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The Big One is at hand. No, not the earthquake. The American Booksellers Association annual convention and trade show, to be held in Los Angeles Memorial Day weekend, May 28-31. [...]

New Orleans-Gulf South Booksellers Association Meets Fri., Sept. 9-Sun., Sept. 11, at the Clarion Hotel in New Orleans. Friday's luncheon features Carol Dawson, Roy Blount Jr. and ABA past-president Chuck [...]

NEARLY 800 booksellers gathered in Atlantic City, N.J., for the New York New Jersey and Mid-Atlantic Bookseller Associations' joint trade show, Oct. 2-3. On Monday morning, NYNIBA and MABA decided [...]

Independents finds camaraderie and a competitive edge in new associations Maybe it's fear, maybe it's even a hint of desperation, but the new competitive reality for small, independent bookstores has [...]

Through two new reading programs, presses and bookstores work together to spread the word about poetry Selling poetry used to be considered by many to be a contradiction in terms, [...]

LAUNCHED IN October at the New England Booksellers Association's fall trade show, the 'Discovery of the Month' program was intended to showcase one book a month that members agreed would [...]

CHRISTMAS SALES in bookstores, which were generally strong at the beginning of December, faltered in the final weeks and overall were mixed, a PW spot survey indicated. Some booksellers reported [...]

BOOKSTORE SALES through the middle of December are up over the same period last year, a PW spot survey of booksellers has found. At worst, some booksellers have seen a [...]

WHAT USED to be a meeting place in the '30s for the executive committee of the Times Club--a literary organization that in its heyday hosted such speakers as Countee Cullen, [...]

THOMAS GIFFORD fans have waited 19 years for the sequel to The Wind Chill Factor and this week--six weeks before Bantam releases the hardcover sequel, The First Sacrifice--the publisher will [...]

The recently relocated New York bookshop aims for a 'distinct, abstract' feel The design of the new St. Mark's Bookshop, which moved last July from St. Mark's Place to nearby [...]

Tired of working 80-100 hours a week, 72-year-old Ruth Goldrosen, owner' and manager of Chart House Books in Hyannis, Mass., on Cape Cod, announced that she will close the 15-year-old [...]

Presents books on American, Ancient and World History. Includes `Tara Revisited: Women, War, and the Plantation,' by Catherine Clinton; `Killing Kennedy: And the Hoax of the Century,' by Harrison Edward Livingstone; `Mind Control and the Assassination of President Kennedy,' by Dick Russell; `1939: The Lost World of the Fair,' by David Gelernter. INSETS: A different place.;Vietnam reflections..

Lists the participating exhibitors at the American Booksellers Association's (ABA) 1994 annual convention and trade show in Los Angeles, California. Main exhibitors; Small press exhibitors; International exhibitors; Audio and video exhibitors.

Presents highlights of the 1994 American Booksellers Association (ABA) Convention and Trade Show held in Los Angeles, California from May 28 to 31. Session called `The Competitive Environment of Bookselling'; Comparative Shopper Survey on shopper motivation commissioned by the ABA group and done by the Wirthlin Group; Introduction of multimedia through the Electronic Books sessions. INSET: Award-winning books and booksellers..

Reports on Anchor's laminated reading list as a promotion for the book `Nine Parts of Desire' and for Middle Eastern books. Favorable reaction from booksellers; Titles from the list.

Reports on the opening of a Barbara's Bestsellers bookstore in the concourse of Boston, Massachusetts' South Station, the city's main commuter train station. Books on offer; History; Success of Barbara's branches in Illinois.