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26 Jan

ABA to Host Forums/Education Program in California

ABA will be holding a Booksellers Forum and Education Program in both northern and southern California during the week of February 13. The first forum will be on Tuesday, February 15, in conjunction with the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association (NCIBA) at its offices in the Presidio in San Francisco. The following day the program will be held in conjunction with the Southern California Booksellers Association (SCBA) at the Long Beach Hilton in Long Beach. The programs will run from 10:15 a.m. - 3:00 p.m., and lunch is included.

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26 Jan

The Book Sense Biography and Memoir Bestseller List

For the eight-week period ending January 23, 2005, and based on reporting from hundreds of independent booksellers nationwide.

Past Category Bestseller lists are available at www.bookweb.org/read/5677.

Attention Media: Please contact Meg Smith at [email protected] for reprint guidelines for your newspaper or magazine.

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26 Jan

Porter Square Up and Running Well

Dale Szczeblowski, co-owner of the three-month-old Porter Square Books in Cambridge, Massachusetts, said that during his 25-plus years of bookselling, owning his own store hadn't been a career aspiration. "My dream was never to own my own bookstore," said Szczeblowski.

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26 Jan

Polar Express Delivers Prize to Minnesota Bookstore

The Polar Express Ride for Reading, a national marketing campaign developed by Houghton Mifflin and Book Sense and timed with the release of Warner Brothers' animated adaptation of Chris Van Allsburg's The Polar Express this past holiday season, spurred many booksellers to create special events, utilizing the party k

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