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25 Oct

Page & Palette Owner Seeks to Ensure Viability of Main Street

Fairhope, Alabama, a city of approximately 12,000 residents, which prides itself on "the storybook charm of its shops and flowers," is in the midst of a battle to keep big box retailers, including Wal-Mart, out of its surrounding area. Among the group of concerned citizens who organized as "A Fair Hope of Success" to ensure the continued viability of Fairhope's downtown businesses is bookseller Karin Wilson of Fairhope's Page & Palette bookstore.

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25 Oct

Rising From the Ashes -- Koen-Levy Book Wholesalers

On October 18, some two months after Koen Book Distributors ended operations, Levy Home Entertainment announced that it had acquired certain Koen assets and would be forming a new business called Koen-Levy Book Wholesalers, LLC. The new entity will be located in the former Koen buildings in Moorestown, New Jersey. Levy Home Entertainment is a book distributor that services retail chain accounts in the 48 continental states. Bob Koen, formerly of Koen Book Distributors, will be the general manager of the new wholesaler.

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24 Oct

A Bookseller's Trip to the Quills

By Carrie Sutherland of J.W. Beecroft Books & Coffee in Superior, Wisconsin

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20 Oct

Scam Warning

Booksellers posting to BookWeb's Idea Exchange have reported a fraudulent order scheme that appears to have been replicated in several different cities. The scam involves a person posing as a teacher of sewing classes who asks the bookstore to order several sewing titles for a class to be held in the area. The "teacher" then promises to tell students to buy the book at the store in question.

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