A Letter from ABA President Gayle Shanks About Indiebound July Next

June 05, 2008 Because we on the ABA Board 1 are so excited about the potential TABLE OF CONTENTS: of IndieBound, I wanted to write as soon as possible after the show • A Letter From ABA President Gayle Shanks and share a bit more about the program with those of you who couldn't be at BEA. About IndieBound ...... 1 • July Next List Debuts -- Great Reads From IndieBound is an outgrowth of our successful Book Sense marketing program, but it is not simply a "new" Book Sense. Booksellers You Trust ...... 1 Through IndieBound, we can play a unique role in a national • Boffo BEA for Indies -- Here's Proof in Pix! ...... 2 movement of booksellers, other indie businesses, readers, and local • Help ABA Help You: Complete the Day of business alliances -- a movement celebrating the values that make Education Evaluations Survey ...... 3 independent businesses unique. It will give us the tools we need to help spread the word that big is not always better, that • The July 2008 Indie Next List & Notables sustainability makes sense, and that healthy local economies help Preview ...... 3 communities thrive. And it's going to do it with humor, great • MainStreet Bookends Co-Owner Jim Mitchell graphics, and no "oughts" or "musts." IndieBound is not top down Dies ...... 5 -- you will be able to implement it in the ways that make the most • DIESEL, a Bookstore to Open in Brentwood .... 5 sense in your own community. • California and B&N Reach Settlement on Back Independent booksellers have always been catalysts in their Sales Tax ...... 6 communities for helping people take the next step in local development and growth that maintains the uniqueness of their • BookSense.com Becomes ABA E-commerce neighborhoods, and we believe that's exactly what IndieBound can Solution ...... 6 do. • Book Sense Gift Card Program Becomes ABA And IndieBound will help us sell more books. It will continue Gift Card Program ...... 7 many of Book Sense's established features, including bookseller • BTW News Briefs ...... 7 recommendations and bestseller lists. The marketing components • ABA Town Hall & Annual Membership of Book Sense have been redesigned, enlivened, and made much more consumer-friendly. If you haven't yet seen the new Meetings Recap ...... 9 IndieBound materials, I know this all may sound a bit abstract. But • BEA: Free Books and (Some) Free Food. A not to worry! By the middle of June, you will be receiving your Bookseller's Dream Come True...... 10 Literary Liberation Box, which will contain all the materials • Honored Authors Say "Thanks" to Indie (posters, decals, handouts, and more) that you and your fellow booksellers will need to launch IndieBound in your store and your Booksellers ...... 11 community. (Here's a hint: You might want first dibs on the • An Imagined Autobiography From the Author T-shirt...) of The House of God ...... 12 As I said, this is simply the beginning of the story! There will be • BISG TRENDS 2008 : Challenges Ahead ...... 13 much more coverage in BTW , and, even before the Literary Liberation Box lands in your store, I encourage you to visit 2 3 MARKETPLACE BookWeb.org and IndieBound.org and to begin exploring all the materials and resources that IndieBound offers you. And, please, do • Classifieds ...... 14 e-mail me 4 with your ideas and feedback, and I encourage you to • Other Advertising ...... 14 be in touch with Paige Poe 5 , your IndieBound outreach liaison. As your new president, I feel very lucky to be here with you at the start of this new program. A Letter From ABA President Gayle Sincerely, Shanks About IndieBound Gayle Shanks June 05, 2008 -- Dear Fellow Booksellers, ABA President Changing Hands Bookstore 6 A week ago today, the wonderfully festive Celebration of Tempe, Arizona Bookselling at BookExpo America concluded with the launch of IndieBound, our new initiative, which we believe will become a national movement celebrating the value of independent businesses July Next List Debuts -- Great Reads and the very special role that we booksellers play in our local From Booksellers You Trust communities. 7 June 05, 2008 -- The new IndieBound initiative is a

© 2008 American Booksellers Association. http://news.bookweb.org/ 1 BOOKSELLING THIS WEEK June 05, 2008 community-oriented movement -- involving booksellers, readers, buzz of sleep deprivation that characterizes the once-a-year book indie retailers, local business alliances, and others -- that proclaims sprawl of BEA. the importance of independent businesses, promotes those values Lots more coverage of ABA's educational programming is that make indies unique, and provides booksellers with help to scheduled in upcoming issues of BTW , but here's a look at the spread the passion and sell more books. highlights in pictures. One of the key tools is the Indie Next List 8 -- the successor to the Book Sense Picks List. Importantly, the Next List preserves the The more than 800 ABA members staying at Hotel ABA, the Renaissance essence of the Picks: Every title on the list is drawn from Hollywood, were greeted by association bookseller-recommended favorites. Like the Picks list, each month staff and volunteer booksellers at the the Next List will reflect the titles that independent booksellers are Welcome Desk, where they picked up most excited about handselling to their customers. their BEA badges, a show guide, and more. A nearby table featured trade The new name for the list reflects that reality: These are the titles show-related information. that will be the next big read, the next talked-about titles, and, often, the next Indie Bestsellers. As the new logo for the Next List makes clear, these are "Great Reads From Booksellers You Trust."

