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20 Dec

Hotel ABA 2007 Offers an Extraordinary Networking Opportunity

Owners and staff of ABA member bookstores who would like to be part of the community of independent booksellers staying at Hotel ABA - Brooklyn at BookExpo America (BEA) 2007 should make their reservations as soon as possible via ABA's trade website, BookWeb.org.

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20 Dec

There Is a Bookstore in Nantucket...

Nantucket Bookworks occupies a century-old, 1,500 square-foot building in the picturesque downtown shopping district of Massachusetts' 50-square-mile Nantucket Island. Founded in 1972, the store was purchased in 2000 by Wendy Hudson, a five-year employee of the general bookstore.

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20 Dec

Reader Privacy Soon Restored? CRP Lauds Leahy Vow to 'Repair' Civil Liberties

On December 19, the sponsors of the Campaign for Reader Privacy (CRP) -- the American Booksellers Association, the American Library Association, the Association of American Publishers, and PEN American Center -- lauded Sen. Patrick Leahy's (D-VT) call for the "restoration, repair, and renewal" of civil liberties in the U.S., including new legislation to repair the "erosion of privacy."

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19 Dec

Memorial Service for Rusty Drugan Set for January 22

The New England Independent Booksellers Association (NEIBA) will hold a memorial service for Rusty Drugan on Monday, January 22, from 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. at the Westford Regency Inn and Conference Center in Westford, Massachusetts. The service will be followed by a reception.

Drugan, who was NEIBA's executive director from 1992 until his resignation in August, died on Thursday, December 7, at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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