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04 Apr

Spotlight on ABA Board Candidate Steve Bercu

This week, American Booksellers Association member bookstores are receiving, via the U.S. Postal Service, a mailing including a ballot to elect directors for three-year terms on the ABA Board. The ballot, which must be postmarked by Tuesday, May 1, and returned in the postage-paid envelope addressed to Marks Paneth & Shron LLP, features the names of three director candidates: Steve Bercu of BookPeople in Austin, Texas; Tom Campbell of The Regulator Bookshop in Durham, North Carolina; and Cathy Langer of Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver.

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04 Apr

Scam Warning: No Shortcut

Booksellers ranging from Washington State to New Hampshire and points south are reporting a scam involving the title The Shortcut: 20 Stories to Get You From Here to There, edited by Danna Curran (Author Identity Press). A number of booksellers have reported receiving a special order for two copies of the print-on-demand title from someone calling himself Mike Evers. When the books come in, they soon discover that the credit card number used to order the books is a bad account and the phone number is disconnected.

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03 Apr

A Spirited Defense of First Amendment Rights

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03 Apr

The Elements of Email: Two Top Editors Highlight the Write Stuff

David Shipley and Will Schwalbe were having lunch one afternoon at the Oyster Bar in New York City's Grand Central Station, and both had experienced the kind of morning that was just plain awful.

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