In addition, the graphic presentation of the Next List has been On Wednesday afternoon, refreshed and reinvigorated. The flier is now printed in full-color, booksellers gathered in the and it presents that month's number-one title on the front cover. hotel lobby to embark on a The new design -- a more compact, rectangular format when folded Red Line walking tour of -- allows for more convenient and effective in-store display and Hollywood and literary sites. merchandising, and the list still features previous selections now At the "Welcome to Hollywood" available in paperback and 20 additional "Notable" titles. Reception, sponsored by ABA and the Southern California Independent One other thing hasn't changed: Submitting nominations for titles Booksellers Association, at Grauman's to the Next List is as easy as possible. Egyptian Theatre, booksellers and Any ABA member bookseller can e-mail nominations to Southern California authors mingled.... [email protected] 9 , or they can use a convenient online nomination form 10 . (The URL has changed for the online ... enjoyed wine, supplied by ... and ate special goodies, provided by Brown-Forman, courtesy of Harry N. Da Capo Lifelong Books and Mäni's nomination form; so booksellers are encouraged to bookmark the Abrams, to celebrate Laura Holmes Bakery in honor of Mäni Naill's new new URL.) There's a whole lot more information about the Next Haddad's Anything But Chardonnay cookbook Sweet! Home Baking With List here 11 , and more information about IndieBound here 12 . (Stewart, Tabori & Chang) ... Every Kind of Natural Sugar and Sweetener .

Outgoing ABA President Russ The nomination deadline for the August Next List is Lawrence of Hamilton, Montana's Friday, June 6. Chapter One Book Store welcomed guests to the reception on behalf of "Please do send in your nominations as soon as you can and help to ensure ABA and SCIBA. that the Next List carries on -- and amplifies -- the achievements of the Book Sense Picks list," said Next List Editor-in-Chief Dan Cullen. Booksellers with comments, questions, and suggestions for the Next List should drop Cullen an 13 On Thursday, ABA's Day of e-mail . Education, sponsored by Ingram Book Group/Ingram Publisher Services, kicked off with a Plenary Session, Boffo BEA for Indies -- Here's Proof in featuring actor and environmentalist Ed Begley, Jr., author of Living Like Pix! Ed (Clarkson Potter). June 05, 2008 -- Kicking off with the unlikely -- but appealing -- combo of wine and cookies at the Egyptian Theatre and running ... "Green Retailing," with Ferris straight through to the final hours on the trade floor four days later, Among the day's 16 sessions were the Kawar, vice president of sustainability Graphic Novels panel, featuring John for Greenopia and The Green Media BookExpo America 2008 was a mega weekend for independent Shableski of Diamond Book Group, Natalie Freidberg of All booksellers. Distributors, comic artist Scott Shades of Green in Los Angeles, Suzy ABA's Day of Education on Thursday featured 16 educational McCloud, Jessica Stockton Bagnulo Staubach of University of Connecticut of New York's McNally Robinson Co-op in Storrs, Connecticut, and panels and seminars, engaging keynotes from Ed Begley, Jr. and Booksellers, and moderator Lisa moderator Oren Teicher, ABA COO Amy Goodman, and a jam-packed, festive Celebration of Winn of ABA ...... Bookselling. The big news at the Celebration was the official launch of IndieBound 14 , but there was lots of primetime IndieBound programming throughout the show, both at the busy ... and "Creating Killer Events," ABA Lounge and at a special IndieBound information session on featuring Margie Scott Tucker of San Francisco's Books Inc., Collette Saturday afternoon. And for all that was new -- including a full fall Morgan of Wild Rumpus in season of much-discussed titles -- there were also the BEA staples Minneapolis, and moderator Dan of parties (Cameron Diaz and Sean "Diddy" Combs canoodling on Cullen of ABA. the couch at the Prince party!), 24-hour book talks, and the pleasant

Jane Friedman, then-president and CEO of HarperCollins, with special lunch guest At lunchtime, incoming ABA and American literary icon Ray Bradbury. President Gayle Shanks of Changing Hands introduced Amy Goodman, co-host of Democracy Now! and co-author of Standing Up to the Following the ABA Town Hall meeting On Saturday, ABA Chief Marketing Madness: Ordinary Heroes in was the Annual Membership Meeting, Officer Meg Smith and Outreach Extraordinary Times (Hyperion). where Russ Lawrence gave his final Liaison Paige Poe presented an After a moving address, which was report as ABA president. IndieBound information session, where given a standing ovation, Goodman members learned about the program's autographed copies of her book for many different resources, including the bookseller-fans. Literary Liberation Box, soon to arrive in stores.

