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21 May

Insurance Tips from LIBRIS: Coping With Rising Insurance Costs

By Richard Poling, LIBRIS Program Manager

Many bookstores today are facing substantial increases in property and casualty business insurance costs. While costs remained steady throughout the 1990s, in early 2000 this situation began a dramatic change.

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20 May

Obituary - Leonard Shatzkin, Book Publishing Guru and Author of In Cold Type

Leonard Shatzkin, author of In Cold Type, former book publishing executive, and consultant, died from congestive heart failure on Saturday, May 11, at the age of 82. Shatzkin's life was one of many remarkable achievements, throughout which his original, innovative, and oftentimes controversial ideas spurred many to think about the business of book publishing in new and better ways.

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16 May

Bookstore Sales Lag Behind Overall Retail

Preliminary March sales figures of $1,122 million were 3.7 percent off the $1,165 million of the previous March. While not a significant drop, it is disappointing when compared with bookstore performance over the last two years and when compared with overall retail recently.

Overall March retail sales for 2002 came in 2.8 percent over the $288 billion realized in March of 2001.

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16 May

Book Sense Welcomes the Humanics Publishing Group

Book Sense is pleased to welcome the Humanics Publishing Group as its newest Publisher Partner. Founded in 1976 by Gary Wilson, chairman, the company has three divisions including: Humanics Trade, Humanics Learning, and Humanics Psychological Test Corporation. Humanics is also the managing partner of the Limited Partnership of Humanics, publisher of children's fiction. All Humanics titles encourage growth of the human mind and spirit and, to continuously reach this goal, they recruit authors who are authorities in their fields.

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