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16 Aug

The NEBA Fall Trade Show Offers Many Authors and a New Award

The 2005 New England Booksellers Association (NEBA) Fall Trade Show will be held on Friday, September 16, through Sunday, September 18, in Providence, Rhode Island, at the Rhode Island Convention Center.

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16 Aug

ABA Files Amicus Brief to Support Robinson-Patman Act

On July 25, ABA joined a number of retail and dealer trade groups in submitting an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the Robinson-Patman Act (RPA) -- a federal law enacted in 1936 that protects individual competitors from price discrimination in favor of large chain stores by their suppliers. ABA submitted its friend-of-the-court brief in support of the Arkansas-based truck dealer Reeder-Simco GMC, which claims Volvo violated RPA by favoring other truck dealers.

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16 Aug

Visa Security Program Is Required of All Retailers

In 2001, Visa USA began instituting its Cardholder Information Security Program (CISP) in an effort to protect Visa cardholder data, wherever it resides, "ensuring that members, merchants, and service providers maintain the highest information security standard." To comply with CISP, Visa created a set of requirements that retailers, card processors, and POS vendors have to meet in order to properly secure the data embedded on each customer's Visa Card.

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15 Aug

Bookstore Sales in June Continue Downward Slide

Continuing a disappointing trend, preliminary census figures put June retail sales at bookstores at $1,159 million, a drop of 6.5 percent compared to June 2004. This is not good news in the wake of disappointing sales in four of the five previous months of 2005. Year-to-date sales are down 3.8 percent.

Overall retail sales continue strong and continue to outperform bookstore sales. Overall retail sales of $360 billion for June 2005 were 10.4 percent ahead of the $326 billion reported in June of 2004.

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