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13 Feb

Full March/April Book Sense 76 Now Online

The March/April Book Sense 76 -- with booksellers' recommendations -- has been posted at http://news.bookweb.org/read/1144. The printed flier will be shipped to stores beginning the first week of March.

These titles were selected from thousands of nominations from independent booksellers across the country. To access an online nomination form and deadlines for future 76s, go to www.bookweb.org/read/2330.

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13 Feb

A Few More Books to Watch and 76 Mentions in Ads

By Carl Lennertz

Three books to watch, thanks to the almost 400 stores who reported last week! Are YOU one of the stores contributing to this wealth of knowledge?

As it turns out, all of these are also on at least one Regional Bestseller List:

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13 Feb

The Book Sense Category Bestseller List: Christianity

Based on the last four weeks of sales from over 350 independent bookstores across America.

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13 Feb

ABA Booksellers Forum at UMBA Spring Meeting Set for March 8

The American Booksellers Association will be holding a Booksellers Forum in conjunction with the Upper Midwest Booksellers Association (UMBA) Spring Meeting, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Saturday, March 8. The UMBA Spring Meeting runs from March 8 - 9.

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12 Feb

GMA Announces Eighth 'Read This!' Pick

On Wednesday, February 12, Good Morning America's "Read This!" book club made its eighth pick. The ABC morning show's book club's latest choice is dot.bomb: My Days and Nights at an Internet Goliath (Back Bay Books), by J. David Kuo.

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11 Feb

WNBA Announces Children's Bookseller Award Nominees

The Women's National Book Association (WNBA) has announced the nominees for this year's Lucile Micheels Pannell Award. This year, six stores were nominated in the children's bookstore category, and 11 stores were nominated in the general bookstore category.

The nominees in the children's specialty store category are:

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11 Feb

ABA Book Buyer's Handbook Update -- 2/11/03

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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11 Feb

Online Tax Fairness a Big Topic at ABA Bookseller Forum in Ann Arbor

On Thursday, February 6, approximately 30 booksellers attended an ABA Booksellers Forum, held in conjunction with the Great Lakes Booksellers Association (GLBA), at Weber's Inn in Ann Arbor, Michigan. According to a number of attendees, ABA's sales tax fairness initiative was the hot topic of the discussion.

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07 Feb

ABA Applauds National Retailers' Decision to Collect Online Sales Taxes

ABA President Ann Christophersen today called upon Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and Borders to follow the lead of national retailers that recently have begun to collect sales tax on their online sales. The news of the retailers' decision comes just days after more than 560 independent booksellers nationwide joined as co-signers on letters to their state governors calling for the states to enforce state tax laws fairly and uniformly.

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06 Feb

Scholastic Announces Suggested Retail Price for New Harry Potter

Scholastic announced today that the suggested retail price for the next Harry Potter title, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, will be $29.99.

The fifth book in the bestselling series by J.K. Rowling will be published on June 21, 2003. The title will have 38 chapters and will be over a third longer than Rowling's previous book, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

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