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14 Dec

Book Sense Unveils 2006 Children's Series Bestsellers

To complement the Book Sense 2006 Bestsellers -- a special listing of the year's top-selling books in Hardcover Fiction and Nonfiction, Paperback Fiction and Nonfiction, and Children's Fiction and Illustrated -- Book Sense has created the Book Sense 2006 Children's Series Bestsellers.

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14 Dec

Obituary: Wayne A. 'Rusty' Drugan

Wayne A. "Rusty" Drugan, the executive director of the New England Independent Booksellers Association from 1992 until his resignation in August due to illness, died on Thursday, December 7, 2006, at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was 59.

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14 Dec

ISBN-13 to Affect Publishers' Direct Electronic Ordering Options

At the end of November, Pubnet unveiled Instant Response, a program that gives booksellers immediate acknowledgement for purchase orders placed with participating publishers. Instant Response was also introduced as an alternative to direct electronic order (DEO) dial-up systems, which some publishers will be phasing out after the introduction of ISBN-13 in January 2007.

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13 Dec

Pass Christian Books Celebrates Reopening

Last weekend, Pass Christian Books of Pass Christian, Mississippi, reopened in a new location about five miles north of the original store destroyed in September 2005 by Hurricane Katrina. Steven B.

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