Specialty Bookselling

02 Oct

More Intriguing Kennedy Titles to Supplement Book Sense 76 JFK Top Ten

Last week, Book Sense announced the Autumn 2003 Top Ten JFK Picks. The list is based on the nominations of independent booksellers nationwide and is the second time Book Sense has compiled a list in association with The History Channel, which will air a week of specially themed programming focusing on JFK and his times next month. November 22 will mark 40 years since the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

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01 Oct

The Book Sense Music Literature Bestseller List

Based on four weeks of sales ended September 28, 2003, at hundreds of independent bookstores across the U.S.

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

Attention Media: Please contact Kristen Gilligan at [email protected] for reprint guidelines for your newspaper or magazine.

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01 Oct

Teen Book Market in Flux

This is the third in a series of four articles looking at the results of the recently released 2002 Consumer Research Study on Book Purchasing, conducted by Ipsos BookTrends and published by the Book Industry Study Group (BISG). This week's focus is the teen (14 to 17 years old) book market.

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29 Sep

Introducing Femmes Fatales to a New Generation

Hard-boiled noir, taboo lesbian romances, radical science fiction, and other forms of pulp fiction written by women can be found in a new series called Femmes Fatales: Women Write Pulp, which was recently launched by The Feminist Press at the City University of New York.

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25 Sep

Autumn 2003 Book Sense 76 Top Ten JFK Picks

This week, Book Sense is announcing the latest Book Sense 76 Top Ten list, the Autumn 2003 Top Ten JFK Picks.

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18 Sep

The 2003 Halloween Book Sense 76 Top Ten


Here are the independent booksellers' picks for the top ten Halloween titles for the fall. This list of children's and adult titles was developed by Book Sense in collaboration with the Association of American Publishers' Get Caught Reading initiative. Look for more such lists in the upcoming months, and many thanks to all the independent booksellers who contributed a wealth of enthusiastic nominations for this list. Pads of the list are included in the September White Box mailing.

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18 Sep

The Book Sense Biography and Memoir Bestseller List

Based on four weeks of sales ended September 14, 2003, at hundreds of independent bookstores across the U.S.

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

Attention Media: Please contact Kristen Gilligan at [email protected] for reprint guidelines for your newspaper or magazine.

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17 Sep

Children's Book Market Suffers Decline

This is the second of four articles looking at the results of the recently released 2002 Consumer Research Study on Book Purchasing, conducted by Ipsos BookTrends and published by the Book Industry Study Group (BISG). This week's focus is the children's book market (13 years old and under).

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04 Sep

The Wit, Satire, and Humor Book Sense Bestseller List

Based on four weeks of sales ended August 31, 2003, at hundreds of independent bookstores across the U.S.

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

Attention Media: Please contact Kristen Gilligan at [email protected] for reprint guidelines for your newspaper or magazine.

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04 Sep

Esme Raji Codell Expounds on Potato Pedagogy and the Power of Books

Esme Raji Codell, and yes, she was named for Salinger's Esme -- came to national attention with her first book, Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Year (Algonquin). The insightful, funny, unbelievably energetic Codell began her first year of teaching in an underachieving, charmless public school in a very poor section of Chicago. She chronicled the experience and gave readers a glimpse of what a gifted teacher can do even in the humblest environments.

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28 Aug

The Autumn 2003 Children's Book Sense 76 Top Ten

Here are the top ten titles as tallied from hundreds of nominations from independent booksellers around the country for the Autumn 2003 Children's Book Sense 76.

The full Children's Book Sense 76 -- with booksellers' quotes -- will be in next week's Bookselling This Week.

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20 Aug

The Book Sense Reference Bestseller List

Based on four weeks of sales ended August 17, 2003.

This week's Book Sense Category Bestseller List shows that books still rule in the information age.

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

Attention Media: Please contact Kristen Gilligan at [email protected] for reprint guidelines for your newspaper or magazine.

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12 Aug

The Book Sense Sci-Fi/Fantasy Bestseller List

Based on four weeks of sales from over 400 independent bookstores across America.

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

Attention Media: Please contact Kristen Gilligan at [email protected] for reprint guidelines for your newspaper or magazine.

Trade Paperback | Mass Market | Hardcover

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06 Aug

The Book Sense Animal Bestseller List

The Book Sense Animal Bestseller List for the four weeks ended August 3, 2003.

Based on sales reports from well over 400 Book Sense stores nationwide.

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

Attention Media: Please contact Kristen Gilligan at [email protected] for reprint guidelines for your newspaper or magazine.

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