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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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12 Dec

Friend's Dream Will Live On

Bookseller Kathleen Caldwell pays tribute to Debi Echlin, owner of A Great Good Place for Books in Oakland, California, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association, who died in her sleep on Thanksgiving Day. In this column, which originally appeared in The Montclarion newspaper on December 9, Caldwell meaningfully says Debi Echlin was "the perfect combination of big sister, mentor, and best friend."

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12 Dec

Bookstore Sales Decline in October

Preliminary figures recently released by the Bureau of the Census, Current Retail Trade Branch indicate that October bookstore sales were 5.1 percent below those for the same period in 2004, marking the second worst decline of the year so far. Year-to-date sales at bookstores are down 2.5 percent.

In contrast, overall retail sales continued an upward trend. Overall retail sales of $345 billion for October 2005 were 5.8 percent ahead of the $326 billion reported in October 2004.

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