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04 Nov

New Bookstores Welcomed in Cambridge and Beverly Hills

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04 Nov

IBID Integrates With Book Sense Gift Card Program

This week, Book Sense announced that booksellers can now process Book Sense Gift Cards through an enhanced and optional feature of IBID, Version 14. This new way to process gift cards is being offered to complement the other methods already available from Givex. (For more on the different ways to process Book Sense gift cards, click here.)

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04 Nov

Local Ohio Businesses Win Victory at the Polls

While many were disappointed by this week's election results, the local businesses of Hudson, Ohio, were very happy with the way at least one vote turned out. Residents of historic Hudson made crystal clear their support of local merchants and voted down Issue 25 -- which sought to change local zoning laws to increase the allowable square footage of retail stores -- by a resounding margin of two to one, according to Liz Murphy of the Learned Owl Bookshop in Hudson.

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04 Nov

Women & Children First Creates Unique Way to Celebrate 25 Years

Women & Children First, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this month, has become such a venerable institution that Chicago's mayor, Richard Daley, has proclaimed the store's anniversary date -- November 10 -- "Women & Children First Day." Festivities to celebrate the store's silver anniversary include a November 20 party and benefit for two local charitable organizations.

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