BTW Articles

27 Jun

Thursday Tips, Reminders, and 76 Picks in the News

1) THE DANGEROUS LIVES OF ALTAR BOYS, by Chris Fuhrman, from University of Georgia Press ($14.95 paper, 0820323381). Fuhrman’s novel made the March/April 76 this year as a Rediscovery Pick ... and now it's a movie just opened in NYC and L.A., about to go national. It's kind of neat that you were in on this first. Jodie Foster produces and stars, and it has nothing to do with the current scandals; it's a ’70s coming-of-age story.

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27 Jun

Announcing: The First Book Sense Category Bestseller List: Cookbooks

Based on the last four weeks of sales from over 300 independent bookstores across America.

Next week: Business Books

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27 Jun

Galaxy Expands and Drives Around Rural Vermont

Linda Ramsdell, owner of the Galaxy Bookshop in Hardwick, Vermont, is hanging up her bookseller’s hat for a few days and donning both author escort and limo driver’s caps to add a new dimension to New England handselling. The author Ramsdell will escort, from June 30 to July 3, is Michael Crummey (Book Sense 76 Pick River Thieves, Houghton Mifflin), and the limo is her Subaru Impreza.

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27 Jun

ABFFE Announces New Board Members

On June 21, the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE) announced the election of three new Board members. Mitchell Kaplan of Books & Books, Coral Gables, Florida; Matt Miller of The Tattered Cover, Denver; and Wendy Strothman, executive vice president of Houghton Mifflin, have joined the ABFFE Board. Each will serve a three-year term.

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27 Jun

New Book Sense National Marketing Programs Set to Launch

The coming weeks will see the launch of significant new promotional opportunities for independent bookstores participating in the Book Sense national marketing program.

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02 Jul

Mosley's Bad Boy Brawly Brown Latest USA Today Book Club Selection

The USA Today book club has chosen Walter Mosley’s Bad Boy Brawly Brown as its latest selection. The newspaper announced its third choice -- and the first cloth title -- in its July 2 edition.

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02 Jul

House of Representatives Passes COPPA -- ABFFE and Others Warn Bill Is Unconstitutional

On Tuesday, June 25, the U.S. House of Representatives voted, by a margin of 413 to 8, to pass the Child Obscenity and Pornography Protection Act of 2002 (COPPA). The bill, HR 4623, amends the federal criminal code to criminalize the production, dissemination, or possession of computer-generated, or computer images that are, or are virtually indistinguishable from, child pornography.

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03 Jul

Two Independent Bookstores Open Their Doors as Book Sense Participants

For both Pat Willoughby and Petra Williams, the prospect of running an independent bookstore represented a radical change from their careers in corporate America.

Willoughby, in sales and marketing for the last 20 years, is the owner of the Burke’s Books of Park Ridge in Park Ridge, Illinois, set to open in late July. Williams, the co-owner, along with her husband Daniel, of All About Books in Smithville, Missouri, just outside of Kansas City, was an engineer. All About Books will open in mid-July.

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03 Jul

Happy Birthday to Harry, Happy Birthday to Harry ...

Booksellers participating in the Book Sense national marketing program will have a special opportunity this summer to celebrate Harry Potter’s July 31st birthday. Scholastic Books and Book Sense have joined efforts to present the "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Celebration" promotion.

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03 Jul

The Book Sense Category Bestseller List: Business

Based on the last four weeks of sales from over 300 independent bookstores across America.

Next week: Poetry

Thanks to all the stores that report, the new expanded electronic reporting options, and the software our team here has built to sort and slice a ton of data according to BISAC categories, this is the second of many subject category lists to run in BTW each week. (Cookbooks ran last week.)

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