The day was capped by ABA's Celebration of Bookselling, where a And, of course, there was the trade packed ballroom shared in the show floor, where booksellers, presentation of the Book Sense Book of publishers, and celebrities, including the Year Awards, the Publishers Weekly Alec Baldwin, Garrison Keillor, and Bookseller and Rep of the Year Bernadette Peters gathered to discuss Awards, and the Lucile Micheels next season's hoped-for bestsellers. Pannell Awards. In a video, Children's Illustrated winner Khaled Hosseini ( A Thousand Splendid Mo Willems ( Knuffle Bunny Too: A Help ABA Help You: Complete the Day Suns , Riverhead/Penguin) accepted the Case of Mistaken Identity , Hyperion Book Sense Book of the Year Award Books for Children) said that one of the of Education Evaluations Survey for Fiction. best parts about winning was beating Jon Scieszka, who then crept up behind June 05, 2008 -- The American Booksellers Association is asking him. every bookseller who participated in its programming last week at BookExpo America for feedback on the Day of Education sessions, Clark Kepler and staff accept the Joel Sheldon, CEO and majority Pannell Award in the General Store special events, and bookseller lounge. shareholder of Vroman's, accepted the category. "We're always looking for ways to improve our educational PW Bookseller of the Year Award. programming," said ABA Chief Program Officer Len Vlahos. "But we can't do it without our members' help. We hope every ABA CEO Avin Mark Domnitz Outgoing ABA President Russ bookseller who took part in the Day of Education will take a announces the launch of IndieBound, a Lawrence and members of the ABA moment to think about their experiences and fill out the Day of new initiative designed to unite Board took to the stage to celebrate the 15 booksellers, readers, indie retailers, program's launch in their IndieBound Education Evaluations Survey on BookWeb.org. local business alliances, and others in gear. "Completing the survey will take just a few minutes, and the support of local activism and local economies and to lead an Independent feedback will help make ABA's bookseller education the best it can Revolution. be." Questions about the survey should be addressed to Vlahos at [email protected] 16 . On Friday, the action moved to the L.A. Convention Center, which featured the ABA Lounge. Here, booksellers found The July 2008 Indie Next List & Notables information about ABA and association-related Business Services, Preview checked e-mail at Booklog's Internet Caf, and learned more about June 05, 2008 -- Here's a preview of the inaugural Indie Next List IndieBound. selections and notables titles. All ABA members with storefront locations will be receiving copies of the July Next List in the IndieBound Literary Liberation Box on its way to stores now. The ABA Lounge also featured Author Autographing. Among those who signed The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel by David Wroblewski books for ABA members were Jane Yolen ( Here's a Little Poem; A Very First (Ecco, $25.95, 9780061374227 / 0061374229) Book of Poetry , Candlewick) and Garth Stein, author of the number-one June Book Sense Pick, The Art of Racing in the Rain (HarperCollins). "This story of a modern-day Hamlet, set in the northern woods of Wisconsin, reaches depths of emotion rare in any novel, much less a debut. Driven by powerful characters, particularly the mute Edgar Judy Blume signed copies of Going, Going, Gone! With the Pain and the Great One (Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers) to bring attention to the crucial and the amazing dog Almondine, this story of a family's destruction First Amendment work of the American Booksellers Foundation for Free will resonate with readers long after completion." --Bill Cusumano, Expression. Nicola's Books, Ann Arbor, MI What Was Lost: A Novel by Catherine O'Flynn (Holt, $14 paper, More than 40 authors joined ABA members at the Friday Author Lunch to 9780805088335 / 0805088334) celebrate the titles booksellers enjoyed handselling during the past year. Among "With irreverent wit and sharp insight, O'Flynn weaves a those in attendance were Marisa Silver, author of The God of War (S&S), and mesmerizing tale of a precocious missing girl and the people who Sherman Alexie, author of the Children's Literature Book Sense Book of the Year Honor Book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Little, Brown surround her. By tapping into emotions with ease and grace, this Young Readers). book wonderfully weaves together characters and the love that even loss can't affect." --Meaghan Leenaarts, Island Bookstore, Corolla, NC

The Condition: A Novel by Jennifer Haigh (Harper, $25.95, 9780060840907 / 0060840900) 9780060755782 / 0060755784) "Lawrence Block's hit man protagonist Keller is alone in Des "Jennifer Haigh's latest book is the intimate story of a New England Moines after being set up for murdering a presidential candidate. family, beginning one idyllic summer on Cape Cod, before their (After all, he was just in Iowa to do another contract killing.)The life changes suddenly. Twenty years later their story picks up again action never stops and leaves us hungering for the next book." and you get to know each member of the family, what motivates --Patricia Worth, River Reader, Lexington, MO them, and how they communicate -- or don't -- with each other. I Rules of Deception by Christopher Reich (Doubleday, $24.95, loved this book." --Kym Havens, Wellesley Booksmith, Wellesley, 9780385524063 / 0385524064) MA "Jonathan Ransom, a world-class mountaineer and surgeon for Time Is a River: A Novel by Mary Alice Monroe (Pocket, $25, Doctors Without Borders, goes on the run after his