedding anniversary of co-owners Russ Lawrence and Jean Matthews and a great day for a celebration. On April 1, over 100 people attended an evening of festivities at the store, which included eating, drinking, Celtic music, dancing, and a book signing.

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05 May

Bookends Offers Ground-Breaking In-Store Self-Publishing System

In the time you may spend browsing in a bookstore for the right book, you can now publish one of your own. With advances in Print-On-Demand (POD) technology, the equipment is easy, fast, and small enough to operate in a 5,000-square-foot bookstore.

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29 Apr

North Carolina Bookstore Provides a Refuge From Town Life

McIntyre's Fine Books in Pittsboro, North Carolina, celebrated its 15th anniversary on April 20. Owner Keebe Fitch was, of course, appreciative of the long-running success, but celebrated quietly. "We sent out our newsletter announcing our birthday," she said. "But it's business as usual. We've got so much to do we didn't have time for a big sale," said Fitch, who began her career in bookselling after completing her MBA at the University of North Carolina (UNC).

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29 Apr

Blue Heron Sighted in Peninsula, Ohio

The scenic business district of Peninsula, Ohio, will boast an independent bookstore after many years, when Blue Heron Bookstore opens on Saturday, May 1. The store's 4,000-square-foot building, with wood-burning stove, spiral staircase, and courtyard, occupies space that in the past has housed an 1880s saloon, an automotive repair shop, and an antiques store. The village of Peninsula, population 602, 10 miles from Akron and 25 miles south of Cleveland, is also the home of the popular Cuyahoga Valley National Park.

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28 Apr

MoveOn Event Focuses on Community First

On Thursday, April 22, MoveOn, the grassroots civic action group, held a community forum at Women & Children First bookstore in Chicago as part of its unique spring book tour to promote MoveOn's 50 Ways to Love Your Country: How to Find Your Political Voice and Become a Catalyst for Change (Inner Ocean). More than 75 people attended the event, which was hosted by Women & Children co-owner Ann Christophersen, and MoveOn member and Newtopia magazine publisher Charles Shaw.

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28 Apr

L.A. Times Festival of Books: 'The Best Gift Ever Given L.A.'

For the ninth year in a row, tens of thousands of book-lovers from all over Southern California gathered at the UCLA campus this past weekend for the annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. With temperatures near 90 degrees on both Saturday and Sunday, an estimated total of 130,000 attended the two-day free event. Nearly 300 exhibitors occupied booths along campus quads; and over 400 authors (among them T.C.

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27 Apr

Women & Children First Owners Named Among Chicago's Most Powerful

The Chicago Sun-Times recently named Women & Children First bookstore owners Linda Bubon and Ann Christophersen as among "Chicago's 100 Most Powerful Women." The rankings focused on the 10 most powerful women in 10 categories: arts, business, politics, nonprofits, law, sports, philanthropy, healthcare, education, and media. The Sun-Times listed Bubon and Christophersen together as one of the Top 10 most powerful women in the Arts category.

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