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13 Dec

The Book Sense "Beach Book" (Mass Market Binding) Bestseller List

For the eight-week period ending December 11, 2005, and based on reporting by hundreds of independent bookstores with Book Sense nationwide.

Past Category Bestseller lists are available at www.bookweb.org/read/5677.

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12 Dec

Making Booksellers TitleSmart

Former bookseller Hank Jones developed TitleSmart, www.titlesmart.com, an informational web tool for booksellers and librarians, to provide a single wide-ranging source for easy access to information about major book reviews and book publicity. "From talking with fellow booksellers and from my own experience, I knew there was a search tool needed that could help my store and other stores to more efficiently track down titles for customers," said Jones.

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12 Dec

Bookstore Tourism Goes Nonprofit in January

Bookstore Tourism, a grassroots effort to promote and support independent bookstores by marketing them as tourist destinations, has continued to grow into a nationwide campaign. And now its architect, Larry Portzline, a Harrisburg-based writer for the Pennsylvania State Senate, is creating a nonprofit organization to promote the concept: the National Council on Bookstore Tourism (NCBT).

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12 Dec

Correction

The Winter 2005/2006 Book Sense Children's Picks list incorrectly attributed the bookstore in the quote recommending The Breezes of Inspire by Nick Ruth. It should have noted that Bob Spear's store is The Book Barn in Leavenworth, Kansas. Book Sense apologizes for the error.

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