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25 Jun

Sarasota News & Books Reopens After Flood

On June 28, a new and improved Sarasota News & Books in Sarasota, Florida, will reopen after a disastrous plumbing accident on March 27 left the store with extensive structural damage and a complete loss of usable inventory. (For the full story about the flood, click here.)

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25 Jun

Congress to Ashcroft: Has FBI Requested Bookstore Records?

The House Judiciary Committee wants to know how many subpoenas the Justice Department has issued to bookstores, libraries, and newspapers under a provision of the USA PATRIOT Act.

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20 Jun

Bookstore Sales Eke Out Modest Gain

Bookstore sales for April stabilized, reversing the downward trend of the past two months by eking out a slight increase over April 2001. However, April is the third month in a row in which bookstore sales failed to keep pace with overall retail.

Preliminary April bookstore sales figures of $1,042 million were 0.8 percent better than the $1,034 million of the previous April.

Overall retail sales of $297 billion for April 2002 came in 4.9 percent over the $283 billion realized in April 2001.

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20 Jun

Barry Trotter Done Gone: Parody and Free Speech Discussed at ALA

Author Michael Gerber is not afraid of being sued over the publication of his new book, Barry Trotter and the Unauthorized Parody. He is a first-time author who is still working a day job to make ends meet. "The worst thing that could happen to me is my cats would be jointly owned by Warner Brothers and Scholastic," Gerber said during a program at the American Library Association convention in Atlanta on Monday.

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