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11 Nov

A Timely Reminder: BookSense.com Goes Down to Come Up This Weekend

BookSense.com sites will experience significant downtime this weekend as a new production database and server are brought online. When completed, the upgrade will result in increased speed and stability for participants' Web sites. Most of the downtime is expected to occur during the first half of Sunday.

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11 Nov

Book Sense Announces 2004 Picks Highlights

From About Grace to Waiting for Teddy Williams, 2004 was an auspicious year for great writing. Beginning in January and February, booksellers were selecting such titles as Something Rising (Light and Swift) and Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, and continuing into the fall -- a season that saw an abundance of wonderful titles, such as The Love Wife, The Green Age of Asher Witherow, and Outside Valentine -- independents nationwide were highlighting outstanding titles as Book Sense Picks.

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11 Nov

CRP Sponsors Vow to Continue Battle to Amend Section 215

This week, the sponsors of the Campaign for Reader Privacy (CRP), www.readerprivacy.org, vowed to continue their efforts to amend Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act. Last week's re-election of President George W. Bush almost ensures there will be a major battle next year over the reauthorization of Section 215, as well as other controversial sections of the act that are set to expire on December 31.

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11 Nov

Two Bookstores Find Expansion a Wise Decision

Two well-known bookstores on opposite ends of the country recently moved into larger spaces, and both have seen positive results reflected in both sales and customer satisfaction. In October, Chuck and Dee Robinson's Village Books in Bellingham, Washington, increased its size by a third. And in New York City, on November 4, Peter Glassman moved 24-year-old Books of Wonder two doors down, more than doubling sales-floor square footage and gaining room for a cafe and a larger events space.

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