BTW Articles

13 Jun

Featured Titles in Upcoming Book Sense Ads

Three July/August Book Sense 76 picks will be featured in print ads in the coming weeks.

The Life of Pi by Yann Martel (Harcourt) will be featured in an ad in the July/August issue of The Atlantic (on newsstands the week of June 18).

The July 1 issue of The New Yorker (on sale June 24) will include a Book Sense ad featuring Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs (St. Martin’s Press), and the July 8 issue (on sale July 1) will feature Perma Red by Debra Magpie Earling (Blue Hen/Putnam).

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13 Jun

Right Here in Northfield, River City -- A New Trade Bookstore

River City Books of Northfield, Minnesota, open as of March 2002, is a direct descendent of two highly regarded educational institutions in Northfield: Carleton College and St. Olaf College. River City Books is technically a branch of the Carleton College Bookstore, and a close friend of the St. Olaf College Bookstore.

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13 Jun

Why My Store Will Report to the Book Sense Bestseller List (Soon) and Why Yours Should, Too

By Scott Foley

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13 Jun

Bookseller and Publisher Cooperation Sought to Keep Online Handbook Up to Date

The launch of the Book Buyer’s Handbook online on April 25 has enabled ABA to add new data and to change incorrect information on an ongoing basis to provide booksellers with a comprehensive source for accurate, timely information about publishers’, wholesalers’, and distributors’ trade terms. In order to maintain the data’s accuracy, the association is seeking the help of booksellers, as well as publishers, in alerting handbook staff to new or changing terms.

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13 Jun

Booksellers Among Those Affected by Colorado Wildfires

Wildfires covered hundreds of thousands of acres in Colorado, as approximately 1,800 firefighters from around the country headed to the state to battle blazes that have erupted in severe drought conditions. By Thursday, approximately 90,000 acres in the foothills south of Denver were burning, and officials estimated that over 150,000 acres statewide were affected by a number of fires.

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13 Jun

Good Morning America Asks Book Clubs to 'Read This!'

Pulpwood Queens recommend Ann Packer’s The Dive from Clausen’s Pier

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13 Jun

More Great Children's Books

Titles Not Selected for the Children’s Book Sense 76, But Still Worthy of Attention

This is strictly if you are interested in discovering a sleeper or two that might turn into a nice stock item or handsell. I just can’t bear to let these passionate recommendations go unrecognized in some fashion. Enjoy.

Carl
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Arranged in age sequence:

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13 Jun

Are You Still Blue?

Or, Get the New Gold Gift Certificates!

By Carl Lennertz

Bear with me; this is a "5!" plea from me. It’s that important.

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18 Jun

Bookseller Fears Buyers Will Be Bound in Chains

The following profile of independent bookselling in Chicago, and of ABA’s new president, Ann Christophersen of Women & Children First, originally appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times.

By Lee Copeland

Ann Christophersen has been battling a turf war with Borders for the last two years.

The bookselling giant wants to open a 20,000-square-foot store in Uptown, about a mile from her Andersonville shop -- Women & Children First Bookstore.

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19 Jun

2002 Fall Regional Trade Show Schedule

The fall trade show season will begin with the Mid-South Booksellers Association show, to be held on September 5 - 8 in New Orleans, Louisiana. In the weeks following, there will be nine more shows, and Bookselling This Week will provide complete pre- and post-show coverage for all of them.

Look for BTW’s pre-show coverage to begin in mid-July.

Here is a list of the fall shows:

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