Ann Patchett
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Beginning June 21, stores participating in Scholastic Book Fair's Retailer Coupon Program can accept customer certificates in exchange for copies of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
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The publishing series that took the sting out of being called a "dummy" is offering independent booksellers a special publication to help them "work smarter, not harder." Beginning at BookExpo America, Wiley Publishing is offering booksellers free copies of a special BEA edition of Bookselling For Dummies.
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Here is the latest Children's Book Sense 76 Top Ten.
Once again, many, many thanks for all the nominations. The contributions from a wonderfully wide range of booksellers have created a rich and diverse list.
The full Children's Book Sense 76 -- with booksellers' quotes -- will be in next week's Bookselling This Week.
Looking ahead, the deadline for the July/August Book Sense 76 is May 23 -- send in those nominations! There can never be too many!
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Based on sales reports from nearly 400 independent bookstores across the U.S. for the four weeks ending May 11, 2003.
From golf to the Iditarod to hiking, and, of course, baseball -- sports, exercise, and physical recreation are winning subjects with book buyers.
To reprint this list, please contact Kristen Gilligan at [email protected]. Thanks to all loyal reporters!
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Lisa Tucker will always remember the time she and her younger sister were sitting around listening to an Aerosmith song several years ago. No matter how hard she tried, Tucker couldn't get that tune out of her head, especially because of its lyrics. "The song was haunting me, so I wondered 'what does it really mean to me?'"
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On Wednesday, May 7, John Updike chose Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by Z.Z. Packer (Riverhead) as the 11th selection to be read by the "Today Book Club."
Locales in this debut collection of eight stories, featuring mostly young African Americans, include a Girl Scout camp, the Million Man March on Washington, Japan, and, of course, elsewhere.
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Book lovers are not always film lovers, nor are film lovers always book lovers. But what of a film about the love of books -- in particular, the love of one special book
. This is where book people and film people must overlap. Filmmaker Mark Moskowitz turned his quest for information about a long-forgotten novel, purchased in his college days, into a paean to authors, books, and those who love them.
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Where people purchase the hundreds of thousands of copies of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix on June 21 may ultimately be more memorable than the book itself. Based on correspondence from independent booksellers around the country, customers should be prepared for anything at midnight -- documented bookstore ghosts, abandoned owl adoptions, homemade chocolate frogs, slug canapés, and vault tours of an actual bank.
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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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