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22 Feb

BTW News Briefs

President Bush Again Calls for AHPs

On February 21, in Chattanooga, Tennessee, President George Bush led a panel discussion on health care initiatives at the Chattanooga Convention Center, where he once again stressed the importance of Associated Health Plans in helping small businesses buy affordable health insurance.

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22 Feb

PGW Publisher-Clients Look Forward to Returning Focus to Books

Although last Friday's Delaware bankruptcy court decision approving the Perseus Books Group offer for Publishers Group West (PGW) answered the immediate concerns of many of the distributor's publisher-clients, it certainly is not the end of the story. Several small press publishers now under contract to Perseus recently spoke to BTW about the challenges of returning their focus to the task of publishing books while faced with a future that still holds some uncertainty.

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22 Feb

Established Bookstores, New Owners

The media frequently, and falsely, rings the death knell for all independent bookstores every time a store closes, while store openings enjoy far less coverage. Last year alone, 97 new independent bookstores opened, improving upon the previous year's 90 new stores. Equally under-reported, but just as important, are the stores that are changing hands instead of closing, often because a community member or former bookseller purchases the business.

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21 Feb

Alan Greenspan to Be BEA Keynote Speaker

Former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board Alan Greenspan will be the keynote speaker at this year's BookExpo America. Greenspan, whose memoir The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World will be published by Penguin in September, will be interviewed by his wife, Andrea Mitchell, chief foreign affairs correspondent for NBC News. The keynote event will be held at 11:00 a.m.

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