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December 15, 2005 adjourn next week. TABLE OF CONTENTS: According to published reports, Sen. Bill Frist (R-TN), the majority • Senate Vote on Patriot Act Report Expected leader, is currently considering options if the cloture motion fails. Tomorrow ......................................................... 1 The Associated Press reported on Wednesday that Frist "was • Book Sense Announces 2005's Best of the preparing to bring up his own legislation to extend the current Patriot Act for a year, according to a senior Frist aide who spoke on Best .................................................................. 2 condition of anonymity." According to the Washington Post , the • Enhancement Allows Uploading of Files to vote for cloture is too close to predict an outcome. Opponents of BookWeb's Education Forum ........................... 2 the conference report are supporting a three-month extension. • Hotel ABA Rooms in D.C. Nearly Sold Out ...... 3 The American Booksellers Association and its partners in the • BTW News Briefs ............................................. 3 Campaign for Reader Privacy (CRP) -- the American Library • Page & Palette Owner Continues the Fight Association, the Association of American Publishers and PEN American Center -- are asking supporters to contact their senators Against Wal-Mart .............................................. 4 today to urge them to support Feingold's and Sununu's efforts to • Winter Institute Registration Continues ............ 4 ensure the appropriate changes are made to the USA Patriot Act. • Visa Check/MasterMoney Claims Deadline (For contact information for your elected representatives, go to the Approaches ...................................................... 4 Senate website 2 .) • Bookstore Sales Decline in October ................. 5 "We understand that this is the busiest time of the year for our • Friend's Dream Will Live On ............................. 5 members," said ABA COO Oren Teicher. "But we cannot express • Bookstore Tourism Goes Nonprofit in January strongly enough how important we believe it is that each of our members take just a moment to contact their senators to ask them to .......................................................................... 6 support Feingold's and Sununu's efforts. If there was ever a time to • Making Booksellers TitleSmart ......................... 7 get involved, this is it." While the conference report does contain a number of hard-fought BOOK SENSE THIS WEEK compromises (such as four-year sunsets for Sections 215 and 206 • The Book Sense "Beach Book" (Mass Market and the "lone wolf" provision), it does not limit bookstore and library searches to the records of people who are suspected of Binding) Bestseller List ..................................... 7 terrorism. As a result, the FBI would continue to have the power to • Correction ......................................................... 8 search the records of anyone, even individuals not suspected of a crime, if it asserts the records are "relevant" to a terrorism MARKETPLACE investigation. • Classifieds ........................................................ 8 "If we enact the bill as written, a little bit of the liberty tree will • Other Advertising .............................................. 9 have died," Rep. James McGovern (D-MA) told AP . As it currently stands, the conference report does not include the Senate provision limiting searches to the records of suspected terrorists. The conference bill outlines a new procedure that would Senate Vote on Patriot Act Report allow recipients of Section 215 orders to challenge them in the Expected Tomorrow secret FISA court, but the rules for filing an appeal have been left to the FISA court to determine. December 15, 2005 -- Campaign for Reader Privacy Calls Supporters to Action CRP is urging its supporters to call the Washington offices of both their senators today. In particular, CRP is particularly anxious to The U.S. House of Representatives approved the USA Patriot Act generate calls to the following senators who have not indicated how conference committee report on Wednesday by a vote of 251 to they will vote: 174 1 . However, the fate of the measure remains uncertain because • Alaska: Ted Stevens (R) (202) 224-3004 a bipartisan group of senators -- including Russell Feingold (D-WI) • Arkansas: Blanche Lincoln (D) (202) 224-4843 and Mark Pryor and John Sununu (R-NH) -- has promised to block a final vote on (D) (202) 224-2353 the measure with a filibuster. The Senate leadership, which • Connecticut: Joseph Lieberman (D) (202) 224-4041 supports the conference report, will attempt to prevent a filibuster • Delaware: Thomas Carper (D) (202) 224-2441 by passing a cloture