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09 Mar

Announcing the Spring 2005 Book Sense Picks Poetry Top Ten

Here is the Spring 2005 Book Sense Picks Poetry Top Ten, based on the nominations of independent booksellers from all regions of the country. The March Red Box will contain the Poetry Top Ten pads and a PDF of the list is available on BookWeb.

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09 Mar

Madison Lobbying Amendment May Burden Small Business Owners' Free Speech

In Madison, Wisconsin, a proposed ordinance that amends a 2001 city law that requires lobbyists to register and report expenses related to their activities could have a chilling effect on public dialogue, according to Sandra Torkildson, owner of A Room of One's Own Bookstore.

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09 Mar

The Importance of Being Affiliated

Booksellers caught up in the myriad details of running both a bricks-and-mortar and virtual bookstore may give little thought to the importance of affiliate programs, but as anyone who has spent time surfing the Web knows, affiliate links are as commonplace on websites as billboards are on highways. And just as a billboard can lead a hungry driver to a restaurant or a fatigued traveler to a motel, an affiliate link on an author's website can be very effective at driving consumers to a bookseller's site.

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08 Mar

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Biographer Offers a Unique Perspective on Franklin, France, and the Birth of America


Stacy Schiff

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