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12 Oct

Ninth Street Book Store to Host Common Cause SAFE Act Hearing

On Thursday, October 21, Common Cause of Delaware, a nonprofit citizens lobbying organization dedicated to government reform and accountability, will hold a citizen's public meeting on the Safety and Freedom Ensured Act (S. 1709, SAFE Act) at Ninth Street Book Store in Wilmington, Delaware. The SAFE Act looks to amend provisions of the USA Patriot Act, including Section 215, which gives law enforcement officials broad authority to demand that libraries or bookstores turn over books, records, papers, and documents.

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12 Oct

Reader Privacy Concerns Overblown Says Tampa Trib -- Not So Say Booksellers

On Tuesday, October 5, Florida's Tampa Tribune published an editorial entitled "The Patriot Act's License to Snoop Causes Unjustified Anxiety " that began by stating, "Fears that the Patriot Act allows government agents to spy on everyone's library records are wildly overblown. All the three-year-old law does is open a variety of semiprivate files to scrutiny by agents conducting espionage investigations.

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12 Oct

Creating a Guerrilla Marketing Calendar

A marketing calendar is an integral part of a successful marketing plan, and a savvy retailer won't wait until after the holidays to create a marketing calendar for the new year. Pre-holiday rush is a good time to start formulating new plans as well as to assess which of the past year's marketing efforts worked and bear repeating.

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07 Oct

Michigan Booksellers Welcome Display Law Clarification

On Tuesday, October 5, Michigan booksellers announced that they welcomed a judge's legal decision that clarified a new state law regulating the display of material that is "harmful to minors."

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07 Oct

Steal This DVD: Turning a Bookstore Into a Media Center

Over the past decade, as the bookstore market has become increasingly competitive, many independent bookstores began to delve into sidelines in an effort to broaden their stores' appeal and to enhance their bottom line. For many booksellers, that meant bringing in CDs and, more recently, DVDs. BTW recently spoke to a number of booksellers whose stores carry CDs, DVDs, or both, and many noted that they decided to carry these products because the categories seemed to be a natural extension of the store's inventory.

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07 Oct

BTW News Briefs


Google Launches Online Book Search Biz

On Wednesday, October 6, Google announced the launch of a new search technology designed to help publishers sell books online, as reported by Reuters. The company's founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, plan to hold a press conference on Thursday, October 7, at the Frankfurt Book Fair, which Reuters described as "an important showcase if the Internet search engine is to recruit the heavyweights of the book publishing industry."

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07 Oct

Taking Care of Business at NCIBA Show

The 2004 Northern California Independent Booksellers Association (NCIBA) trade show was held at the Oakland Convention Center/City Center Marriott in Oakland, California, from October 1 - 3. Hut Landon, executive director of NCIBA, told BTW that attendance was slightly up from last year, though not as high as years past. "But the people who came really worked the show and used it well," said Landon.

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07 Oct

UMBA Show Proves to Be an Inspiring Experience

"Total attendance at this year's Upper Midwest Booksellers Association (UMBA) fall trade show, which was held from Friday, October 1, to Sunday, October 3, at the RiverCentre in St. Paul, Minnesota, was a bit lower than last year, said UMBA Executive Director Susan Walker, due in part to the closing of St. Paul's Ruminator Books and a change in the admissions policy, which affected the number of "peripheral people" in attendance.

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07 Oct

All Aboard for a Polar Express Prize Pack

The November 10 opening of Warner Brothers' animated adaptation of Chris Van Allsburg's classic Christmas tale, The Polar Express (Houghton Mifflin), starring Tom Hanks, is just over a month away.

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30 Sep

Reader Privacy Petitions Presented to Congress

Some of the thousands of petitions collected by ABA-member booksellers.

On Wednesday, September 29, the Campaign for Reader Privacy (CRP) petition drive culminated with a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., as representatives of the four sponsor

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30 Sep

NCIBA and UMBA Trade Shows This Weekend

The Northern California Independent Booksellers Association (NCIBA) and Upper Midwest Booksellers Association (UMBA) fall trade shows will be held from Friday, October 1 - Sunday, October 3, in Oakland, California, and St. Paul, Minnesota, respectively.

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30 Sep

Shout Out: Let Us Know How You Fared

Bookselling This Week wants to know how you're doing! If your bookstore was hit by one of the recent hurricanes, BTW and your fellow booksellers are concerned about how you fared. Next week's BTW will feature a roundup of bookstore status reports in the aftermath of Charley, Frances, Ivan, and Jean. If you would like to share your story with us, please send an e-mail to [email protected].

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30 Sep

BTW News Briefs


Publishers and Authors File Suit Against Treasury Department

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