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04 Sep

Alaska Booksellers Named State's Small Business Persons of the Year

This past spring, Julie Drake and Steve Lloyd, co-owners of Title Wave Books in Anchorage, Alaska, were named Alaska's Small Business Persons of the Year for 2003 by the U.S. Small Business Administration. Four other Alaska businesses were vying for the award, according to the SBA.

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04 Sep

Growing Number of Consumers Are Giving Gift Cards Instead of Books, Study Shows

More and more gift buyers are avoiding the decision-making process of book purchasing for the more convenient purchase of a bookstore gift card/certificate, according to recent research conducted by Ipsos BookTrends. If the gift certificate/card growth rate continues through 2005, and total consumer dollars continue to be relatively flat, "it is a good assumption that gift certificates/cards could account for 5 percent of consumer dollars or around $700 million," noted Michael Hoynes, ABA marketing officer.

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04 Sep

Esme Raji Codell Expounds on Potato Pedagogy and the Power of Books

Esme Raji Codell, and yes, she was named for Salinger's Esme -- came to national attention with her first book, Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Year (Algonquin). The insightful, funny, unbelievably energetic Codell began her first year of teaching in an underachieving, charmless public school in a very poor section of Chicago. She chronicled the experience and gave readers a glimpse of what a gifted teacher can do even in the humblest environments.

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04 Sep

The Wit, Satire, and Humor Book Sense Bestseller List

Based on four weeks of sales ended August 31, 2003, at 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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