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"The Frontline Booksellers' Summer Picks," part of the programming at last month's BookExpo America, featured a panel of independent booksellers who each highlighted a handful of their top spring/summer picks. The panel included Mark LaFramboise of Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C.; Laura Grey of Shaman Drum Bookshop in Ann Arbor, Michigan; Kari Patch of Harvard Bookstore in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Jessica Stockton of McNally Robinson in New York City; and Stuart Hecht of The Book Vault in Wallingford, Connecticut.
 A podcast of John Updike's speech at the Saturday, May 20, Book & Author Breakfast at BookExpo America (BEA) is now available through the BEA website, www.bookexpoamerica.com, or by going directly to www.bookexpocast.com. Updike, who had been expected to talk about his new book, Terrorist (Knopf), instead delivered a passionate address about books and booksellers.
The venue was new, but many familiar faces were traversing the multilevel Washington Convention Center from Thursday to Sunday throughout last week's BookExpo America. This year, 573 ABA member stores were preregistered for the show, representing approximately one-third of all member bookstores, making this the largest percentage of total membership at the trade show in recent memory.
 Reports presented to American Booksellers Association members at the ABA Annual Meeting on Friday, May 19, at BookExpo America are available to all members in a PDF document on the association's trade website, BookWeb.org.
"Creating Effective E-Newsletters," part of the American Booksellers Association's Thursday Day of Education at BookExpo America, covered everything from creating a template for a store's first e-newsletter to advertising author events and livening up stale newsletters with promises of "free monkeys." More than 50 booksellers attended the late-afternoon session featuring panelists Kelly Justice of Fountain Bookstore in Richmond, Virginia, and Margie Scott Tucker of Books
Thursday afternoon's sessions for children's booksellers at BookExpo America were sponsored by the Children's Booksellers and Publishers Committee: A cooperative committee of the American Booksellers Association (ABA), the Association of Booksellers for Children (ABC), and the Children's Book Council (CBC)
On Friday, May 19, at BookExpo America in Washington, D.C., the Book Industry Study Group (BISG), announced some of the key findings in its recent study, Book Industry TRENDS 2006. This year's TRENDS takes a "giant step forward," said Angela Bole, BISG's marketing and communications manager, because it now includes extensive primary research with publishers whose annual revenues are under $50 million.
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Booksellers who have not yet signed up to participate in the American Booksellers Association's first-ever Legislative Day on Wednesday, May 17, may still do so.
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 From Wednesday, May 17, through Friday, May 19, ABA member booksellers are invited to evening receptions sponsored by Book Sense Publisher Partners at Hotel ABA, the Doubletree Crystal City. The receptions will run from 9:00 p.m. until midnight each night.
Olsson's Books & Records, which has five stores in the Washington, D.C. area, has special events planned for BookExpo America attendees. At the Lansburgh/Penn Quarter store, just a few short blocks from the Washington Convention Center, Olsson's, The Perseus Books Group, and Capital Books will host a reception with light refreshments and drinks on Thursday, May 18, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
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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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