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Fall has arrived, and holiday shoppers will soon follow. To help make booksellers' key selling season just a little easier, Book Sense is providing a handy checklist of deadlines, supply and stock resources, and easy-to-implement marketing suggestions.
 This week Book Sense announces the 2006 Halloween Top Ten. The list is produced in conjunction with the Association of American Publishers' Get Caught Reading initiative and is based on the nominations of independent booksellers nationwide.
Booksellers in the Book Sense program will be receiving the Halloween Top Ten in the September Red Box.
For a downloadable PDF file of the Halloween 2006 Top Ten, click here.
For the eight-week period ending September 12, 2006, and based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores with Book Sense nationwide.
Past Category Bestseller lists are available on ABA's trade website, BookWeb.org.
Attention Media: Contact Meg Smith at meg@booksense.com for reprint guidelines for your newspaper or magazine.
 On Friday, September 8, the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) held its Annual Meeting of Members at the McGraw-Hill Auditorium in New York City. At the meeting, six Board members and committee Chairs presented both highlights from the past 12 months and goals for the coming year. Among the topics discussed, the most notable was the book industry's transition to ISBN-13.
This week's Book Sense Bestseller List for September 14 was e-mailed with an error. Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the Purple Potty People was ranked number one on the Children's Illustrated list, when it actually has the top spot on the Children's Interest Bestseller List for September 14. The number-one Children's Illustrated book for September 14 is Is There Really a Human Race? by Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell (illus.) (Joanna Cotler).
Here is the full listing of October Book Sense Picks, with booksellers' comments, as well as a preview of the month's Notables. Independent booksellers in the Book Sense program will be receiving their October Picks fliers in the September Red Box. (The flier includes jacket images, bibliographic information, and bookseller quotes.)
 Amid the majestic mountains of the Wood River Valley of Idaho, Gary Hunt has become the area's foremost purveyor of reading materials: He owns three stores and an active online business and each year sets up a temporary bookstore at the Sun Valley Writers' Conference.
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Booksellers who regularly report to the Book Sense Bestseller List not only help widen the scope of the list and the awareness of the importance of independent bookstores, they also benefit by receiving Nielsen BookScan demographic data. The data is available to all booksellers who report via Nielsen BookScan or the ABA File Upload Method.