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22 Mar

ABA Chicago Forum a High-Level Discussion on Strategic Plan

On March 20, at Transitions Learning Center -- the event space for Transitions Bookplace -- in Chicago, 37 booksellers attended an ABA Booksellers Forum from noon – 2:00 p.m. and, later, 27 attended a financial seminar presented by ABA CEO Avin Mark Domnitz, from 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Regarding the forum, ABA’s Domnitz said that booksellers attending were "deeply engaged … It was one of the best discussions of strategic planning we have had at any of the forums."

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21 Mar

The New Yorker Leads the Pack in Nominations for Magazine Awards

The American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) has announced the nominees for the 37th Annual National Magazine Awards, which will be awarded in a ceremony at the Waldorf-Astoria on May 1. The New Yorker again took away the most nominations -- with nine nominations in eight categories -- and 19 print magazines were nominated for more than one award, including The Atlantic Monthly and Time, with five nominations in five categories. The awards were established to honor "editorial excellence and encourage editorial vitality."

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21 Mar

Young Lions Fiction Award Goes to Colson Whitehead for a Book Sense 76 Pick

On March 20, at a ceremony held at the New York Public Library, author Colson Whitehead was honored with the Young Lions Fiction Award [YLFA] for his novel John Henry Days (Doubleday). Established in 2001, YLFA awards a $10,000 prize to a writer age 35 or younger for a novel or a collection of short stories. Remarkably, this year, all the nominees for YLFA were also Book Sense 76 picks. John Henry Days was a July/August Book Sense 76 pick.

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21 Mar

Tattered Cover to Sell Only Book Sense Gift Certificates with Bar Codes

Beginning April 1, Denver’s Tattered Cover Book Store will sell only Book Sense gift certificates in its stores in Cherry Creek and historic LoDo and on its Web site, www.tatteredcover.com. The store has made some slight modifications in the design of the gold Book Sense gift certificate to allow for ease of identification by its Square One POS system. One of the changes to the original gold design is the use on the back of the certificate of a bar code, which includes the certificate’s sequential number.

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