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04 Jan

Welcome to Karibu Books -- Empowering and Educating

Karibu Books, an African-American specialty store, now includes five locations in the Washington, D.C. area, with a sixth opening in Baltimore later in 2005. The company's philosophy is to empower and educate people by providing complete access to books by and about people of African descent.

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22 Dec

Random House Considers Direct Sales Online

Random House CEO Peter W. Olson's annual end-of-the-year letter to the company's employees has caused some consternation among booksellers and drawn the attention of the media. For the most part, Olson's letter was a review of the company's key accomplishments in 2004, but one of Random House's potential initiatives, Olson said, was "direct sales online." The brief mention of the publisher selling direct via the Web spurred news articles in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, among others.

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22 Dec

Important Gift Certificate Deadline Approaches

As announced by ABA in October, after December 31, 2004, the association will no longer sell Book Sense Paper Gift Certificates to stores. Orders for gift certificates to meet bookstores' post-holiday needs may be placed until then by calling (800) 637-0037, ext. 1292 or 1293.

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22 Dec

Book Sense Gift Cards 24/7

The hot topic of media coverage of the 2005 holiday shopping season continues to be gift cards. They have been described as the "hottest gift of the season," "riskless," the "shopper's saving grace," "the easiest present to get through airport security," and "more glamorous than cash."

Booksellers around the country offering Book Sense Gift Cards are reporting record sales now, and are confident that increased sales will result when the cards are redeemed after the holidays.

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