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11 Mar

ABACUS - Year 2: Data Gathering Begins

Building on the success of last year's ABACUS study -- which fashioned a standard that independent booksellers have found extremely useful in gauging their financial performance and in identifying those areas that need to be addressed to move towards greater profitability -- ABA has begun collecting data from member booksellers for the 2004 study.

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11 Mar

AAP Report Posits a Future With More Direct-to-Consumer Sales

"It's 2004. Do you know where your book business is?" was the theme of a presentation by Kosmo Kalliarekos of the Parthenon Group to the 2004 Association of American Publishers (AAP) General Annual Meeting in February.

The report examined "two core dimensions" fueling the evolution of the publishing market -- proximity to the customer and use of content -- for the education, professional, and trade publishing segments.

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11 Mar

Name All the Animals: A Memoir of Grief and Redemption

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11 Mar

BTW News Briefs

Cold Spring May Not Lose Its Independent After All

It looks as if Cold Spring, the historic New York town named by George Washington during America's fight for Independence, will keep its own independent bookstore. The town's Salmagundi Bookstore is closing, but plans are in the works for Scott Meyer, owner of Merritt Bookstores Vol. I and II in nearby Dutchess County, to take over the space. The store will most likely be called Merritt Bookstore Vol. III.

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