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19 Nov

Holiday Shoppers to Buy More Books According to Retail Survey

Good news continues to fill the cash registers of booksellers, according to the National Retail Federation (NRF) in the second installment of its 2003 Holiday Consumer Intentions and Actions Survey, published on November 17. The survey revealed that 60.8 of consumers intended to purchase books, CDs, and DVDs as a holiday gift. Only apparel -- at 62.2 percent.

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19 Nov

The Book Sense Holiday Food and Cooking Bestseller List

Based on four weeks of sales ended November 16, 2003, from hundreds of independent bookstores across the country.

Attention Media: Please contact Kristen Gilligan at [email protected] for reprint guidelines for your newspaper or magazine.

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19 Nov

The State Editorial -- Internet Sales Take Ever-Larger Bite Out of Tax

Internet Sales Take Ever-Larger Bite Out of Tax

The following editorial, calling for the collection of sales tax for online purchases, appeared in the October 25, 2003, edition of The State, a daily newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina.

Remember the first time you surfed the Internet? The first time you bought something over the Internet? Probably not. Cyberspace has become so ubiquitous that it's easy to forget that most people didn't even know what "online" meant a mere decade ago.

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19 Nov

Today Show Book Club to Read The Known World

On Tuesday, November 18, author Carl Hiaasen recommended The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad Press) as the next selection to be read by NBC News' Today Show Today Book Club.

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