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28 Jun

BTW News Briefs

Government Drops Connecticut Library Case

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27 Jun

Books Plus: Life in the Sandy Lane

Don Shaw, and his wife, Margo, the owners of Books Plus in Fernandina Beach, relocated to the Amelia Island community on the northeastern coast of Florida from the Boston area 10 years ago. The area annually welcomes thousands of retirees and others embracing a more relaxed lifestyle and year-round sunshine; however, the Shaws didn't want to slow down.

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26 Jun

ISBN-13 Update: Erroneous Bar Codes

The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) recently announced that it had received several reports of books carrying a Bookland EAN bar code with an erroneous number encoded in the bar code and displayed below the bar code itself. "The erroneous number begins with '979', an invalid prefix for today's Bookland EAN and an ISBN range not yet activated by International or National ISBN Agencies," said the BISG statement. "The erroneous number is unlikely to be recognized by the computer systems of many booksellers who are not yet prepared for ISBN-13.

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22 Jun

The Regulator Is on a Roll

As suburban sprawl threatens to overcome more and more communities, independent booksellers are facing battles on many fronts, from fighting proposed chain store developments in their communities to competing with online giants. It is a market landscape that is very familiar to Tom Campbell of Durham, North Carolina's The Regulator Bookshop.

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