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26 Feb

Bookseller Due Thanks for Resisting Patriot Act Excesses

Since the official launch of the Campaign for Reader Privacy (www.readerprivacy.com) on Tuesday, February 17, a number of local and national news organizations have reported on the grassroots effort to gather more than one million signatures on a petition calling for the restoration of safeguards for the privacy of bookstore and library records that were eliminated by Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act. The following is an editorial that appeared in New Hampshire's Portsmouth Herald on February 24, 2004.

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26 Feb

Book Sense and Free Expression Initiatives Take Center Stage at D.C. Forum

On Wednesday, February 25, in conjunction with the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association (NAIBA), ABA held a Bookseller Forum in the The Lansburgh Building, next door to Olsson's Books & Records in downtown Washington, D.C. Among the key topics of the forum were the Book Sense Gift Card Program, the Book Sense 76, and the Campaign for Reader Privacy (CRP). The forum was led by ABA CEO Avin Mark Domnitz and COO Oren Teicher, with ABA Vice President Mitchell Kaplan of Books & Books in Coral Gables and Miami Beach.

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25 Feb

The Book Sense Literature of the American West Bestseller List

Based on four weeks of sales ended February 22, 2004, in hundreds of independent bookstores across the U.S.

Past Category Bestseller lists are available at www.bookweb.org/read/5677.

Attention Media: Please contact Kristen Gilligan at [email protected] for reprint guidelines for your newspaper or magazine.

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25 Feb

CDS Books to Publish First Literary Novel

Client Distribution Services (CDS), best known as a book distributor, is now looking to make a name for itself in the field of book publishing. One-year-old CDS Books will be publishing A Son Called Gabriel by Northern Irish author Damian McNicholl in June.

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