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Moving Forward with Internet Sales Tax Fairness
Yesterday the House Judiciary Committee, released a list of seven principles to provide a framework for future discussions on how to level the playing field.
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Costco Objects to Fixed Prices in Quebec
Costco presented its opposition Wednesday to the proposed fixed price system for books in Quebec, citing fears it would adversely affect Quebec's book sales as a whole.
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Binc Reaches Out to Colorado Booksellers
The Book Industry Charitable Foundation is alerting Colorado booksellers that have been affected by the recent floods that financial assistance is available to them.
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Bookseller Pick: 'Kiss Me Again'
Jordan Nielsen, children's book buyer at powerHouse Arena in Brooklyn, shares her enthusiasm for Rachel Vail's Kiss Me Again, releasing in paperback in December.
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Bound to Be Read for Sale
Over the weekend two stores moved closer to big changes. The eight-year-old Atlanta-based store put itself up for sale, while the long-time East Village shop will move soon.
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B&N to Open New Store in Princeton, N.J.
The chain retailer is keeping its bookstore count the same when it replaces its store at the MarketFair Mall iwith a new one at the same shopping center later this week.
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The Weekly Scorecard: Tracking Unit Print Sales for Week Ending September 8, 2013
PW's weekly look at print book sales powered by Nielsen Bookscan.
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This Week's Bestsellers: September 16, 2013
Commentary and analysis on this week's PW Bestseller Lists.
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Summer Closes on Mostly Optimistic Note
Few booksellers in PW’s post–Labor Day survey of summer sales were as upbeat as Val Stadick, owner of Main Street Books in Minot, N.D., where the state’s oil boom helped the seven-year-old bookstore bounce back from a flood two years ago.
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Podcast: Oil Mixes Well With Books
This week, Len Riggio, Barnes & Noble Inc. chairman and largest stockholder, made his first public appearance since he declined in August to purchase the chain’s retail stores.
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July Bookstore Sales Dropped 6.3%
Bookstore sales fell 6.3% in July, to $808 million, the second consecutive month that retail segment had a meaningful decline in sales compared to 2012.
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Susan Branch's Bestseller Pubbed by Hybrid
Best-known for a dozen hand-lettered books from Little, Brown, the Vineyard author and artist has sold out her first printing of 10,000 copies of a travel memoir in less than a month.
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Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Book Shop Brings Poetry and Community to New York
A new bookstore is opening in New York City, in Brooklyn's hip DUMBO neighborhood--and if that's not remarkable enough news in itself, the store will focus almost exclusively on small press poetry books.
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What's Selling at Rediscovered Books
Laura "Wally" Johnston talks about books she is happy to be handselling at Rediscovered Books in Boise, Idaho.
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The Weekly Scorecard: Tracking Unit Print Sales for Week Ending September 1, 2013
PW's weekly look at print book sales powered by Nielsen Bookscan.
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This Week's Bestsellers: September 9, 2013
Commentary and analysis on this week's PW Bestseller Lists.
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ABA Announces New Children's Institute
The ABC Children's Group at ABA will announce an anticipated expansion to its programming at Book Expo and Winter Institute with its second Children's Institute on April 6–7, 2014, in San Antonio, Tex.
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Country's Oldest LGBT Bookstore Could Close in January
Giovanni's Room in Philadelphia is up for sale, and owner Ed Hermance, age 73, is looking for a buyer to purchase it and/or the buildings by the end of the year.
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SIBA Announces Gibbs Smith as First OBAAT Publisher
Gibbs Smith has been announced as the first partner in SIBA'S One Book at a Time (OBAAT) Publisher Partnership program.
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ABA Sends 'Dear Jeff' Letter Over Supreme Court Filing
In response to Overstock and Amazon's attempt to overturn New York's highest court's decision that online retailers should collect sales tax, ABA CEO Oren Teicher explains "what retailers do."



