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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...

  Tags: American Booksellers Association, INTERNET, memoir, Retail

• 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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