BTW Articles

06 Mar

Do You Want to Be in Pictures?

Still Time to Send Photos for May 5 Book Sense Insert in The New Yorker

The May 5 issue of The New Yorker, on sale April 28, will include a special insert highlighting titles selected by independent booksellers for the May/June Book Sense 76. Books that make great gifts for Mother's Day, Father's Day, and graduation will be featured. To complement the story, the magazine is seeking photographs of bookstores with Book Sense. All Book Sense stores are encouraged to send photographs of their stores, especially good exterior shots.

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06 Mar

Watch for These Book Sense Ads in Print!

Two top ten March/April Book Sense 76 picks are recommended to consumers by booksellers with Book Sense in upcoming ads in national magazines.

In the March 31 issue of The New Yorker, on sale March 24, Jeff Azbill of Davis-Kidd Booksellers in Jackson, Tennessee, recommends The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (Doubleday).

The Final Confession of Mabel Stark by Robert Hough (Atlantic Monthly) is the recommendation of Alissa Haslam of Broadway Books in Portland, Oregon, in an ad in the May issue of The Atlantic Monthly.

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06 Mar

Tulsa Landmark Still Thriving After All These Years

Someday soon, Steve Stephenson will hand over the keys to his 55-year-old store, Steve's Books & Magazines, to his daughter-in-law, Joanie Stephenson. When he does, it will mark an end of sorts, and a new beginning, for a store that has become a Tulsa, Oklahoma, landmark -- a store that opened soon after World War II and is still thriving today.

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06 Mar

SEBA Announces Book Award Winners

The Southeast Booksellers Association has announced the winners of the association's 2003 Book Awards, which "seek to recognize the year's best books out of the South."

The winners are:

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06 Mar

Exclusive, Affordable Rate at BEA Host Hotel for Independent Booksellers Still Available

ABA member booksellers planning to attend BookExpo America (BEA), May 28 - June 1, in Los Angeles, can still take advantage of an exclusive, money-saving hotel deal put together by ABA and BEA.

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05 Mar

Brownstein and Haslett Win Literary Awards

Gabriel Brownstein, author of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apt. 3W (Norton), has been awarded the 2003 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, as reported by the Boston Globe. The sponsors of the award -- PEN/New England and the John F.

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04 Mar

ABA Book Buyer's Handbook Update -- 3/4/03

Below is an outline of the most recent changes to the ABA Book Buyer's Handbook online.

Publishers can update their online listings and add special offers at any time using the Publisher Editing Tools at http://handbook.bookweb.org/pubhome.jsp. Questions about access to the editing features of the Handbook online should be e-mailed to [email protected] or call (800) 637-0037, ext. 1263 or 1261.

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04 Mar

Madeleine Albright, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Gerry Adams Headline BEA Breakfast Speaker Program

Ellen DeGeneres to Appear at Benefit Performance

BookExpo America (BEA) has announced speakers for its special events at this year's trade show, including its annual Book & Author Breakfasts. BEA will be held at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, May 28 - June 1, 2003.

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04 Mar

Demonstrating Real Patriotism

By Linda Ramsdell

New England Booksellers Association President Linda Ramsdell recently wrote NEBA members about her concerns over the USA Patriot Act, the importance of the First Amendment, and her beliefs about the full definition of the word "patriot." BTW is grateful to Ramsdell and to NEBA for permission to reprint her letter from the February issue of NEBA News.

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04 Mar

Kepler: Book Chains Get Free Ride Online

Independent booksellers, including Kepler's, protest state's tax system

By David Boyce
Almanac Staff Writer

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