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23 Jul

Succession Planning II Explores Methods of Valuing a Bookstore

 

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22 Jul

Got Literacy? Study Reveals the Most Literate American Cities

This month, the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater (UWW) released a new study, "America's Most Literate Cities," which provides a literacy ranking of America's 64 largest cities. Topping the list was Minneapolis, with Seattle, Denver, Atlanta, and San Francisco rounding out the top five.

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21 Jul

ABFFE Calls on Booksellers: Contact Your House Rep Now!

The American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE) is urging members of the book and library communities to contact their congressional representatives this week in support of an amendment that cuts off Justice Department funding for searches of bookstore and library records under Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act. Rep. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) will offer the measure as an amendment to the Commerce, Justice, State, and Judiciary Appropriations Bill of 2004. The bill, which has no number yet, is co-sponsored by Rep. John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and C.L.

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18 Jul

Correction

In the July/August Book Sense 76, the nominating bookseller for The Rice Mother by Rani Manicka (Viking, $24.95, 0670031925) was incorrectly identified. The bookseller, from The Country Bookshop, Southern Pines, North Carolina, was Katrina Denza.

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