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17 Feb

A Bookstore Odyssey: Days 4 and 5

By Len Vlahos

On Monday, February 9, ABA Communications Manager Kristen Gilligan and BookSense.com Director Len Vlahos set out on a weeklong tour of East Coast bookstores. Here's a report on their final two days on the road. To read about the first three days of their journey, click here.

Day 4 -- February 12
Triad to Research Triangle

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17 Feb

Paul Auster: From Poetry to Novels With a Side Trip Out to Sea

Paul Auster was 15 years old when he found the book that made him decide to become a writer.

"I was a sophomore in high school," said Auster (born in Newark, New Jersey, and living now in Brooklyn), "when I read Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. And I was so overwhelmed by the book, I said to myself: 'If this is what a novel can be -- then I want to do it, too.'"

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17 Feb

Speaking of Audio: The Freedom of Choice

By Robin Whitten

What is the right mix of cassette and CD audiobooks?

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13 Feb

2003 Bookstore Sales End on Positive Note

Bookstore sales in December 2003 resumed the upward trend of the second half of the year -- a trend interrupted only in November. Preliminary December sales of $2,036 million were 1.5 percent higher than the $2,005 million figure for December 2002.

While December’s increase was modest, it did ensure that the year 2003 ended up 2.4 percent better than the previous year.

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