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06 Dec

Main Street Fights Chain Street

By Carolyn Said, San Francisco Chronicle Staff Writer

Last year, Neal Sofman had a eureka moment in response to a wonky economic analysis of locally owned stores compared with chain retailers.

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06 Dec

BTW News Briefs

Story Prize Finalists Announced

On December 6, the Story Prize, an annual award for books of short fiction, announced the finalists for this year's prize: Jim Harrison (The Summer He Didn't Die, Atlantic Monthly Press); Maureen F. McHugh (Mothers & Other Monsters, Small Beer Press); and Patrick O'Keeffe (The Hill Road, Viking).

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06 Dec

Valentine's Nominations Needed

This Friday, December 9, is the deadline for the Book Sense 2006 Valentine's Day Top Ten. This annual list is compiled by Book Sense in conjunction with the Association of American Publishers' (AAP) Get Caught Reading initiative, and it is part of a series of seasonal Top Ten lists that Book Sense and AAP produce each year based on the nominations of independent booksellers nationwide.

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01 Dec

The January 2006 Book Sense Picks and Notables Preview

Here is the full listing of the January Book Sense Picks, with booksellers' comments, as well as a preview of the January Book Sense Notables. Independent booksellers in the Book Sense program will be receiving their January Picks fliers in the December Red Box. (The flier includes jacket images, bibliographic information, and bookseller quotes.)

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