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06 Mar

Do You Want to Be in Pictures?

Still Time to Send Photos for May 5 Book Sense Insert in The New Yorker

The May 5 issue of The New Yorker, on sale April 28, will include a special insert highlighting titles selected by independent booksellers for the May/June Book Sense 76. Books that make great gifts for Mother's Day, Father's Day, and graduation will be featured. To complement the story, the magazine is seeking photographs of bookstores with Book Sense. All Book Sense stores are encouraged to send photographs of their stores, especially good exterior shots.

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06 Mar

S'No Joke -- Century-Old Toy Fair Confronts the Elements

Barbie waited huddled by the Easy Bake Oven and even the Big Wheels needed four-wheel-drive when New York City was blanketed with close to two feet of snow in the middle of the 100th annual American International Toy Fair, held at the Jacob Javits Convention Center on the city's West Side from February 16 - 19. Retailers who attended on Sunday, the opening day of the show floor, and left promptly in the afternoon, were in luck. Others, who planned on visiting Monday or Tuesday, were faced with few, if any, transportation options.

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06 Mar

Supreme Court Hears Arguments in CIPA Case

The American Library Association's (ALA) and American Civil Liberties Union's (ACLU) legal challenge of a federal library filtering law continues.

On March 5, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments regarding the government's appeal of a lower court's ruling last May that the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) is unconstitutional. CIPA would require public libraries seeking government subsidies to install filtering software to block materials considered obscene, child pornography, or "harmful to minors."

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06 Mar

Rights and the New Reality: Book Snoopers' Open Door

In the week that Congressmen Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Ron Paul (R-TX) introduced federal legislation to remove some of the threats to civil liberties in the USA Patriot Act, the Los Angeles Times editorial page comes out in support of the proposed legislation, calling for a proper balance between freedom and security.

Los Angeles Times Editorial -- March 2, 2003

Read a good book lately? Federal agents might want to know.

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