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Roxanne Coady and staff donned party hats for the occasion. PhotoTricia Bohan.
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The April 10 Greater Houston TeenBookCon proved that "yes indeed, Houston can put on some great events," said Cathy Berner. As the events coordinator and children's/young adult specialist at Blue Willow Bookshop, Berner was one of the festival's organizers.
Beginning this week, ABA member bookstores have access to Harper's magazine's "New Books" feature, which had previously been available to Harper's subscribers only.
Michael Tucker, of San Francisco's Books Inc., is on the ABA Board of Directors ballot for approval by membership for a second one-year term as ABA president. Ballots must be submitted electronically by midnight on April 26.
 Michael Tucker is president/CEO and co-owner of Books Inc., which has 12 locations throughout California, including Compass Books and Bzinc at the San Francisco International Airport.
HarperCollins Vice President for Independent Retailing Carl Lennertz has pulled together a second collection of regional essays inspired by State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America (edited by Matt Weiland and Sean Wilsey, Ecco). Booksellers and librarians from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Alaska contributed to the Pacific Northwest Reader, which is available now. The first regional collection, the Great Lakes Reader, was published last year.
Shelf talkers for each of the 2010 Indies Choice Book Award winners and honor books are now available for download in PDF format on BookWeb.org.
Four shelf talkers easily print on a single 8-1/2" x 11" piece of paper. Each proclaims "winner" or "honor award" and features the title, author, and publisher, along with the award category and the Indies Choice Book Awards logo. A few general Indies Choice Book Award "winner" shelf talkers round out the offerings.
This week, the American Booksellers Association began adding state-specific fact sheets to the E-Fairness Action Kit (E-FACT) on BookWeb.org, ABA's member website. Fact sheets are now available for California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Mexico, and Tennessee. Over the next month, ABA will add fact sheets for each of the states that collect sales tax but do not yet have e-fairness laws.
The Book Shop Marks 50 Years
The Book Shop, a used bookstore in Hayward, California, recently reached its 50th birthday. The store is on its third set of owners: Carl and Marilyn Baker-Madsen and Sherman and Alison Lewis bought the bookstore last summer. The store was founded by Ken and Virginia MacKenzie, and previously owned by Hank Maschal.
IndieBound to Launch in U.K. Next Week
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