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09 Feb

Winter 2005 ABA Board Meeting Report

The American Booksellers Association Board of Directors, senior staff, and representatives from the regional booksellers associations held meetings at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Austin, Texas, from Thursday, February 3, to Sunday, February 6.

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09 Feb

ABA Forums & More in California Next Week

Next week, ABA will be holding a Booksellers Forum and Education Program in both northern and southern California. On Tuesday, February 15, ABA will conduct a Booksellers Forum and Education Program in conjunction with the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association (NCIBA) at its offices in the Presidio in San Francisco. On Wednesday, the program will be held in conjunction with the Southern California Booksellers Association (SCBA) at the Long Beach Hilton in Long Beach.

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09 Feb

Announcing the Book Sense Easter and Passover Top Ten

Here are independent booksellers' picks for the Top Ten Easter and Passover titles for 2005. This list was developed by Book Sense in collaboration with the Association of American Publishers' Get Caught Reading initiative, an ongoing project.

Many thanks to all the independent booksellers who contributed a wealth of enthusiastic nominations for this list. Pads of the list will be included in the February Red Box.

To download this list in PDF format, click here.

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09 Feb

BTW News Briefs

Ferlinghetti to Receive Curtis Benjamin Award

On January 31, the Association of American Publishers (AAP) announced that Lawrence Ferlinghetti, founder of City Lights Publishers and co-owner of San Francisco's City Lights Books, has been named to receive the Curtis Benjamin Award for Creative Publishing. The award will be presented to Ferlinghetti at the association's 2005 Annual Meeting in New York on March 3.

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