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27 Oct

New Offers Seek to Increase ABA Membership

 The American Booksellers Association has created two new membership offers -- one for non-member booksellers in the U.S. and the other for members of the Canadian Booksellers Association who would also like to hold membership in ABA.

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27 Oct

Feingold and Sununu Urge Conferees to Support Senate Patriot Act Bill

On Wednesday, Senators Russ Feingold (D-WI) and John E. Sununu (R-NH) held a press conference to emphasize their support for the Senate version of the USA Patriot Act reauthorization bill, which passed the Senate by unanimous consent in July. In the coming days, Senate and House conferees will be meeting to reconcile the very different House and Senate versions of the USA Patriot Act reauthorization bills.

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27 Oct

Bookseller Relief Effort Moves to Phase Two

The second phase of the Bookseller Relief Fund (BRF) effort, established by the American Booksellers Association in response to the devastation wrought by this season's hurricanes, is now underway. Under Phase Two, a subcommittee of the Bookseller Relief Fund Board will consider more expansive requests for assistance from the owners of bookstores within federally declared disaster areas.

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27 Oct

BTW Launches New Media Guide Feature

Today, Bookselling This Week debuts a new feature to the Media Guide. "On Tour" highlights information provided by Book Sense Publisher Partners about current Book Sense Picks authors on tour to independent bookstores and other venues.

Created to help Publisher Partners maximize their marketing efforts for titles on current Picks lists, "On Tour" listings are free of charge.

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