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13 Jul

From Wall Street to Main Street

During a casual conversation with her local bookseller at Romo Books in Far Hills, New Jersey, Diana Lawrence went from book buyer to bookstore buyer in less time than it takes to browse the bestsellers. In the spring of 2001, Lawrence was recently retired from a long career on Wall Street, when Joseph Romo mentioned that Romo Books was for sale.

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13 Jul

Harry Potter Miscellany

Partners/West and NCIBA Create a Backup Plan

Partners/West Book Distributing is offering members of the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association a backup plan to ensure stores have enough copies of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Scholastic) to satisfy demand this weekend. Beginning on Friday, June 15, and on Saturday and Sunday, July 16 - 17, all Bay Area independents with Partners accounts can pick up copies of the book at the NCIBA offices.

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13 Jul

Emporia Main Street Means Better Business for Kansas Town

This year, Emporia, Kansas -- the home of about 30,000 people, as well as the Town Crier Bookstore -- was the recipient of a Great American Main Street Award from the National Trust Main Street Center.

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13 Jul

ABA's BEA 2005 Education Sessions (A Preliminary Presentation)

Based on the results of the 2005 Education Survey distributed to bookseller members last fall, ABA developed a rich and thorough series of educational offerings presented in an all-day education program on Thursday, June 2, at BookExpo America. Currently, ABA is working to bring many of these sessions to the Web in robust audio/video presentations to meet the needs of all ABA member booksellers.

Until those presentations are ready, ABA has made available on BookWeb PowerPoint presentations of five of the Thursday morning education sessions:

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