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01 Apr

College Store's Student-Staff Embraces Book of the Year 'Assignment'

The student-staff at the Colby (College) Bookstore in Waterville, Maine, has been eagerly awaiting the announcement of the 2004 Book Sense Book of the Year finalists. According to Barb Shutt, the store's assistant director, this is the second year the store is having the students on staff read the finalists and then rate them to come up with the store's vote for the Book of the Year Awards.

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01 Apr

Publishers Weekly Introduces Online On-Sale Calendar

Publishers Weekly recently launched an On-Sale Calendar, providing a seasonal overview of the biggest adult hardcover titles and their on-sale dates, on its Web site, PublishersWeekly.com. The calendar, which is available to Publishers Weekly subscribers only, will feature reviews and publisher and author information, as well as Web site links.

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01 Apr

BTW News Briefs

New Manager Begins at Concord Bookshop

The Concord Bookshop of Concord, Massachusetts, after months of discord between the owners and the staff, has a new manager. As reported in the Concord Journal on March 25, John Netzer, with nine year's experience as manager of a bookstore in New Canaan, Connecticut, and book buying and managing stints at other New England bookstores, including the now defunct Reading, International in Harvard Square, began work at Concord in mid-March.

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01 Apr

BEA to Hold Religion & Spirituality Day

BookExpo America (BEA) has announced that this year's trade show, to be held from June 2 - 6 at Chicago's McCormick Place Convention Center, will feature a Religion & Spirituality Day, a focused educational program and special author event, on Friday, June 4.

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