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24 Jul

BookSense.com On the Move...

Here BookSense.com Director Len Vlahos updates booksellers on the latest improvements and enhancements to BookSense.com.

Greetings! There's a lot of BookSense.com news in this edition of On the Move....

As the direct result of requests from booksellers, we've made a number of enhancements to BookSense.com -- some of which are pretty significant.

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24 Jul

Architectural Design Plan for St. Mark's Bookshop

Brian Connolly Principal, Zivkovic Associates Architects P.C., 511 West 25th Street, Suite # 201, New York, NY 10001; Phone (212) 807-8577; Fax (212) 807-9575

PROJECT: ST. MARK'S BOOKSHOP LOCATION: EAST VILLAGE NEW YORK CITY

ARCHITECT: ZIVKOVIC ASSOCIATES ARCHITECTS S.D. Don Zivkovic, Brian J. Connolly (Project Designers)

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

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24 Jul

St. Mark's Bookshop -- An Award-Winning Environment for Discriminating Readers

When Bob Contant and five partners opened the St. Mark's Bookshop in Manhattan's East Village in 1977, the neighborhood was home to counterculture businesses such as the Intergalactic Trading Post -- a drug-related head shop, the Electric Circus disco, and residents such as Abbie Hoffman. "It was a boom time for the East Village," Contant told BTW. "St. Mark's Place was the center of the hippie universe."

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24 Jul

Potter Display Contest Deadline Next Week

Booksellers participating in the Book Sense Make Some Magic With Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix sweepstakes display contest must send photos by Thursday, July 31, to be eligible to win a $2,000 credit from Scholastic, Inc.

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