wife dies in an 9781416544364 / 1416544364) accident in the Swiss Alps -- and he finds out she wasn't who he "Told partly in narrative and partly through well-researched thought she was. A well-written thriller that takes off like a shot!" historical diaries and letters, this story of cancer survivor Mia --Susan Wasson, Bookworks, Albuquerque, NM Landan's renewal in a North Carolina cabin is a very powerful Church of the Dog: A Novel by Kaya McLaren (Penguin, $13 novel of forgiveness, redemption, and new birth." --Jackie Blem, paper, 9780143113423 / 0143113429) Tattered Cover Bookstore, Denver, CO "Mara, an art teacher, takes up her new job in ranch country in How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Sasa Stanisic Washington State, moves into a bunkhouse on Earl and Edith's (Grove, $24, 9780802118660 / 0802118666) property, and starts a magical relationship. This wonderful gem of a "A child matures in Bosnia as war comes clanking down his street book is a story of bringing out the wonder and magic in all of us." and he tries to make sense of the good and the bad in the world --Sue Richardson, Maine Coast Book Shop, Damariscotta, ME through stories. A bold novel, and timely." --Russ Lawrence, House & Home: A Novel by Kathleen McCleary ( Voice, $23.95, Chapter One Book Store, Hamilton, MT 9781401340735 / 1401340733) America America: A Novel by Ethan Canin (Random House, "When Sam loses their home on a 'crazy' invention investment, $27, 9780679456803 / 0679456805) Ellen, his wife, must come to grips with saying goodbye to her "A wealthy landowner befriends and helps a boy from a blue-collar beloved house and with her anger. A timely and thoughtful book." family. But he is also intent on ushering a liberal New York senator --Linda Vinstra, Great Northern Books and Hobbies, Oscoda, MI into the White House. This layered and intelligent look at family House Rules: A Joe DeMarco Thriller by Mike Lawson and politics couldn't be more timely in this troubled election year." (Atlantic, $23, 9780871139832 / 0871139839) --Betsy Burton, The King's English, Salt Lake City, UT "Mike Lawson's fine new Joe DeMarco thriller -- set against the Oxygen: A Novel by Carol Wiley Cassella (Simon & Schuster, Washington, D.C., political backdrop -- tackles what seems to be a $25, 9781416556107 / 1416556109) new set of terrorist attacks in the U.S. The novel works on several "When Dr. Marie Heaton's judgment in a tragic case is questioned, levels -- including vivid characters and fine and complex plotting -- she begins to doubt herself and, then, others around her. I and Lawson addresses how fear is used to manipulate national thoroughly enjoyed the book -- full of action and suspense and rich politics." --Dan Domike, Jackson Street Books, Seattle, WA in characterization and subplots -- from start to finish." --Gayle The Secret Scripture: A Novel by Sebastian Barry (Viking, Wingerter, Inklings Bookshop, Yakima, WA $24.95, 9780670019403 / 0670019402) The Enchantress of Florence: A Novel by Salman Rushdie "Barry's novel of Roseanne McNulty, now in her hundredth year in (Random House, $26, 9780375504334 / 0375504338) an Irish mental hospital, is a haunting story of memory and how "From the palazzi of Renaissance Italy to the battlefields of Persia small decisions can have large consequences. The writing was such and the shores of Far India, in The Enchantress of Florence we are a treat that I actually got to the last page late one night and saved it transported effortlessly through life's great conflicts around destiny, until the next morning. I didn't want to read it until I was fully beauty, war, magic, and loyalty. Rushdie's novel is a glorious tale awake and could relish the end." --Rona Brinlee, The Book Mark, of mesmerizing power and indelible images, an aesthetic Atlantic Beach, FL fulfillment all its own." --Marie du Vaure, Vroman's Bookstore, Telex From Cuba: A Novel by Rachel Kushner (Scribner, $25, Pasadena, CA 9781416561033 / 141656103X) Northline: A Novel by Willy Vlautin (Harper Perennial, $14.95 "Set in the last days of Cuba's golden age (at least, for American paper, 9780061456527 / 0061456527) businessmen), this saga, at once familial and national, chronicles "Allison Johnson is on the run, and she is determined to start fresh the drama of Castro's coming coup upon a family stuck in the in Reno. Paul Newman is along for the ride, making sure Allison center of an unstoppable storm. Kushner's storytelling -- as detailed makes the right decisions. Vlautin's honest writing will break your as it is colorful; as truthful as it is fictional -- reads like a vast mural heart." --Zach Sampinos, Sam Weller's Books, Salt Lake City, UT in prose, covering the reader's imagination with pages of forceful The Sister: A Novel by Poppy Adams (Knopf, $23.95, action and forthright emotion." --Steve Shapiro, Rainy Day Books, 9780307268167 / 0307268160) Fairway, KS "This is a stunning, character-rich novel detailing the relationship Up for Renewal: What Magazines Taught Me About Love, Sex, of two English sisters who have not communicated for 50 years. As and Starting Over by Cathy Alter (Atria, $24, 9780743288408 / the author goes back in time, we learn, through the older sister's 0743288408) voice, the complex and dark secrets that bind them. Readers will be "When writer Cathy Alter challenged herself to change her life, she fascinated." --Karen Frank, Northshire Bookstore, Manchester became the guinea pig in her own experiment: to live her life by the Center, VT headlines of women's magazines. Not only did her journey of Hit and Run: A Novel by Lawrence Block (Morrow, $24.95, self-discovery lead her to the man she had always dreamed of, but

