BTW Articles

25 Aug

Domnitz Scholarship Open to 2010 ABACUS Participants

For the second year, ABA will award the Avin Mark Domnitz Scholarship to the Winter Institute in honor of its former CEO's wide-ranging contributions to independent bookselling. The scholarship to the Sixth Annual Winter Institute is open to the owners and regular employees of bookstores that submit their 2009 financial data to the ABACUS Survey.

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01 Sep

Banned Books Week Celebration Grows at Literary Life

Inspired by last year’s positive response to its Banned Books Week display, Michigan’s Literary Life Bookstore & More has expanded plans for this year’s September 25 - October 2 celebration of the freedom to read.

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01 Sep

Mystery Lovers Readies for 20th Anniversary

After 20 years, Mystery Lovers Bookshop is still Western Pennsylvania's go-to place for crime and mystery fiction. Spouses Richard Goldman and Mary Alice Gorman opened the bookstore on October 31, 1990, with the hopes of catering to a popular niche.

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08 Sep

Centuries & Sleuths Celebrates 20 Years

This past weekend, Centuries & Sleuths, a bookstore in Forest Park, Illinois, specializing in history, mystery, and biography, celebrated its 20th anniversary by hosting in-store panels featuring local authors who have had a part in the store’s history.

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09 Sep

Booksellers NZ Reaches Out to Members After Earthquake

Since the earthquake that shook New Zealand's South Island on September 3, Booksellers New Zealand, the organization representing the country’s independent bookshops as well as major retail chains, is finding ways to stay involved and reach out to its members.

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09 Sep

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IndieBound takes to the streets of Naperville; The King’s English celebrates; Flavorwire names 10 best indies

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15 Sep

Inklings Celebrates 10 Years of Serving the Community

In 2000, when Susan Richmond and her daughter-in-law opened a bookshop in an old fruit warehouse, their goal was to create a store that serves the entire community.

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16 Sep

Booksellers Eager to Celebrate Freedom to Read

Booksellers are stocking their shelves with books that have been deemed vulgar, violent, or offensive in preparation for Banned Books Week, a national celebration of the freedom to read, which takes place from September 25 - October 2.

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16 Sep

Community Grieves Loss of David Thompson

David Thompson, a lover of crime fiction, a publisher, and a longtime staff member of Murder by the Book in Houston, Texas, died unexpectedly on Monday, September, 13.

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16 Sep

Around Indies

Present Tense celebrates five years of business; Book blogger says, “Leave it to the professionals”

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