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30 May

Live from BEA -- Day Two

Book Sense Book of the Year Awards Announced at ABA Celebration of Bookselling


Ann Patchett

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29 May

Live From BEA -- Day One

On Thursday, May 29, over 300 independent booksellers from around the U.S. converged in Los Angeles for the ABA Education Day, which included ABA's first annual "What Are You Reading Lunch." The day's numerous sessions were packed with prospective, novice, and veteran booksellers alike, each looking to enhance their bookselling skills. According to comments from a number of booksellers, the programming did not disappoint.

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22 May

Coliseum Books Readies to Face Lions, Fierce Competition, and Poor Economy

At the end of May, just around the corner from the literary stone lions affront the massive New York Public Library on West 42nd Street in Manhattan, will stand an incarnation of the late, and much lamented, Coliseum Books. On January 31, 2002, when the 27-year-old Coliseum Books at 57th Street and Broadway closed, New York City lost one of its pre-eminent bookstores. The original Coliseum Books boasted about 100,000 titles in 11,500 square feet of selling space, no comfortable places to sit, and no café.

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