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11 Apr

Spotlight on ABA Board Candidate Tom Campbell

By now, all ABA member bookstores should have received a mailing, via the U.S. Postal Service, that included a ballot to elect directors for three-year terms on the ABA Board. The ballot must be postmarked by Tuesday, May 1, and returned in the postage-paid envelope that was included in the mailing.

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11 Apr

Cody's Closes SF Store; Poisoned Pen Ends Phoenix 'Project'

Last week, two independent booksellers decided to close their bookstore branches, each owner citing a lack of sales due to varying reasons. Cody's Books announced that it would close its San Francisco bookstore on April 20 after falling well short of sales projections, and, on April 4, Barbara Peters decided to conclude her Poisoned Pen Central "project" after losing two weeks of sales when the city of Phoenix closed the building in which the bookstore was housed due to code violations.

Cody's Books, San Francisco

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11 Apr

Brooklyn Bookstore Outgrows Former Location

When booksellers Christine Freglette and Bina Valenzano first opened The BookMark Shoppe in Brooklyn, New York, they had no idea they'd be quite so ... popular. "We thought it would be calmer, but it's always hopping!" said Freglette. "There's no downtime, but I love it. We always have so many different groups of people -- a set of teenagers, a mother with three kids, an older woman. And it all just meshes."

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10 Apr

BEA 2007 All About 'Expanding Boundaries'

BookExpo America 2007 has designated "Expanding Boundaries" as this year's theme, Lance Fensterman, event director for BEA announced this week.

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