© 2008 American Booksellers Association. http://news.bookweb.org/ 4 BOOKSELLING THIS WEEK June 05, 2008 she also discovered how to cook a magnificent meal and forged a Nonfiction better relationship with her mother, all the while maintaining clear Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity by Kerry Cohen skin. Funny and endearing." --Holly Nelson, Changing Hands (Hyperion, $21.95, 9781401303495 / 1401303498) Bookstore, Tempe, AZ A Vengeful Longing: A Novel by R.N. Morris (Penguin Press, Lopsided: How Having Breast Cancer Can Be Really Distracting $24.95, 9781594201806 / 1594201803) by Meredith Norton (Viking, $24.95, 9780670019281 / "Fans of historical crime novels, attend: here is a twisty, clever 0670019283) mystery set in 1860s St. Petersburg and starring Porfiry Petrovich, Mystery/Suspense a shrewd, eccentric, and fascinating police magistrate investigating a murder that's literally death by chocolate." --Mark David Head Wounds by Chris Knopf (Permanent, $28, 9781579621650 / Bradshaw, Watermark Books, Wichita, KS 1579621651)

Chosen Forever: A Memoir by Susan Richards (Soho, $23, Silesian Station by David Downing (Soho, $24, 9781569474945 / 9781569474921 / 1569474923) 156947494X) "Susan Richard has written a sequel to Chosen by A Horse , her wonderful memoir. Her new book relates how the publication of Chosen totally changed her life, connecting her to friends and MainStreet Bookends Co-Owner Jim family from whom she was estranged, and to a man who became Mitchell Dies the love of her life." --Nancy Olson, Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh, NC June 05, 2008 -- Jim Mitchell, co-owner of MainStreet Bookends in Warner, New Hampshire, and longtime Boston-area radio personality, died yesterday inside the bookstore he co-owned with July Notables his sister, Katharine Nevins, as reported by the New Hampshire Union Leader 17 . Mitchell was 58. Fiction According to the Union Leader , Nevins enticed her brother to Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen (FSG, $24, move to Warner to help launch a bookstore, and "together they 9780374200114 / 0374200114) transformed a Colonial farmhouse on Main Street into a thriving family business. The bookstore, MainStreet Bookends, serves as a The Aviary Gate by Katie Hickman (Bloomsbury, $25.99, social hub, hosting a gallery and hundreds of events annually, 9781596914759 / 1596914750) according to the store website." Bloodheir by Brian Ruckley (Orbit, $14.99 paper, Mitchell was also an avid promoter and helped organize the annual 9780316067706 / 0316067709) Warner Fall Foliage Festival, the article noted. In addition to his sister, Mitchell is survived by a brother, Arthur, and several nieces The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway (Riverhead, $21.95, and nephews. 9781594489860 / 1594489866) Bookselling This Week had spoken with Mitchell about MainStreet Bookends in a January 2008 article 18 . In The Name of Sarah Pogford by Jon Edward Jordan (Permanent, $26, 9781579621667 / 157962166X) DIESEL, a Bookstore to Open in The Last Oracle by James Rollins (Morrow, $26.95, Brentwood 9780061230943 / 0061230944) June 04, 2008 -- John Evans and Alison Reid of DIESEL, a Bookstore 19 , in Oakland and Malibu, will be opening a third Missy by Chris Hannan (FSG, $24, 9780374199838 / location in Brentwood, California. The store, approximately 1,500 0374199833) square feet, will be in Brentwood Country Mart, a high-end shopping center built in 1948. It is slated to open in September. The Other by David Guterson (Knopf, $24.95, 9780307263155 / 0307263150) Still under construction, the new DIESEL will be white and square as opposed to the long and narrow multi-colored configurations of A Patent Lie by Paul Goldstein (Doubleday, $24.95, the Malibu and Oakland stores. Its overall aesthetic will be a work 9780385517188 / 0385517181) in progress, reflecting its neighborhood. "It's not like we have a module that we'll put into place," said Evans. "Our stores aren't the Perpetual Care: Stories by James Nolan (Jefferson Press, $16.95 John and Alison stores. They are DIESEL, fine, quality, paper, 9780980016413 / 098001641X) independent bookstores that are highly responsive to those who work in them and to the community." She Was by Janis Hallowell (Morrow, $24.95, 9780061243257 / The Country Mart resembles a "bunch of barn-like structures," has 0061243256) a "friendly, family feel," and has been a Brentwood institution for decades, said Evans. The more than two-dozen businesses range Tigerheart by Peter David (Del Rey, $22, 9780345501592 / from independent to national and include many boutiques, a 0345501594) high-end T-shirt shop, a chocolate shop, a cobbler, and several restaurants. DIESEL will be located next to City Bakery. Unlucky Lucky Days by Daniel Grandbois (BOA Editions, $14 paper, 9781934414101 / 1934414107) The developer invited Evans and Reid to open a bookstore at the Country Mart because he sought to preserve the look and feel of its

