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In the coming weeks and months, Bookselling This Week would like to shine the spotlight on booksellers who have developed special events to celebrate the Saturday, July 16, release of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Scholastic).
For Kerry Slattery of Skylight Books in Los Angeles, the timing of ABA's announcement of a new partnership with Constant Contact -- a company that provides services to manage e-mail marketing campaigns -- could not have been better. "I was just getting ready to do our regular e-mail newsletter for April and the announcement coincided with that," Slattery told BTW.
Frank Hodge's Hodge-Podge Books in Albany, New York, is a deceiving 240 square feet. By all accounts, it is a colossal bookstore: 23-years-old, with about $1 million in sales annually. Hodge-Podge and its owner have influenced thousands of teachers, parents, and students through renowned reading conferences, school appearances, and hundreds of face-to-face interactions with reluctant readers and their families and children's book illustrators and authors.