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20 Sep

Creekside Books Fills Bookstore Void in New York's Finger Lakes

Creekside Books & Coffee, a 6,500-square-foot coffeehouse and bookstore, is owned by Erika Davis in the lovely, but tough to pronounce, village of Skaneateles, New York. "Try to pronounce it as 'skinny atlas,'" Davis advises the uninitiated. The town is a scenic place on the north side of the Finger Lakes, 25 miles outside Syracuse, with a population of 7,000.

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19 Sep

St. Paul Home to Next Week's MBA Fall Trade Show

American Booksellers Association staff, including ABA CEO Avin Mark Domnitz, COO Oren Teicher, and Len Vlahos, Director of BookSense.com and of ABA's Education Program, will be attending next week's 2006 Midwest Booksellers Association (MBA) Fall Trade Show to present educational programming, to gather member input regarding ABA's next Strategic Plan, and more.

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18 Sep

July Bookstore Sales Disappointing

Bookstore sales in July marked a disappointing downward turn after two months of encouraging gains, according to estimates released by the Bureau of the Census. Sales of $1,077 million for July 2006 were 9.3 percent off sales for the same month a year ago. As a result, year-to-date sales for 2006 are now down slightly from 2005.

Overall Retail Sales of $369 billion for July 2006 came in 4.2 percent over the $354 billion of July 2005.

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14 Sep

The 2006 Book Sense Halloween Top Ten

This week Book Sense announces the 2006 Halloween Top Ten. The list is produced in conjunction with the Association of American Publishers' Get Caught Reading initiative and is based on the nominations of independent booksellers nationwide.

Booksellers in the Book Sense program will be receiving the Halloween Top Ten in the September Red Box.

For a downloadable PDF file of the Halloween 2006 Top Ten, click here.

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