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26 Feb

BTW News Briefs

Landmark Dartmouth Bookstore Seeks New Owners

Owners of the Dartmouth Bookstore, a 132-year-old Hanover, New Hampshire, business, are negotiating with several parties interested in purchasing the landmark store. The store discontinued its original practice of selling textbooks to Dartmouth College students about a year ago, and has been striving to rework its layout and product mix in light of increased competition from Internet sales and nearby chain bookstores.

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26 Feb

Booksellers School at BEA to Explore Strategies for Understanding and Growing

As part of its comprehensive educational programming at this year's BookExpo America (BEA), which will be held from June 2 - 6 in Chicago, ABA is sponsoring a Booksellers School, "Fundamentals of Independent Bookselling -- Strategies for Understanding and Growing a Profitable Business." School programming will augment the skills of anyone who is considering opening a bookstore or buying an existing store; booksellers who still feel new to the business or who are new to management and leadership roles; booksellers asp

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26 Feb

Bookseller Due Thanks for Resisting Patriot Act Excesses

Since the official launch of the Campaign for Reader Privacy (www.readerprivacy.com) on Tuesday, February 17, a number of local and national news organizations have reported on the grassroots effort to gather more than one million signatures on a petition calling for the restoration of safeguards for the privacy of bookstore and library records that were eliminated by Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act. The following is an editorial that appeared in New Hampshire's Portsmouth Herald on February 24, 2004.

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26 Feb

Book Sense and Free Expression Initiatives Take Center Stage at D.C. Forum

On Wednesday, February 25, in conjunction with the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association (NAIBA), ABA held a Bookseller Forum in the The Lansburgh Building, next door to Olsson's Books & Records in downtown Washington, D.C. Among the key topics of the forum were the Book Sense Gift Card Program, the Book Sense 76, and the Campaign for Reader Privacy (CRP). The forum was led by ABA CEO Avin Mark Domnitz and COO Oren Teicher, with ABA Vice President Mitchell Kaplan of Books & Books in Coral Gables and Miami Beach.

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