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04 Aug

Changing Hands and the Chocolate Factory

Opening the special candy bars, children and adults of all ages hold their breath. Only a select few will find a golden ticket entitling them to a complete tour of a local, independent chocolate factory. None are exactly sure what they will find there, if they do win.

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04 Aug

Quill Awards Announce Nominees, Celebrity Hosts

On Thursday, August 4, the five nominees in each of the 19 categories for the first Quill Awards were announced by Reed Business Information (RBI) and the NBC Universal Television Stations. The nominees for the awards, which were created to honor excellence in book publishing, were selected by the Quills Nominating Board, comprised of approximately 6,000 librarians and booksellers, including booksellers with Book Sense.

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04 Aug

Record-breaking ABACUS Study Moves to Next Phase

Collection of 2004 data from ABA member bookstores for the 2005 ABACUS Study ended this week with an unprecedented number of participating stores having submitted their financial information.

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04 Aug

'Round the Regionals

Although the regional booksellers associations are all busily preparing for their fall trade shows (a complete schedule is available at news.bookweb.org/read/3635), this week a number of them contacted BTW to report news of other events.


GLBA Creates Consumer Website

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