Book Sense

The downloadable PDF flier of July "We Also Recommend" titles, which includes bibliographic information, jacket images, and booksellers' quotations, is now available (click here). Titles on the July Book Sense Picks fliers, which were sent to stores with Book Sense in the June Red Box, can be reviewed at news.bookweb.org/read/2648.

Nutella® is teaming up with Book Cash, the nationwide program coordinated by the Properties Group, for a new promotion that offers consumers who purchase a jar of its hazelnut spread (13 oz. size or larger) a coupon to receive a $5 Book Cash check. The Book Cash check, good for $5 off the purchase price of a book, is valid until December 31, 2004. Booksellers must deposit Nutella Book Cash checks by January 14, 2005.

Alibi Books in Glenview, Illinois, is a six-year-old testament to family synergy. Sisters Lori Kraft and Sheri Zalewski are the store's co-owners and their mother, Roberta Kraft, helped plan the store and works there as well. Alibi specializes in mysteries and also carries general fiction, bestsellers, and children's books, in a space measuring under 1,000 square feet.

Based on reporting from hundreds of independent bookstores across the U.S. for the four-week period ending June 20, 2004.

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

Attention Media: Please contact Kristen Gilligan at [email protected] for reprint guidelines for your newspaper or magazine.

The July 5 issue of The New Yorker, on sale June 28, features a special insert, "Book Sensibility: Celebrating the Fifth Anniversary of Book Sense." The insert is an ode to the uniqueness and rich character of independent booksellers, their importance to the book industry, and of course, Book Sense. Preceding and following the insert are full-page Book Sense ads.

BookSense.com is now offering Book Sense marketing program members the chance to launch their own BookSense.com Web site -- free of charge, with no obligation to continue after the free trial ends. The BookSense.com Free Trial Offer, which began June 1 and runs through September 30, 2004, offers booksellers a chance to test this valuable online sales and marketing tool.

On the first day of summer, National Public Radio's special correspondent Susan Stamberg turned to three independent booksellers for their top picks for "best beach reads." Stamberg, who regularly devotes segments to interviews with independent booksellers around the country, hosted the Morning Edition story, "An Independent View of Summer Reading: Bookstore Owners Offer Lists of Literary Picks," which featured booksellers representing the South, Midwest, and West.