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• There's no place like home

  - 2008-08-04

  The popular food movement that urges people to "eat the view," meaning food that comes from nearby farms, has found a commercial cousin in the retail world. IndieBound, a program formed by the Tarrytown-based American Booksellers Association to empower independent retailers to take advantage of the localism movement is just...

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• Big box panic: Americans have been afraid of chain stores for nearly a century, but independent outlets keep thriving

  - 2008-01-01

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ON THE CORNER of Newbury Street and Massachusetts Avenue in Boston sits one of the famed architect Frank Gehry's least inspired creations. "360 Newbury" is a big box of a building--appropriate considering that its first three floors have long housed big-box record stores-famous only as Gehry's sole...

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• Winners of the 2007 Book Sense Book of the Year Awards announced

  - 2007-04-02

  M2 BEST BOOKS-C2000-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The American Booksellers Association ABA has announced the winners of the 2007 Book Sense Book of the Year Awards. The winner of the Adult Nonfiction category was Nora Ephron's book entitled I Feel Bad About My Neck and Sara Gruen won the...

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• Publishers Weekly Offers Free Subscriptions to Qualified Booksellers

  - 2006-10-03

  NEW YORK -- Publishers Weekly today announced that it is offering free subscriptions to qualified booksellers throughout North America. This program extends the publication's reach into the book retailing marketplace, including independent booksellers, mass merchants, chain stores and specialty stores that manage, select or purchase books. For the first...

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• Book buyers are speeding up in hurry-up world

  - 2005-06-06

  NEW YORK -- As the book world winds up its annual national convention, some retailers are wondering about the fate of a cultural institution. It's not a book or a publisher, but a customer, the old-fashioned bookstore browser who picks and pokes and doesn't care about the critics or Oprah...

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• Prosecutor turns to (fictitious) crime

  - 2005-03-10

  For eight years, Michele Martinez hung out with criminals. As a federal prosecutor in New York City, she battled Mexican cocaine cartels smuggling drug money out of the country, fought Burmese warlords secreting hundreds of kilos of heroin into the USA and got the upper hand on crack dealers operating...

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• Book Sense

  - 2004-10-01

  http://www.booksense.com/ For those who appreciate the expertise and personal attention offered by their local independent or specialty bookstore, this site is a wonderful respite from the usual blockbuster fare. Managed by the American Booksellers Association, it began with a bestseller list driven less by sales and more by bookseller...

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• Tarrytown campus glitters for Diamond

  - 2004-08-16

  Diamond Properties of Valhalla has snapped up its second Westchester office campus in the past two months with its purchase of the American Booksellers Association ABA campus in Tarrytown. The 104-year-old nonprofit will remain on the campus, on Route 9 (828 South Broadway) but will now lease from Diamond the...

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• Central Ohio bookstores report health sales of Clinton autobiography.

  - 2004-06-23

  By Tami Abdollah, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 23--Bill Clinton's autobiography, which hit store shelves yesterday, is being touted as this summer's Harry Potter. But the former president will need a lot of Potter's magic to ...

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• Booksellers rate memorable reads

  - 2004-04-08

  More than 1,000 independent booksellers, members of the American Booksellers Association, recently cast votes for the books they most enjoy recommending. The titles are part of Book Sense 76 (booksense.com), the association's 5-year-old list of bookseller favorites. The 25 winners listed alphabetically by title in each category were chosen from...

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• ABA and Publishers Weekly join forces

  - 2004-02-20

  M2 BEST BOOKS-C2000-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The American Booksellers Association ABA has teamed up with industry magazine Publishers Weekly PW to provide vital industry information to its members via the PW magazine and website. PW reaches 200,000 industry professionals and will provide the ABA with advertising space throughout...

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• ABA and Publishers Weekly join forces

  - 2004-02-20

  M2 BEST BOOKS-C2000-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The American Booksellers Association ABA has teamed up with industry magazine, Publishers Weekly PW, to provide vital industry information to its members via the PW magazine and website. PW reaches 200,000 industry professionals and will provide the ABA with advertising space throughout...

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• R.R. Bowker Assumes Operations of Pubnet

  - 2003-01-09

  Business Editors NEW PROVIDENCE, N.J.--BUSINESS WIRE--Jan. 9, 2003 R.R. BowkerR, one of the world's leading publishers of bibliographic information, today announced that it has assumed management responsibility for Pubnet, the book industry's electronic commerce service that allows booksellers to order titles directly from publishers and wholesalers. Although...

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• Are You Experienced? - Music licensing for the Uninitiated

  BNET - 2002-05-30

  The article is refers to music licenses. The CSR who called works for one of the three major performing rights organizations, ASCAP, BMI, or SESAC, which license performance rights for most of the music copyright holders in the United States and represent foreign copyright holders as well. These organizations, which...

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• Seattle's Independent Bookstores Stay Alive by Reading the Market, Customers.

  - 2002-05-11

  By Marc Ramirez, The Seattle Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 11--Saws are buzzing and dust flying in Ravenna, where Third Place Books is writing the latest chapter in what might be called The Fate of the Independent Bookstore. Here, on the...

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• R.R. Bowker To Acquire PubNet; Company To Purchase Remaining 75 Percent of ``Direct Ordering'' E-Commerce Service from Leading Trade Associations

  - 2002-05-03

  Business Editors NEW PROVIDENCE, N.J.--BUSINESS WIRE--May 3, 2002 R.R. Bowker, a leading publisher of bibliographic information and one of the most venerable names in the publishing industry, today announced that it has agreed to acquire PubNet, an electronic commerce service that allows booksellers to order titles directly from...

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• Independent booksellers announce national finalists

  - 2002-03-24

  Byline: The Register-Guard The American Booksellers Association, representing independent booksellers, has announced finalists for Book Sense Book of the Year Awards. The winners will be announced May 3 during BookExpo America in New York City. The finalists: Adult Fiction: "The Corrections" by...

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• Don DeLillo's bum luck: The novelist's low status in an age of cultural proliferation - Cultures & Reviews - Brief Article

  - 2001-05-01

  In February, a literary event of no small significance occurred. Don DeLillo, arguably America's finest living novelist still in full control of his talents -- and inarguably one of the most important and respected writers of the past 30 years -- released his 12th work of fiction, a novella called...

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• Santa Cruz, Calif.-Based Litigant for Independent Bookstores Drops Case.

  - 2001-04-21

  By David L. Beck, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 21--"It's hard," said Neal Coonerty, the day after his American Booksellers Association gave up its court battle on behalf of independent bookstores against big chains. "I was the person...

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• Independent Booksellers Settle Lawsuit against Barnes & Noble, Borders.

  - 2001-04-20

  By Kelly Pate, The Denver Post Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 20--Denver's Tattered Cover Book Store and other independent booksellers have ended a three-year court battle against Barnes & Noble Inc. and Borders Group Inc. The nation's two largest book chains each...

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