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29 Jan

BTW News Briefs

Michigan Agrees Not to Enforce Minors' Access Law Until Hearing

Last week, Michigan's Solicitor General, Thomas Casey, came to an agreement with a coalition of booksellers, publishers, magazine distributors, and free expression groups not to enforce a minors' access law until a hearing on the coalition's request for a preliminary injunction. In exchange, the plaintiffs will not ask for an expedited schedule.

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29 Jan

MPBA Wants Minors' Access Bill Voted Down

This week, the Colorado House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly in favor of H.B. 1078, a bill that would make it illegal to allow a minor access to any material considered "harmful to minors." The bill has members of the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Association (MPBA) up in arms because, MPBA contends, the bill is vague, would be impossible to uphold, and could place severe restrictions on the availability of constitutionally protected materials.

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29 Jan

Calling All Vendors! Get Your Free Listing in the Booksellers' Resource Directory

ABA is asking all nonbook vendors of products and services that would be of interest to independent booksellers to submit data for a free listing in the new Booksellers' Resource Directory (formerly the Source Guide). The directory is a valuable online resource for booksellers looking for vendors of new sidelines, office supplies, display fixtures, computer hardware and software, design services, and much more.

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29 Jan

Ruminator to Get One-Month Extension

As BTW went to press, it appears that Ruminator Books' major creditor, Macalester College, will be giving the St. Paul, Minnesota, bookstore one more month to raise $500,000 of the more than $1 million it owes the college. The extension of the deadline for Ruminator's closing to the end of February comes as a result of the store's receiving an undisclosed amount of financial support from an anonymous investor.

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