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Though this weekend is a holiday weekend, the deadline for reporting to the Book Sense Bestseller List remains the same. It is still Monday at 3:00 a.m. EST. (That's midnight PT.) It is crucial that everybody report this weekend, as these lists will be spotlighted to the entire bookselling and publishing community at BookExpo America next week.
There will be no Book Sense Bestseller lists for the week of June 2.
 This year marks the 10th anniversary of Book Sense publisher partner and children's book publisher, Barefoot Books, the homegrown project of two mothers, Tessa Strickland and Nancy Traversy. With previous careers in publishing and management consulting, respectively, the two founded the company in the U.K. in 1993, publishing 10 cross-cultural picture books with no other staff.
Here is the latest Children's Book Sense 76 Top Ten.
Once again, many, many thanks for all the nominations. The contributions from a wonderfully wide range of booksellers have created a rich and diverse list.
The full Children's Book Sense 76 -- with booksellers' quotes -- will be in next week's Bookselling This Week.
Looking ahead, the deadline for the July/August Book Sense 76 is May 23 -- send in those nominations! There can never be too many!
Based on sales reports from nearly 400 independent bookstores across the U.S. for the four weeks ending May 11, 2003.
From golf to the Iditarod to hiking, and, of course, baseball -- sports, exercise, and physical recreation are winning subjects with book buyers.
To reprint this list, please contact Kristen Gilligan at [email protected]. Thanks to all loyal reporters!
 Martians, murder, magic, and mayhem are thriving in California. On May 10, Mysterious Galaxy, the purveyors of the aforementioned, celebrated 10 years of bookselling as San Diego's only mystery, science fiction, fantasy, horror, and suspense specialty bookstore.
The ABA/Book Sense Booth at this year's BookExpo America -- Booth #2921 -- will be the place to go for autographed books from some of independent booksellers' favorite authors. On Friday, May 29, and Saturday, May 30, authors whose works have appeared on the Book Sense 76 lists will be available to sign their books and meet booksellers. On both days, the signings will start at 10:00 a.m., and the last signing session will begin at 4:00 p.m.
The new Book Sense Audio Series, a partnership of the American Booksellers Association and Recorded Books, LLC, is now available for ordering by ABA member stores. A description of the initial 10 titles in the series of classic and contemporary literature, reproductions of the Book Sense packaging, and order forms are now available on BookWeb.org. (To download the PDF file, click here.)
How can a regional public radio station that covers parts of seven northeastern states, including New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and New Hampshire, offer local coverage for listeners in very different communities?
The next special Book Sense feature in The New Yorker will appear in the July 14 issue, on sale July 7, and will highlight summer paperback reading. To complement the story, the magazine is once again seeking photographs of bookstores with Book Sense. All Book Sense stores are encouraged to send photographs of their stores, especially good exterior shots, by May 21.
ABA recently launched a new set of features on the Book Sense Bestseller List reporting Web site, bestsellers.bookweb.org, designed to simplify the reporting process for booksellers who choose the manual-entry method each week.
With an eye toward enjoyable summer listening for adults and kids -- and recognizing that June is National Audiobook Month -- here are the Book Sense top 10 audiobook picks.
Look for the pad of fliers coming to you in the May white box. And, again, many thanks to all the booksellers who sent in nominations and helped create this strong list.
Book Sense and The Minute Maid division of The Coca-Cola Company have teamed up to create an in-store Book Club Sweepstakes that aims to drive consumers participating in reading groups to independent bookstores with Book Sense. The national sweepstakes promotion, the BACARDI® Mixers & Book Sense Book Club Sweepstakes, will start in July and run for four months. It is expected that the promotions will drive traffic to Book Sense stores and raise awareness of the Book Sense brand.
Based on the last four weeks of sales of nearly 400 independent bookstores across America.
After a month of activities in honor of National Poetry Month, Book Sense is pleased to publish Part 2 of Chapter and Verse: The Book Sense Poetry Bestseller List. (Part 1 can be found at http://news.bookweb.org/read/1297).
Thanks to all the stores that report!
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Independent bookstores act as community anchors; they serve a unique role in promoting the open exchange of ideas, enriching the cultural life of communities, and creating economically vibrant neighborhoods.
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