© 2008 American Booksellers Association. http://news.bookweb.org/ 5 BOOKSELLING THIS WEEK June 05, 2008 early days, when it had a small, independent bookstore. "He wanted The BOE investigation into whether Barnesandnoble.com had to replicate the businesses that were there when he was a child, but nexus in the state of California was spurred by the Northern with contemporary, updated, and sophisticated versions," explained California Independent Booksellers Association 21 . "I'm delighted Evans. that the BOE pursued this matter to its conclusion, although I'm The developer had approached Evan and Reid about a year and a sorry it took nine years," said Hut Landon, NCIBA executive half ago. At the time, they wouldn't consider it because of the director. "This case sets a precedent of sorts in that Barnes & Noble location's proximity to Dutton's Brentwood Books. "We could see argued from the start, up until they assumed total ownership over that a little bookstore could be successful there," said Reid. "But it Barnesandnoble.com, that the two were separate corporations, and was five minutes away from Dutton's, and we didn't want to be therefore the website was not subject to nexus. Our contention from predatory. We told him that people do that to us, and that we day one was that their website was an arm of Barnes & Noble -- couldn't do that to others." they did have minority ownership at the time, and the two conducted cross-marketing and promotional efforts.... I am pleased The developer returned to Reid and Evans after Dutton's announced that they rejected Barnes & Noble's interpretation of nexus." its closing. At that point, DIESEL's owners decided to check in with Doug Dutton. "John called Doug just to see that he wasn't Barnes & Noble's contention that its California-based planning on doing anything else," said Reid. "It was a tough time, bricks-and-mortar stores did not constitute nexus for because they were closing, but Doug was so gracious." Barnesandnoble.com, because they were two legally separate entities, "sounds a lot like Amazon.com's current contention in After their decision to open in Brentwood, Reid and Evans often Texas," added Landon. (At present, the state of Texas is heard from Brentwood customers about how much they missed investigating 22 whether Amazon.com's Irving, Texas, distribution Dutton's, but they weren't ready to release the information. "I just facility constitutes a physical presence in the state. Amazon has agreed with them that it was a great loss," said Reid. "But I didn't stated that the facility does not because it is owned by an Amazon want to announce we'd be opening yet. I thought Dutton's closing subsidiary.) should have the dignity it deserved. And we're just a small bookstore, not the cultural institution that Dutton's was." The $8.3 million agreement settles two cases: a BOE audit for a four-month period in late 1999 during which Barnesandnoble.com Both Evans and Reid are excited about bringing an independent offered online users coupons redeemable in Barnes & Noble stores; bookstore to a community that will value it. Evans said, "The and a full-scale audit of the website that the BOE launched in 2003. Brentwood community supported [Dutton's] for a long time. It's closed now, and that's awful. They still want to get their books, so In the summer of 1999, NCIBA and a number of indie booksellers why not open a bookstore in a place where people really would first urged the BOE to investigate whether Barnes & Noble had want it?" nexus in the state. They initiated meetings with the chair and the general counsel for the BOE and a number of its investigators. Evans addressed the arguably daunting prospect of opening another location during a possible recession. "People in publishing might In November 1999, Landon and other booksellers became aware think we're crazy, but they're looking at it in a way we aren't," he that Barnes & Noble stores were placing Barnesandnoble.com said. "People come in our stores every day and are really, really coupons in customers' shopping bags. The coupons, a limited, excited about books. They even bring us baked goods. There's a holiday promotion, offered customers a $5 discount on online customer in Malibu who places an order every two weeks and purchases of $25 or more. NCIBA sent the coupons to the BOE in brings us a big batch of baked goods. That's what happens when the hopes that they would investigate Barnes & Noble, which the you're a community bookstore. Publishers don't have a street-level BOE did. "We were like, what else do you need?" Landon told relationship, so they don't necessarily see it." BTW in 2002. "If this isn't a clear case of nexus, what is?" Evan continued, "I see a lot of critiquing, rather than doing, In September 2002, the BOE ruled that Barnesandnoble.com was especially on the left. If everyone thought about how difficult it obligated to pay California back use taxes for a period of four-plus was to do something before they did it, nothing would get done. months, which Barnes & Noble appealed. That's not something I have an interest in. People also told us, in A year later, the BOE voted to conduct a full-scale audit of 1989, that it was a terrible time to open a bookstore, but we did it. Barnes&Noble.com to determine if the online retailer has nexus in Less critiquing and more joy, that's what I say." the state of California. In June 2005, the staff of the BOE Reid's enthusiasm was just as palpable. "I love shiny new things," completed the audit and delivered the opinion to its Board that she said. "I love the thought having a shiny new store and enjoying Barnesandnoble.com has nexus in the state and that the chain that one moment when everything is in order, when the computer retailer owed approximately $20 million in back taxes, sources system is still working. That's a thrill for me. There's something close to the BOE told BTW at the time. Barnesandnoble.com then awfully exciting about it." -- Karen Schechner 20 sought a settlement with the BOE. Barnes & Noble currently collects sales tax in the 45 states that California and B&N Reach Settlement on collect sales tax. --David 23 Grogan 24 Back Sales Tax BookSense.com Becomes ABA June 04, 2008 -- In a significant victory for California's E-commerce Solution independent booksellers, the state's Board of Equalization (BOE) and Barnes & Noble have settled two cases regarding the collection June 04, 2008 -- Inventory uploads now free of sales and use taxes on sales made by Barnesandnoble.com. On With the launch of IndieBound 25 last Thursday at BookExpo Thursday, May 29, the California BOE affirmed and approved a America, the Book Sense marketing program has been replaced settlement that has B&N paying a one-time pre-tax charge of with a program that's more of a movement than a marketing approximately $8.3 million. campaign, and this means changes for the BookSense.com

