BTW Articles

21 Mar

Shelf Talking -- Know Your Book Sense Coordinators

Ruminator Books, the venerable St. Paul bookstore, now with a Minneapolis location as well, was an original participant in the Book Sense program. It also signed on to BookSense.com when that became an option.

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21 Mar

Book Sense Welcomes Its First International Publisher Partner

Book Sense is pleased to welcome Oneworld Publications, based in Oxford, England, as its first international Publisher Partner. Oneworld is distributed in the U.S. by National Book Network.

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21 Mar

Blume, Hamill, Rosenblatt, Zelinsky Join ABFFE Author Auction

Bestselling authors Judy Blume, Pete Hamill, Roger Rosenblatt, and Paul Zelinsky have added their names to the list of authors who will participate in next week's online auction sponsored by the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE).

The ABFFE Author Auction will give booksellers a chance to get to know 15 of their favorite authors, including Michael Moore, author of Stupid White Men ... and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation, which is now topping many bestseller lists.

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21 Mar

Perseus Books and Running Press to Merge

On March 14, Perseus Books Group (PBG) and Running Press announced an agreement to merge the two houses. The result will be one of the largest independent trade book publishing companies in North America. "This merger will bring together two entrepreneurial success stories in the world of publishing," Jack McKeown, CEO of PBG, said in a press release.

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21 Mar

Spotlight on the Book Sense Book of the Year Adult Fiction Nominees

Finalists for the Book Sense Book of the Year were announced on February 13. Detailed below are the finalists in the Adult Fiction category.

The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

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21 Mar

Navigating the BEA Web Site -- Pre-Registration Deadline Nears

BookExpo America’s Web site at www.bookexpoamerica.com is up and running, and it features up-to-the-minute information on all aspects of the show to help booksellers start planning for BEA. The pre-registration deadline for ABA bookstore members is April 4. (This does not apply to associate members.) The cost per badge for ABA bookstore members is $55 prior to April 4 and $90 thereafter (which includes onsite sales).

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21 Mar

African-American Booksellers Conference at BEA Sets Schedule

This year’s African-American Booksellers Conference at BEA will highlight featured authors, prominent figures, and panels geared to helping stores increase profitability. The programming is set for Thursday, May 2, at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City. Emma Rodgers, owner of Black Images Book Bazaar in Dallas, told BTW that "we think we have a very strong lineup of authors and some very good workshops for booksellers.

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22 Mar

Honey, They Shrunk the Book Review Section … Again

The downsizing of America’s newspaper book coverage continues. The Philadelphia Inquirer recently pared its Sunday book coverage to one page of reviews included in the newspaper’s arts and entertainment section. This is just the most recent in a series of reductions, according to Frank Wilson, who has edited the Inquirer’s book section since October 2000. At that time, Wilson told BTW, the book section was reduced from a six-page stand-alone section to a four-page stand-alone section.

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22 Mar

ABA Chicago Forum a High-Level Discussion on Strategic Plan

On March 20, at Transitions Learning Center -- the event space for Transitions Bookplace -- in Chicago, 37 booksellers attended an ABA Booksellers Forum from noon – 2:00 p.m. and, later, 27 attended a financial seminar presented by ABA CEO Avin Mark Domnitz, from 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Regarding the forum, ABA’s Domnitz said that booksellers attending were "deeply engaged … It was one of the best discussions of strategic planning we have had at any of the forums."

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25 Mar

2002 FAB Award Nominees Announced

Nominees for the seventh annual Firecracker Alternative Book (FAB) Awards, have been announced. The awards honor the best in alternative publishing in such categories as Sex, Drugs, Music, Graphic Novel, and Zine in addition to the traditional categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poety. The deadline for votes is April 20, and awards will be presented at BookExpo America on May 3 in New York City.

Among this year’s nominees are:

FICTION

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