Specialty Bookselling

Based on sales in independent bookstores with Book Sense nationwide for the eight-week period ending December 17, 2006.

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.

The Winter 2006/2007 Book Sense Children's Picks list can now be previewed online. Independent bookstores with Book Sense will begin receiving the Children's Picks fliers, which are being mailed directly from the printer, within the next week. Additional copies may be requested via e-mail to [email protected].

Beginning in 2007, Book Sense will augment its current monthly Red and White Box programs with a series of quarterly mailings of materials specifically geared toward children's booksellers. In addition, the Book Sense Children's Picks will expand from three to four lists annually, with the creation of a new spring list.

For the eight-week period ending October 22, 2006, and based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores 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.

Sixteen years ago, Mary Alice Gorman and her husband, Richard Goldman, decided to open an independent bookstore because a doctor suggested she find a "low stress" job.

This week Book Sense announces the 2006 Halloween Top Ten. The list is produced in conjunction with the Association of American Publishers' Get Caught Reading initiative and is based on the nominations of independent booksellers nationwide.

Booksellers in the Book Sense program will be receiving the Halloween Top Ten in the September Red Box.

For a downloadable PDF file of the Halloween 2006 Top Ten, click here.

The article titled "WNBA Calls for Pannell Award Nominees" in the August 17 issue of Bookselling This Week was incorrect. The Women's National Book Association will not call for Pannell Award nominees until October, and the contact will be Mary Grey James, chair of the Pannell Award Committee.

BTW apologizes for the confusion.

Banned Books Week begins on Sunday, September 24, and once again the American Booksellers Association and the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE) have collaborated to produce a Banned Books Book Sense Top Ten, compiled from titles nominated by independent booksellers nationwide.

This week, Troubadour Books of Boulder, Colorado, is celebrating its first year in business and the start of its second. The 700-square-foot general bookstore, owned by Deb Evans, specializes in books and magazines on the performing arts, creative writing, and education and career development.

For the eight-week period ending August 6, 2006, and based on sales in hundreds of 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 ending July 23, 2006, and based on reporting from hundreds of 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 ending July 9, 2006, and based on reporting from independent bookstores with Book Sense nationwide.

Past Category Bestseller lists are available at www.bookweb.org/read/5677.

Attention Media: Contact Meg Smith at [email protected] for reprint guidelines for your newspaper or magazine.

For the eight-week period ending June 18, 2006, and based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores with Book Sense nationwide.

Past Category Bestseller lists are available at www.bookweb.org/read/5677.

Attention Media: Contact Meg Smith at [email protected] for reprint guidelines for your newspaper or magazine.

Based on reporting from hundreds of independent bookstores with Book Sense nationwide for the eight-week period ending June 6, 2006.

Past Category Bestseller lists are available at www.bookweb.org/read/5677.

Attention Media: Contact Meg Smith at [email protected] for reprint guidelines for your newspaper or magazine.

Based on reporting by independent bookstores with Book Sense nationwide for the eight-week period ending May 21, 2006.

Past Category Bestseller lists are available at www.bookweb.org/read/5677.

Attention Media: Contact Meg Smith at [email protected] for reprint guidelines for your newspaper or magazine.