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05 Jun

House Coalition Asks House Judiciary Committee for a Hearing on H.R. 1157

Ingram Distribution Joins Group of Over 30 Book-Related Organizations Supporting H.R. 1157

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05 Jun

BookExpo America Releases Attendance Figures

BookExpo America recently released attendance figures from this year's BEA, held May 28 - June 1 in Los Angeles. And, despite concerns that this year's show attendance might suffer due to the war in Iraq and the nation's ongoing economic woes, attendance figures were strong.

The total figure for all industry professionals attending BEA 2003 in Los Angeles was 27,143. The total number of book buyers attending BEA in '03 was 6,684.

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05 Jun

ABA Members Get an Update and Share Views at BEA

Once again, ABA's Town Hall and Annual Membership meetings provided ABA members an opportunity to offer comments and share feedback as well as get an update on the association's activities during the past year.

ABA Town Hall Meeting

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05 Jun

BEA Trade Floor Offers a Wealth of Intriguing Titles

"Stacks of books were piled high all over" reads a passage from the opening chapter of a new work by German author Cornelia Funke -- a passage that might almost describe the literature-laden aisles of the Los Angeles Convention Center last week, during the 2003 BookExpo America. "Small piles of books, tall piles of books, books thick and thin, books old and new. They welcomed ... with invitingly opened pages; they kept boredom at bay ... and sometimes you fell over them."

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