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20 Sep

Weekly Feature Looks at Books in the Media

Every week, Bookselling This Week's Media Guide provides timely information about books and author appearances featured in print publications and on TV and radio programs, as well as news about regional and national book-related events. This information is a helpful tool for booksellers planning orders and displays, and may come in handy when trying to track down titles sought by customers who saw or heard something in the media, but are lacking a title.

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20 Sep

July Bookstore Sales Inch Ahead

Preliminary figures recently released by the Bureau of the Census, Current Retail Trade Branch put July retail sales at bookstores slightly ahead of the same period last year. July sales of $1,138 million were just 0.9 percent higher than July 2004. While not a significant increase, this is only the second time this year that monthly sales out paced the previous year's performance. Year-to-date sales at bookstores are down 3.2 percent.

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15 Sep

SCBA Fall Program Expands to Include Trade Show

The Southern California Booksellers Association (SCBA) will be holding its Fall Authors Feast and Trade Show on Saturday, October 15, 2005, at the Renaissance Long Beach Hotel in Long Beach.

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15 Sep

Book Sense Gift Certificates Should No Longer Be Sold

Booksellers should no longer be selling Book Sense gift certificates; they should, however, continue to redeem valid certificates sold before June 1, 2005.

Book Sense will pay 10 cents for each unsold Book Sense paper gift certificate returned to ABA via a traceable manner (e.g., UPS). Certificates should be sent to the attention of Peter Reynolds at ABA, 200 White Plains Rd., Tarrytown, NY 10591. The minimum reimbursement amount for this buy-back is $5, regardless of the number of certificates returned.

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