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At its fall trade show, the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association (NCIBA) began offering its members NCIBA- and San Francisco Locally Owned Merchants Association-branded "informational coupons" that highlight the benefits of shopping locally.
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Rainy Day Books of Fairway, Kansas, launched an e-mail campaign this week that seeks to keep a developer from bringing a Borders Books & Music to the new Gateway development in nearby Mission. A day after the e-mail went out, the developer, The Cameron Group of East Syracuse, New York, acknowledged it had previously talked with Borders about the development, but denied it has any deal to bring the chain bookstore to its new mix-use development.
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This week, the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) announced the launch of its Big Box Tool Kit, a new online resource for citizens groups working to stop sprawling big-box development, change their community's land use and economic development policies, and expand locally owned businesses.
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The past few years have seen an increase in the number of communities whose residents and businesses have banded together to fight against proposed big box development. In California, state Sen. Richard Alarcon (D-San Fernando Valley) has taken this battle one step further with two bills designed to assist local governments in their battles to keep big box retailers, such as Wal-Mart, out of their towns.
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The American Booksellers Association has created a list of 28 notable titles on the importance of building and strengthening vibrant local economies.
Ranging from informative accounts about the true cost of chain mega-retailers to exposes about the fast food industry and the politics of globalization, all of the titles chosen were highlighted by independent booksellers as especially timely and significant.
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It's not often that consumers take it upon themselves to form an independent business alliance, but for Suzie Johnson ensuring that Bozeman, Montana, maintained its unique character was very important. So, several years ago, when she found out just how crucial it is for communities to support local independent business, she acted. In 2002, she founded the Gallatin Valley Independent Business Alliance, for which she now serves as president.
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On November 18, the Saturday before Thanksgiving, communities around the country will celebrate America Unchained! -- a national event sponsored by the American Independent Business Alliance (AMIBA), that urges communities to "unchain themselves" and to shop only at locally owned independent businesses for the day.
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The New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association (NAIBA) has partnered with the American Independent Business Alliance (AMIBA) in an effort to help its members create independent business alliances. NAIBA will help subsidize the cost of AMIBA membership for 11 members' independent business alliances and will sponsor AMIBA "road tours."
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Penny Latham of Paperback Writer, a bookstore in White Stone, Virginia, didn't have to be in the business long to figure out how important an independent business alliance is to local retailers and to the economic viability of a community. Latham, who also owns Penny Lane, an antiques store in White Stone, opened Paperback Writer in December 2005.
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About ABA
The American Booksellers Association, a national not-for-profit trade organization, works with booksellers and industry partners to ensure the success and profitability of independently owned book retailers, and to assist in expanding the community of the book.
Independent bookstores act as community anchors; they serve a unique role in promoting the open exchange of ideas, enriching the cultural life of communities, and creating economically vibrant neighborhoods.
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