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11 Feb

Kiosks Bring BookSense.com In-Store

Rather than hope customers will use and/or buy from their Web sites when they can't get to the bookstore, some booksellers have decided to bring their BookSense.com Web sites to customers by creating Web kiosks in their stores. Booksellers who spoke to BTW about their kiosks have found the axiom made famous in W.P. Kinsella's Shoeless Joe on target: Build it, and they will come.

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11 Feb

Amazon.com Begins to Collect Sales Tax in Kansas

Last week, Amazon.com announced that it would begin to comply with Kansas' new streamlined sales tax law, which requires retailers with remote sales that have an affiliated company in the state to collect sales and use tax. Amazon, which has an automated distribution center in Coffeyville, Kansas, will begin collecting Kansas state sales tax starting April 1.

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10 Feb

ABA Book Buyer's Handbook Update -- 2/10/04

Below is an outline of the most recent changes to the data in the ABA Book Buyer's Handbook online at handbook.bookweb.org.

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05 Feb

The Four-Eyed Frog Sees Illustrious Future

"As a youngster I knew I wanted to own a small retail store in a small community near the ocean," said brand-new bookseller Joel Crockett. By his teens he refined his business plan to include a bookstore.

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