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25 Sep

Online Tax e-Fairness Bill Introduced in the House

On Thursday, September 25, Representatives Ernest Istook (R-OK) and William Delahunt (D-MA) introduced legislation into the U.S. House of Representatives that would allow states to simplify sales tax, with equal tax treatment between local merchants and remote sellers. It is also expected that Senators Byron Dorgan (D-ND) and Michael Enzi (R-WY) will introduce a similar bill into the Senate next week.

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24 Sep

New Study Indicates Online Pricing Significantly Affects Sales

An economics study regarding online price elasticity released last spring seems to bear out what many Internet experts have thought all along regarding book pricing: the higher the price, the fewer the sales.

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24 Sep

Correction: July Bookstore Sales Better Than Previously Reported

Last week's BTW article on July retail sales for bookstores was based on outdated information. The Bureau of the Census periodically updates retail sales data, and its most recent revision of 2002 retail sales figures occurred on September 12, 2003. As a result, BTW is issuing this updated report on July bookstore sales.

July sales of $1,130 million were 6.7 percent ahead of last July's $1,059 million.

Overall retail sales of $325 billion for July 2003 were 6.2 percent ahead of the $306 billion in July of the previous year.

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24 Sep

Joint Committee Meets to Plan BEA Children's Bookselling Program

The Children's Booksellers and Publishers Committee met on Monday, September 15, in New York City, to develop events for BookExpo America 2004, to be held from June 2 - 6 in Chicago. At the meeting, the group, a joint committee of ABA, the Association of Booksellers for Children, and the Children's Book Council, considered speakers for the show's Friday morning Children's Book and Author Breakfast and also planned the Thursday afternoon children's booksellers' educational sessions.

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