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 Comedian and author Bill Maher will perform for an audience of booksellers and other book industry professionals at this year's BookExpo America Book Industry Foundation Benefit. The exclusive, "closed" appearance on Saturday, June 4, at New York City's The Town Hall will benefit the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE) and the Association of American Publishers Get Caught Reading Campaign.
 At this year's BookExpo America, to be held from June 2 - 5 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City, author and bookstore consultant Kate Whouley is hoping to help booksellers put a finger on what has always been an elusive, yet crucial, retail element: ambience -- that certain something that keeps customers coming back to the store.
 When Steven Sorrentino quit his job as vice president and executive director of publicity at HarperCollins to write his memoir, it was a remarkably bold move.
Booksellers and other industry professionals attending ABA's Celebration of Bookselling at this year's BookExpo America (BEA) will be treated to an event hosted by multitalented performer Al Franken.
At this month's meeting of the American Booksellers Association's Board of Directors, the Board approved the report of the ABA Nominating Committee, chaired by ABA Board member Suzanne Staubach of UConn Co-op in Storrs, Connecticut. The Committee presented the Board with the names of three candidates for three-year terms (2005 - 2008) as directors on the Board. (Under the current ABA bylaws, each year three members of the nine-member Board come to the end of their terms.)
Independent bookstores in New York State's Hudson Valley were featured in the December issue of Chronogram: A Mid-Hudson Magazine of Events and Ideas, a widely distributed free publication. Nina Shengold, author of the piece, entitled "Best-Sellers" focused on two of the region's bookstores -- Ariel Booksellers in New Paltz and Oblong Books & Music in Millerton and Rhinebeck, and, in a sidebar to the article listed an impressive 11 Book Sense bookstores located in the region, several with multiple locations.
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On January 12, free speech advocate Gordon Conable died suddenly of a heart attack at his home in Riverside, California. He was 58 years old. Conable was president of the American Library Association's Freedom to Read Foundation (FRTF) since 1998. He was also an ALA Council member and an executive for Library Systems and Services (LSSI).
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American Booksellers Association is a national trade association that supports and advocates for the success of independent bookstores. We provide members with education, networking opportunities, advocacy, resources, and technology. In turn our members support local schools through book fairs, donations and author visits; promote literacy; provide inclusive community centers; connect readers and books; add character to neighborhoods; champion and center diverse and new voices; and contribute to the local economy. We feel honored to support them in their work.
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"I'm a big romantic at heart," said Charlie Stella -- a statement that might startle readers of this Brooklyn-raised author, whose four published novels, including the just-released Cheapskates (Carroll & Graf), describe the often quite unromantic doings of various small-time East Coast hoods and hustlers.
David Klinghoffer recalled a letter he had received from a prominent evangelical Christian and pro-Israel activist. It was an invitation for Klinghoffer -- author of Why the Jews Rejected Jesus: The Turning Point in Western History (Doubleday) -- to come over for a kosher dinner, and to discuss a matter that had been on the gentleman's mind for a long time. 