motion tomorrow morning. If the cloture • Florida: Bill Nelson (D) (202) 224-5274 motion does not receive the votes of 60 senators, advocates of the • Idaho: Mike Crapo (R) (202) 224-6142 conference report will have to agree to a temporary extension of the • Indiana: Evan Bayh (D) (202) 224-5623 and Richard Lugar (R) provisions of the Patriot Act or allow Section 215 and other (202) 224-4814 provisions to expire on December 31. Congress is scheduled to • Kansas: Sam Brownback (R) (202) 224-6521 © 2005 American Booksellers Association. http://news.bookweb.org/ 1 BOOKSELLING THIS WEEK December 15, 2005 • Louisiana: Mary Landrieu (D) (202) 224-5824 director of Book Sense marketing. "Or, a store can choose to • Maine: Susan Collins (R) (202) 224-2523 and Olympia Snowe separate out the children's lists. It's up to the bookseller." (R) (202) 224-5344 Considering the list represents what have been the year's top-selling • Montana: Conrad Burns (R) (202) 224-2644 and Max Baucus titles in independent bookstores, Smith noted that Book Sense (D) (202) 224-2651 wanted to provide booksellers with not only a list of great titles, but • Nebraska: Ben Nelson (D) (202) 224-6551 "a versatile marketing tool that can help booksellers drive sales." • New York: Charles Schumer (D) (202) 224-6542 and Hillary Clinton (D) (202) 224-4451 Smith explained, "The stores know how much their customers love • North Dakota: Kent Conrad (D) (202) 224-2043 and Byron lists, and year-end lists are great for finding those books with 'legs.' Dorgan (D) (202) 224-2551 There are myriad ways to use the Book Sense 2005 Bestsellers list • Ohio: Michael DeWine (R) (202) 224-2315 and George in the store. In addition to grouping the pages into a poster form, Voinovich (R) (202) 224-3353 another idea is to make copies of one or more of the fliers and • Oklahoma: Tom Coburn (R) (202) 224-5754 make them available at the cash wrap, or to use a particular list as a • Oregon: Gordon Smith (R) (202) 224-3753 bag-stuffer." • Rhode Island: Lincoln Chafee (R) (202) 224-2921 Furthermore, a store could display the year's bestsellers in a • South Dakota: Tim Johnson (D) (202) 224-5842 prominent location in the store, using the colorful PDFs as a • Virginia: George Allen (R) (202) 224-4024 backdrop to the display. This would also work well as a window • West Virginia: Robert Byrd (D) (202) 224-3954 display, Smith noted. "Plus, year-end lists are great hooks for local media, and are equally effective when they are included in the Finally, CRP is asking participants to make calls to the leaders of store's printed or e-mail newsletter." the Senate fight against the conference report to indicate strong support for their position and to express thanks for their leadership For the Book Sense 2005 Bestsellers List in both PDF and text in the fight to restore reader privacy: format, click here 10 . • Alaska: Lisa Murkowski (R) (202) 224-6665 To use the PDFs to create a large poster-effect, booksellers should • California: Dianne Feinstein (D) (202) 224-3841 place the Hardcover Fiction, top left; Hardcover Nonfiction, top • Colorado: Ken Salazar (D) (202) 224-5852 right; Paperback Fiction, middle left; Paperback Nonfiction, middle • Florida: Mel Martinez (R) (202) 224-3041 right; Children's Fiction, bottom left; and Children's Illustrated, • Idaho: Larry Craig (R) (202) 224-2752 bottom right. • Illinois: Dick Durbin (D) (202) 224-2152 and Barack Obama (D) (202) 224-2854 Questions or inquiries regarding the Book Sense 2005 Bestsellers 11 • Massachusetts: Edward Kennedy (D) (202) 224-4543 and John list should be addressed to Smith at [email protected] . 12 F. Kerry (D) (202) 224-2742 --David Grogan • Michigan: Carl Levin (D) (202) 224-6221 • Nebraska: Chuck Hagel (R) (202) 224-4224 Enhancement Allows Uploading of Files • Nevada: Harry Reid (D) (202) 224-3542 • New Hampshire: John Sununu (R) (202) 224-2841 to BookWeb's Education Forum • Vermont: Patrick Leahy (D) (202) 224-4242 December 14, 2005 -- ABA member booksellers may now share • West Virginia: Jay Rockefeller (D) (202) 224-6472 Word files, PDFs, and other documents relating to professional • Wisconsin: Russ Feingold (D) (202) 224-5323 development through a simple upload process on BookWeb's Idea Exchange Education Forum 13 . ABA has enabled this function to For contact information for your elected representatives, go to the allow booksellers to share ideas, best business practices, forms, Senate website. lists, and other resource materials that may exist in different http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm formats. 3 "ABA developed this file upload feature as part of its ongoing commitment to find as many ways as possible to bring education Book Sense Announces 2005's Best of and professional development content to our members," said