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20 Jan

ABA Book Buyer's Handbook Update -- 1/20/04

Below is an outline of the most recent changes to the data in the ABA Book Buyer's Handbook online at handbook.bookweb.org.

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20 Jan

November Bookstore Sales Off Slightly From Last Year

After five consecutive months of gains, retail sales at bookstores turned downward in November. Preliminary data released by the Bureau of the Census shows November 2003 sales at bookstores of $1,041 million, down 2.9 percent from $1,072 million in November 2002.

Despite soft sales in November, 2003 year-to-date sales for bookstores are 2.5 percent better than for the first 11 months of 2002.

Overall retail sales of $316 billion for November 2003 were 5.0 percent ahead of the $301 billion for November of 2002.

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20 Jan

Oprah Announces New Book Club Pick

On Tuesday, January 20, Oprah announced that the next title to be read by Oprah's Book Club is HarperPerennial's One Hundred Years of Solitude by Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

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15 Jan

The Man Who Would Be Gollum: LOTR's Andy Serkis

Author/actor Andy Serkis, aka Gollum

Lord of the Rings movie fans who assume the character Gollum is simply the c

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