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21 Dec

Holiday Bestseller Reporting Hours

Due to the Christmas and New Year holidays, bestseller reporting hours will be extended for 24 hours for the next two Book Sense Bestseller Lists. To accommodate the extended reporting hours, the Book Sense Bestseller List will be e-mailed to booksellers and posted to BookWeb on Wednesday.

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21 Dec

Tattered Cover Launches Authors on Tour Podcast

This week, Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver, Colorado, in partnership with BurstMarketing, launched a free, weekly podcast show, Authors on Tour -- Live, on the web at www.authorsontourlive.com. The podcasts feature recently published authors reading from and discussing their books at events at one of Tattered Cover's three locations. Each show is approximately 30 to 45 minutes.

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21 Dec

A Heartfelt Thanks

In this, perhaps the most crucial week in trade bookselling, the Book Sense team at ABA sends out one very brief message to booksellers: Thank You.

Many thanks for all that you have done for Book Sense this year, from reporting to the Book Sense Bestseller List, to nominating for the Picks lists, to creating all of the great displays, and so much more.

The participation of so many knowledgeable and enthusiastic booksellers has helped bring a wide range of wonderful writing in fiction and nonfiction to readers coast to coast, and has helped sell more books.

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21 Dec

BTW News Briefs

Enzi Introduces Sales Tax Fairness and Simplification Act

On Tuesday, December 20, Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY) introduced in the Senate the Sales Tax Fairness and Simplification Act (S. 2152), legislation that seeks to "level the playing field for all in-store, catalog, and online retailers so each has the same sales tax responsibilities [and to] help states collect more revenue from the sales."

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