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01 Apr

Against All Enemies: Booksellers' New Best Friend

A remarkable amount of media coverage of Richard A. Clarke's Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror (Free Press) has created a demand that booksellers are struggling to supply. A March 26, page-one story in the New York Times led with a description of the "literary phenomenon" of the book at Washington, D.C.'s Politics and Prose Bookstore.

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01 Apr

Booksellers Encouraged to RSVP Soon for Popular Book Sense Author Luncheon

The Book Sense Book & Author Luncheon, previously called the Book Sense 76 Luncheon, one of the highlights of the annual ABA Convention, will be held on Friday, June 4, at this year's BookExpo America at Chicago's McCormick Place Convention Center. The free noontime event, which is open to all bookstores with Book Sense, provides a special opportunity for booksellers to meet dozens of authors whose books they have helped make past or present Book Sense Picks. Reservations are required and are limited to two per bookstore.

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01 Apr

Phase I of Reader Privacy Petition Drive to Conclude May 17

ABA announced today that phase one of the Campaign for Reader Privacy (www.readerprivacy.com/) petition drive would culminate and conclude with a CRP presentation sometime during BookExpo America, which will be held from June 2 - 6 at the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago. Booksellers are urged to continue to collect signatures (and periodically mail them to ABA) through the weekend of May 15, and on May 17 mail all remaining petitions to ABA.

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01 Apr

ABA to Booksellers: Watch the Mail for Board and Book of the Year Ballots

ABA bookstore members should be on the lookout for an envelope containing ballots to vote for the 2004 Book Sense Book of the Year Awards and to approve officers and elect directors to the ABA Board.

By early next week, stores will receive the mailing, which also includes a cover letter from ABA Nominating Committee Chair Neal Coonerty of Bookshop Santa Cruz, biographical data on the Board candidates, information on ABA programming at this year's BookExpo America, and a special postage-paid envelope for return of the ballots to ABA's accountant, KPMG.

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