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For the eight-week period ending May 15, 2007, and based on sales in independent bookstores with Book Sense nationwide.
Past Category Bestseller lists are available on ABA's trade website, BookWeb.org.
Attention Media : Contact Meg Smith at [email protected] for reprint guidelines for your newspaper or magazine.
For the eight week-period -- including Poetry Month -- ending May 1, 2007, and based on sales in independent bookstores with Book Sense nationwide.
Past Category Bestseller lists are available on ABA's trade website, BookWeb.org.
Attention Media: Contact Meg Smith at [email protected] for reprint guidelines for your newspaper or magazine.
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 This year's winners of the Lucile Micheels Pannell Award for Excellence in Children's Bookselling, announced by the Women's National Book Association (WNBA) on May 2, are Books & Books in Miami and Coral Gables, Florida, in the general bookstore category and Wonderland Books & Toys in Rockford, Illinois, in the children's specialty category.
To help booksellers, librarians, and others in the book industry create celebrations for the fourth annual "Latino Books Month" this May, the Association of American Publishers (AAP) is offering a Latino Books Month Resource Kit, featuring reading lists, posters, and other materials to encourage communities to read books by and for Latinos, in both English and Spanish. As part of the initiative, AAP member publishers will also be holding a special author event at BookExpo America (BEA).
For the eight-week period ending April 17, 2007, and based on sales in independent bookstores with Book Sense nationwide.
Past Category Bestseller lists are available on ABA's trade website, BookWeb.org.
Attention Media: Contact Meg Smith at [email protected] for reprint guidelines for your newspaper or magazine.
 While April 1, the opening day of the baseball season, is still a few long days away, in the book-publishing world, baseball season began about two to three months ago -- that's when the year's first crop of baseball books began hitting bookstore shelves and ARCs for new releases began to litter my desk and office floor (and I mean "litter" in the best possible sense).
 The American Booksellers Association's Thursday Day of Education (at Hotel ABA, the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge in Brooklyn, New York) at BookExpo America 2007 also features programming for children's booksellers, sponsored by the Association of Booksellers for Children, and programming for college stores, sponsored by the National Associa
This year's BookExpo America program for African-American book industry professionals, sponsored by the African-American Booksellers Committee, will be held on Thursday, May 31, at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. Registration for the program, which is open to all BEA attendees, is not required.
Thursday May 31; The Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
Opening Session and Luncheon
11:30 a.m.; Room 1E12 - 1E13
It's spring! Whether you're casting about for a way to sate your wanderlust or pondering which titles to recommend to customers looking to fulfill their travel fantasies, you're covered: travel book publishers are busy tracking hot destinations and publishing books designed to please daring adventurers and armchair travelers alike.
 Here is the Spring 2007 Book Sense Picks Poetry Top Ten, based on the nominations of independent booksellers nationwide. The March Red Box will contain the Poetry Top Ten pads and a PDF of the list is available on BookWeb.
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