© 2008 American Booksellers Association. http://news.bookweb.org/ 6 BOOKSELLING THIS WEEK June 05, 2008 program. (open book on white background), Happy Holidays! (snowflake), First and foremost, BookSense.com is not part of IndieBound, and Bookworm (illustration), and Mary Engelbreit's "A Book is a it has been renamed the ABA E-commerce Solution. This will be Present..." all fall into that category. visible in several ways: El Libro (open book in a muted design) will be discontinued due to 1The BookSense.com hub site -- www.booksense.com -- will be increased licensing fees. Modern Reader (illustration with glasses) replaced by the new IndieBound.org website. Both sites will exist and Tome Dark (open book on a dark background) will be side by side for the next month, as the transition is made from Book discontinued once our stock is depleted. Matching presenters will Sense to IndieBound. be revised and a few new designs are in the works. ABA will continue to offer publisher-sponsored cards and presenter sets 2E-mail addresses for ABA staff are changing from throughout the year. [email protected] to [email protected]. (For example, ABA is asking Gift Card Program participants to vote 29 on seven [email protected] is now [email protected] 26 .) new card designs and three new presenter designs. Depending on the results of this survey, new cards and presenters will be available 3Over the next few weeks, beginning on Tuesday, June 3, the by late August/early September for purchase on the card order site. following changes will be made to individual websites: Generic cards cost 22 cents each, with a minimum order of 100. Booksellers can buy 250 cards and add an imprint for an additional The Book Sense logo will be removed. 9 cents per card plus the $25 setup fee. As of August 1, all presenters (minimum order of 100) will cost 12 cents each. Some The Book Sense Bestseller list will be rebranded as the Indie cards will have matching presenters and others will work with a Bestseller List. more generic presenter. The Book Sense Picks will be rebranded as the Indie Next List. Booksellers may continue to sell and redeem gift cards bearing the (Both the Indie Bestseller List and Indie Next list are optional and Book Sense logo since all gift cards associated with our program are enabled by default.) are consumer-friendly and will always be valid. The words "Book Sense" will be removed from the gift card page. Questions can be directed to [email protected] 30 . BookSense gift cards will be replaced by ABA Gift Cards. The URL of stores using "store.booksense.com" will be changing BTW News Briefs to an IndieBound URL. It's important that booksellers make this change in their print and electronic marketing materials. (All traffic June 04, 2008 -- Jane Friedman Resigns as President and CEO attempting to reach store.booksense.com will be redirected to the of HarperCollins Publishers Worldwide new URL.) On June 4, Jane Friedman, president and CEO of HarperCollins Publishers Worldwide, announced she was stepping down after 10 years at the helm of HarperCollins. "My 10 years at HarperCollins have been far and away the most rewarding of my career and so it was not easy to make the decision Inventory Uploads Now Free to step down," said Friedman in a statement. "I am extremely pleased to be succeeded by Brian Murray, an incredibly talented At the E-commerce Solution Users Group meeting at BEA, Ricky Leung, individual and executive, and a true lover of books, who is the the program's director, announced that the $20 fee for uploading local store perfect person to lead our team to continued success in the future. I inventory has been removed. All participating stores may now upload their wish Brian and the entire team at HarperCollins the best of luck." inventory at no additional cost. Friedman joined HarperCollins in November 1997, overseeing HarperCollins worldwide book publishing including operations in ABA staff is now in the process of automating inventory uploads. (Watch the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Australia, New Zealand, and India. for more details in the coming weeks.) Stores interested in participating in Under her leadership, the company achieved record revenues as the inventory upload program should contact [email protected] 27 well as countless publishing honors. Previously, she was executive beginning Monday, June 9. vice president of Random House, Inc., executive vice president of the Knopf Publishing Group, publisher of Vintage Books, and Book Sense Gift Card Program Becomes founder and president of Random House Audio Publishing. ABA Gift Card Program Lightning Source to Fill POD Orders for McClellan Memoir June 04, 2008 -- With the launch of IndieBound, the Book Sense To help meet bookseller demand for Scott McClellan's book What Gift Card program has become the ABA Gift Card program. Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture Although the websites of the card program administrator, Givex, of Deception , PublicAffairs will supplement offset printings with look different, the functionality has not changed. There is a new 28 POD by Lightning Source. URL for the card reorder site, www.jettdirect.com/aba/ , and booksellers accessing the old site, booksenseorders.givex.com, will Intense media interest in the new title resulted in PublicAffairs' be automatically redirected. initial printings rapidly selling out. To supplement further offset printings, PublicAffairs has turned to Lighting Source Inc. for As the Book Sense Gift Card program becomes the ABA Gift Card immediate supplies being shipped to accounts. "When facing this program, there is the opportunity to revise some popular designs kind of extraordinary demand, the key to success is speed to and introduce new ones. Based on sales, some of the standard market," said Susan Weinberg, the publisher at PublicAffairs. designs will be reprinted without the Book Sense logo. Tome Lite

