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19 Mar

Booksellers Forum, ABACUS Preview, and Succession Planning Set for Chicago Next Week

On Thursday, March 27, the American Booksellers Association will be holding a Booksellers Forum, an ABACUS "Sneak Preview," and a "Succession Planning/How to Value Your Business" seminar in Chicago. The events will be held in conjunction with the Great Lakes Booksellers Association (GLBA) Spring Meeting at the Transitions Learning Center in Chicago.

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19 Mar

The Book Sense Bestseller Money List! Business Literature, Personal Finance, and Other Fiscal Matters -- Part 2

Based on four weeks of sales from over 350 independent bookstores across America.

The first part of this list, which ran in Bookselling This Week last week, and other past Category Bestseller lists are available at http://www.bookweb.org/read/5677.

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

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19 Mar

Support the Freedom to Read Protection Act!


Chris Finan

By Chris Finan, ABFFE President

Political courage is usually in short supply, but there was a lot of it on display at a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 6.

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19 Mar

Library of Congress Hosts Reading Promotion Partners Meeting

On Thursday, March 13, the American Booksellers Association participated in the Library of Congress Center for the Book's annual Reading Promotion Partners Meeting, held at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Representing ABA at the meeting was Jill Perlstein, ABA's director of marketing. "It was a productive meeting," Perlstein reported. "It's encouraging to see how many groups are looking to get together to promote literacy."

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