Every week dozens of booksellers seek and share advice and information about bookselling and the book industry on BookWeb's Idea Exchange Forums [4]. Here, BTW presents a look at some of this week's topics -- with the hope that more booksellers will join in.

The Bookseller-to-Bookseller Forum has been very lively this week, with new threads about the Book Sense Gift Card program; a congratulations to BookPeople for being named PW's 2005 Bookseller of the Year; a warning regarding a Harry Potter e-book scam; a discussion of Harry Potter sidelines; an inquiry regarding an alternative to Cinderella; changes to Pleasant Company's customer service; an inquiry regarding maps; and the new 13-digit ISBN. In addition, booksellers have added responses to a number of older threads on the forum.

The Idea Exchange Forums are open to ABA bookstore and provisional members only. (Booksellers who do not already have a BookWeb Account will need to create one [5].) The greater the number of booksellers participating in the forums, the more useful they become as an educational tool for the whole independent bookselling community.