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18 Jun

Wisconsin Booksellers to Request Meeting with House Judiciary Chairman Re: H.R. 1157

The American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE) is asking Wisconsin independent booksellers to sign a letter that will be sent to Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI), the House Judiciary Committee chair, regarding the Freedom to Read Protection Act (H.R. 1157). In the letter, the booksellers express their support for the Act and also request a meeting with the congressman.

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17 Jun

Hotel California a Hit With Booksellers & Publishers

For this year's BookExpo America, BEA management, together with ABA, reserved the overwhelming majority of the Radisson Wilshire Plaza's rooms at a great rate, thereby making the "Hotel California" (as it was dubbed) the exclusive hotel for independent booksellers attending the Los Angeles convention. And, much as it was with the eponymous Eagles' song, the Hotel California was a smash hit.

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17 Jun

Bookstore Sales for April Remain Soft

Bookstore sales in April were soft, though the decline was not as sharp as it had been in the previous two months. April sales of $984 million were 5.7 percent lower than the $1,043 million realized in April of last year.

Overall retail sales of $308 billion for April 2003 were 3.7 percent ahead of the $297 billion for the previous year.

April is the 15th month in a row in which bookstore sales failed to keep pace with overall retail.

2002-2003 RETAIL SALES for BOOKSTORES (unadjusted)

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17 Jun

Nina Revoyr's Southland Stakes Out a Different Los Angeles

The literature of Los Angeles is written by outsiders.

By Raymond Chandler, for instance, of Illinois, by way of England. By John Fante, from Colorado. By Joan Didion, born in Sacramento.

And now, in the 21st century, by Nina Revoyr: born in Japan and raised in Wisconsin, before moving to L.A. at age nine.

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