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11 Mar

An Ode to Baseball Literature: Diamonds in the Rough

As opening day of the 2004 baseball season approaches, BTW Senior Editor David Grogan, an admitted baseball addict, who is joined by a surprising number of ABA staff members in his love of the sport, shares some of his favorite baseball titles.

Perhaps no other sport lends itself to the form of literature than does the game of baseball.

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11 Mar

Upper Midwest Booksellers Gather for a Lively Forum

The American Booksellers Association continued its 2004 Booksellers Forum schedule on Saturday, March 6, in the Minneapolis suburb of Bloomington, where ABA staff met with upper Midwest booksellers. The ABA Booksellers Forum, co-sponsored by the Upper Midwest Booksellers Association (UMBA), was held at the Comfort Inn-Airport.

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11 Mar

ABACUS - Year 2: Data Gathering Begins

Building on the success of last year's ABACUS study -- which fashioned a standard that independent booksellers have found extremely useful in gauging their financial performance and in identifying those areas that need to be addressed to move towards greater profitability -- ABA has begun collecting data from member booksellers for the 2004 study.

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11 Mar

AAP Report Posits a Future With More Direct-to-Consumer Sales

"It's 2004. Do you know where your book business is?" was the theme of a presentation by Kosmo Kalliarekos of the Parthenon Group to the 2004 Association of American Publishers (AAP) General Annual Meeting in February.

The report examined "two core dimensions" fueling the evolution of the publishing market -- proximity to the customer and use of content -- for the education, professional, and trade publishing segments.

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