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Mysterious Galaxy honored with Raven Award; Monkey See, Monkey Do raises funds for organ procurement program; Galaxy Bookshop celebration benefits local library

Between Small Business Saturday and the Thanks for Shopping Indie and Kobo Mini promotions, many ABA members were reporting increases in holiday weekend sales and a renewed sense of appreciation for locally owned businesses among their customers.

President Obama shops local; Booksellers upbeat; Harvard Book Store celebrates; Greenlight’s Stockton Bagnulo talks e-fairness on MSNBC; Sebastopol Copperfield’s introduces new GM

As ABA members began receiving their shipments of Kobo eReaders earlier this month, a number of stores launched creative and personalized promotions to spread the word to customers.

Gulliver’s Books changes hands; Politics & Prose on SNL; MSNBC visits [words]; Seminary Co-op moves; The Peregrine Book Company opens its doors

Booksellers are busy putting the final touches on their own unique plans for the Thanks for Shopping Indie promotion, which begins on November 24, Small Business Saturday.

Quail Ridge owner plans to sell business; Napa’s Copperfield’s reopens; Centuries and Sleuths featured

This week it became official: Mary Gay Shipley has sold That Bookstore in Blytheville, in Blytheville, Arkansas, to Grant Hill, effective January 2, 2013.

Several ABA member bookstores affected by last week’s hurricane are still working towards recovery. Among them are Bank Square Books, which has been closed due to severe flooding since last Monday, and New Jersey’s BookTowne, which has been closed for 10 days due to power failure.

DIESEL gives thanks; Washington stores host “My Bookstore” lit crawl; Northshire closer to second location

With the help of the Bookstore Training Group of Paz & Associates, Left Bank Books in St. Louis, Missouri, has a new look in time for the holiday season.

Books & Books to celebrate 30th anniversary; Greenlight launches signed first editions club; Books of Wonder kicks off fundraising campaign; Busboys and Poets opens bookstore in Hyattsville; Bookin’ It’s Hansen wins poetry awards

Books on Broad opened on June 12 in Camden, South Carolina, and owners Bill Funderburk and his wife, state Rep. Laurie Slade Funderburk, are happy to be a part of the downtown’s revitalization project.

ABFFE President Chris Finan reflects on the 30th anniversary of Banned Books Week earlier this month, an event that was definitely  “not your grandmother’s celebration of the freedom to read.”

Left Bank undergoes makeover; Lyon Books named Chico’s best; Centuries & Sleuths hosts discussion of Trudi Kanter memoir