Book Sense

The Summer 2006 Book Sense Paperback Picks list incorrectly attributed the bookstore in the quote recommending Evening Ferry by Katherine Towler. It should have noted that Karen Vail's store is Armchair Bookstore located in Dennis, MA. Book Sense apologizes for the error.

The 2006 Book Sense Summer Paperback Picks, with booksellers' comments, is now available on BookWeb.org. The printed list will be sent to stores with Book Sense in the June Red Box mailing.

The list is a wide-ranging and intriguing collection of great titles for summer readers, and Book Sense sends thanks to every bookseller who nominated titles.

Next week's Book Sense Bestseller List reporting deadline has been extended due to the Memorial Day holiday.

Booksellers reporting via BookScan will have until 3:00 p.m. on Tuesday, May 30, to report to BookScan. The deadline for booksellers reporting via the ABA file upload or web entry methods will be midnight on Tuesday.

The June 1 bestseller lists in PDF and HTML formats will be posted to ABA's trade website, BookWeb.org, in the late afternoon on Wednesday, May 31.

Based on reporting by independent bookstores with Book Sense nationwide for the eight-week period ending May 21, 2006.

Past Category Bestseller lists are available at www.bookweb.org/read/5677.

Attention Media: Contact Meg Smith at [email protected] for reprint guidelines for your newspaper or magazine.

When Don Muller first landed in Sitka in the mid-1970s, he worked as a chemist at the local pulp mill. When he could no longer tolerate the mill's effects on the surrounding Tongass Forest, he left. Muller and his wife, Mary Stensvold, then formed a partnership with two other couples to create Old Harbor Books, a store with a special focus on environmental and other progressive causes.

Based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores with Book Sense nationwide during the eight-week period ending May 9, 2006.

Past Category Bestseller lists are available at www.bookweb.org/read/5677.

Attention Media: Contact Meg Smith at [email protected] for reprint guidelines for your newspaper or magazine.

Take a boy raised under the big-sky canopy of rural Montana, expose him to the charms of colloquial story-telling and colorful speech, encourage an appreciation of prose and poetry, provoke his curiosity about the people and places and times that preceded him -- and who have you got?

Here is the full listing of the June Book Sense Picks, with booksellers' comments, as well as a preview of the June Notables. Independent booksellers in the Book Sense program will be receiving their June Picks fliers in the May Red Box. (The flier includes jacket images, bibliographic information, and bookseller quotes.)

There is only one Book Sense Picks deadline in May -- don't miss it!

Friday, May 5, is the deadline for nominations for the July Book Sense Picks List.

The ABA/Book Sense Lounge, Room 151 at the Washington Convention Center, will be the place for American Booksellers Association members attending this month's BookExpo America to learn about ABA products and services, as well as to meet with colleagues and check e-mail (courtesy of Booklog). Continuing the success of past years, the Lounge will also feature Book Sense Autographing sessions with some of independent booksellers' favorite authors.

In April, the American Booksellers Association began sending every store participating in the Book Sense program the monthly electronic Book Sense Marketing Newsletter on the first Wednesday of each month. The second edition of the newsletter, which encompasses both general and Book Sense-specific marketing ideas, was sent on Wednesday, May 3.

This week, Book Sense is releasing the latest History Top Ten List. The new list features titles related to the American Revolution and is the result of nominations from independent bookstores in the Book Sense program nationwide.