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15 Sep

The Book Sense Music Bestseller List -- From Porter to Punk

Based on reporting from hundreds of independent bookstores with Book Sense across the U.S. for the four-week period ending September 12, 2004.

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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15 Sep

GLBA to Focus on "Making It on Main Street"

The Great Lakes Booksellers Association (GLBA) Annual Fall Trade Show will take place at the Hyatt Regency in Dearborn, Michigan, from Friday, October 8, through Sunday, October 10.

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14 Sep

Bookstore Sales Soft in July

Bookstore sales remained soft with July revenue off for the fourth month in a row. July 2004 bookstore sales of $1,153 million were 1.9 percent lower than the $1,175 million seen in July 2003.

Bookstore sales continued to disappoint, especially when contrasted with the strong performance of overall retail for the same period.

Overall retail of $347 billion for July 2004 was 7.4 percent better than the $323 billion in July

2003-2004 RETAIL SALES for BOOKSTORES (unadjusted)

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14 Sep

Speech by ABA COO Oren Teicher Before the Westchester County Board of Legislators

Good evening, my name is Oren Teicher. In addition to being a lifetime resident of Westchester County, I am the COO of the ABA, the national trade group for America's independent retail bookstores, whose national headquarters, as some of you know, is located in Tarrytown.

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