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15 Jul

BTW News Briefs

Books Inc. Announces Plans for a New Store

Michael Tucker, president and co-owner of Books Inc., has announced plans to open a new store on Park Street in Alameda, California. The new Books Inc., the store's 10th location, will be part of the revitalization of the Park Street business district, which includes over 70 historically significant structures, including the Alameda Theater.

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15 Jul

A Classic Bookshop in a Classic Setting

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15 Jul

'We Also Recommend' for August

The downloadable PDF flier of August "We Also Recommend" titles, which includes bibliographic information, jacket images, and booksellers' quotations, is now available (click here).

Titles on the August Book Sense Picks fliers, which were sent to stores with Book Sense in the July Red Box, can be reviewed at news.bookweb.org/read/2687.

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15 Jul

NEA's Reading at Risk Elicits Strong, Varied Responses

The results of a major survey on the state of reading in America were released last Thursday by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), and the organization termed its findings a "bleak assessment" and the news "dire." In his preface to Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America, NEA chairman Dana Gioia explained that the report's key findings could be summarized in one sentence: "Literary reading in America is not only declining rapidly among all groups, but the rate of decline has accelerated, especially among the young.&

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