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22 Mar

Booksellers School Offers Valuable Lessons

Next School in May at BookExpo America

Paz & Associates recently offered a weeklong, intensive education workshop for new booksellers on Amelia Island, near Jacksonville, Florida. "Opening a Bookstore: The Business Essentials" is considered an essential first, or second, step for those interested in buying, opening, or investing in a bookstore.

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22 Mar

BTW News Briefs

WNBA Announces Children's Bookseller Award Nominees

The Women's National Book Association recently announced the nominees for this year's Lucile Micheels Pannell Awards, which recognize retail bookstores that excel at creatively bringing books and children together and inspiring children's interest in books and reading.

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21 Mar

What's in a Name: Colson Whitehead on Apex Hides the Hurt

If it's true that the child who reads is father to the man who writes, one might well wonder: What sort of cutting-edge literary fare shaped the early sensibilities of novelist and MacArthur Fellowship-recipient Colson Whitehead, author of the April Book Sense Pick Apex Hides the Hurt (Doubleday)?

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21 Mar

Activist Bookseller Named California's Small-Business Champion of the Year

Alzada Knickerbocker, owner of the 19-year-old Avid Reader in Davis, California, has been named the state's Small-Business Champion of the Year for 2006 by the Leadership Council of the 35,000-member National Federation of Independent Business/California (NFIB).

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