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18 Aug

Not Too Early to Be Thinking Holiday Gift Card Orders

While the holiday season may still seem far off, the time for booksellers to begin preparing gift card orders for the biggest shopping time of the year is now. The Book Sense Gift Card Program, just completing its first year of operation, has already helped more than 200 bookstores dramatically increase their sales.

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18 Aug

A President George W. Bush Bibliography

In just under two weeks, the gavel comes down on the opening of the Republican National Convention in New York City, beginning the final leg of the race to the White House. Clearly, all things political are on the minds of many independent bookstores' customers as nine of 15 titles on this week's Book Sense Bestseller List are about today's politics.

Following up on a list that appeared in BTW about Democratic hopeful Senator John Kerry, here is a bibliography of 36 books by, and about, Republican presidential incumbent George W. Bush.

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17 Aug

June Bookstore Sales Continue Slide

Bookstore sales were down in June continuing the slide that began in April. The results were disappointing, particularly when compared with the strong performance of overall retail for the same period.

June 2004 bookstore sales of $1,187 million were 2.9 percent off the $1,222 million realized in June 2003.

By comparison, overall retail sales of $339 billion for June 2004 were 8.3 percent ahead of the $313 billion for June 2003.

2003-2004 RETAIL SALES for BOOKSTORES (unadjusted)

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17 Aug

Greek New Yorker Gives Meaning to His Survival by Facing Athens

Facing Athens: Encounters With the Modern City (North Point Press) is a book George Sarrinikolaou, a New York environmental-policy worker and former journalist, had been wanting to write for years.

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