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16 Jul

Barbara's Bookstores Sell Books Where None Have Gone Before

Barbara's Bookstores, the 40-year-old, Chicago-based chain of nine independents, will soon open its 10th store. The new store will be inside the nation's second-largest department store, the Marshall Field's on State Street in downtown Chicago. An 11th store, on the Chicago campus of the University of Illinois, is not far behind.

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16 Jul

ABFFE Gets on a Soap Box

On Wednesday, July 16, six national free expression groups, led by the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE), demanded that the All-American Soap Box Derby cease efforts to censor a new history of the Derby, Champions, Cheaters, and Childhood Dreams: Memories of the All-American Soap Box Derby, by Melanie Payne (University of Akron Press).

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11 Jul

Good Morning America Announces 12th Read This! Pick

On Thursday, July 10, Good Morning America announced that A Vineyard Killing (Scribner) by Philip R. Craig was the latest book chosen by the show's "Read This!" book club. The mystery yarn follows retired policeman and part-time private detective J.W. Jackson's investigation of the attempted murder of a real-estate tycoon who had been trying to pressure locals into selling their island homes for much less than they are worth.

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10 Jul

An Independent Alliance Grows in Corvallis

In 2001, after hearing that a Borders Books & Music would be moving to Corvallis, Oregon, Jack Wolcott, co-owner of Grass Roots Books & Music, and Bob Baird, owner of The Book Bin, asked the founders of the Boulder Independent Business Alliance (BIBA), Jeff Milchen and Jennifer Rockne (more recently, the founders of the American Independent Business Alliance) to host a Town Hall Meeting regarding the impact of local businesses versus chains.

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