Workers' Compensation Insurance: A Market in Crisis
By Richard Poling, Program Director of LIBRIS
According to a June 23, 2003, New York Times article, "Nationwide, the average cost of workers' compensation insurance has risen 50 percent in the last three years." Depending on where you are located, that percentage could actually be far greater, or possibly less. For instance, California is now in a crisis where carriers have continually adopted at least 30 percent annual increases (cumulatively over 100 percent) since before 2000.
The Mountains and Plains Booksellers Association (MPBA) Trade Show will be held from Thursday, October 2, to Sunday, October 5, at the Marriott Denver Tech Center in Denver. This year's event will offer attendees great bookselling seminars and a stellar lineup of authors. 
Book Sense recently announced the winners of the Make Some Magic With Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix consumer sweepstakes and bookstore display contest. Winning the consumer sweepstakes was 13-year-old Jessica Gerhardt of Santa Monica, California, who picked up the sweepstakes bookmark at the University of Southern California Bookstore in Los Angeles while on a school trip.