Lightning Source's print-on-demand capability helped us reduce Johnson, read by Will Patton our turnaround time and ship more books to booksellers as quickly as possible." For a full list, visit www.audiopub.org 33 . Additionally, APA and AudioFile Magazine have joined together to provide an interactive The POD copies of the book will supplement large scale way to listen to this year's Audies winners. The website, conventional offset reprints, which are underway. www.theaudies.com 34 , allows listeners to read a review about the winning audiobook, as well as listen to a sample of the audiobook. 20th Annual Lambda Literary Awards Announced On Thursday, May 29, the Lambda Literary Foundation announced FedEx Kinko's Becomes FedEx Office the winners of 21 Lammys, recognizing the best in LGBT books On June 3, FedEx Corporation announced that it will change the and authors. name of FedEx Kinko's to FedEx Office. The ABA Discount Among this year's winners are: Shipping Program, which is managed by PartnerShip, will continue • LGBT Children's/Young Adult: Hero by Perry Moore to offer the FedEx Office member benefit to ABA members. (Hyperion) "Kinko's was primarily a copy and print-service provider when it • LGBT Nonfiction: Gay Artists in Modern American Culture by was acquired in 2004," said Brian D. Philips, president and chief Michael S. Sherry (University of North Carolina Press) executive officer of FedEx Office. "The name FedEx Office more • Bisexual: Split Screen by Brett Hartinger (HarperCollins accurately represents our broader role of providing superior Children's Books) information and services through our company-owned, digitally • Transgender: Transparent by Cris Beam (Harcourt) connected locations around the world. We are a back office for • Lesbian Debut Fiction: Among Other Things, I've Taken Up small businesses and a branch office for medium to large Smoking by Aoibheann Sweeney (Penguin Press) businesses and mobile professionals." • Gay Debut Fiction: A Push and a Shove by Christopher Kelly (Alyson Books) ABA Discount Shipping Program members will not have to re-enroll in the new FedEx Office, and the discounts and services See the complete list of winners at www.lambdaliterary.org 31 . users have come to rely on will remain the same. To enroll in the free program or to review your savings opportunities with all the ForeWord Announces 2007 Book of the Year Award Winners services the ABA Discount Shipping Program offers, visit the website at www.PartnerShip.com/07aba 35 . ForeWord Magazine has announced the winners of its 10th annual Book of the Year Awards. At a ceremony at BookExpo America in Los Angeles, 212 winners in 60 categories were honored. Retailers Still Fighting Organized Retail Crime, According to NRF Survey Two books were named Editor's Choice Prize winners, a distinction that comes with a $1,500 cash prize. The Editor's Choice Prize for As organized retail crime continues to plague the industry, retailers fiction was given to The Folded World by Amity Gaige (Other are getting more serious about uncovering, dismantling, and Press). The nonfiction award went to Women of Courage: Intimate prosecuting the responsible individuals and crime rings. The Stories From Afghanistan by Katherine Kiviat and Scott Heidler National Retail Federation's 2008 Organized Retail Crime report (Gibbs Smith). found that two-thirds of retailers (68 percent) have identified or recovered stolen merchandise and/or gift cards from a fence ForeWord also named the first Independent Publisher of the Year: location, up from 61 percent last year. Much of the stolen Kunati Books, a publisher of fiction and nonfiction, which released merchandise also ends up online, being sold through third-party its first titles just over two years ago. auction sites, where crime rings can maintain anonymity. The The complete list of ForeWord 's Book of the Year Award winners report revealed that nearly two-thirds (63 percent) of retailers is available at ForeWord 's website experienced an increase in e-fencing activity in the past 12 months. (www.forewordmagazine.com/botya 32 ). The survey found that these crimes are still a threat to retailers' bottom lines as more companies this year have been victims of Audies Announced organized retail crime activity within the last 12 months (85 percent vs. 79 percent in 2007). However the report also found that of the On May 30, the Audio Publishers Association (APA) announced retailers who have identified organized retail crime as a problem in the winners of the 2008 Audies at a grand Gala at the Millennium their stores, fewer reported an increase in activity within the past 12 Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. The Audies are the only completely months (66 percent vs. 71 percent). When it comes to how much juried awards program covering audiobooks and spoken word retailers spend fighting organized retail crime each year, the survey entertainment. The original production Sweeney Todd and the found the average retailer spends approximately $230,000 per year String of Pearls (Blackstone Audio Inc.) by Yuri Rasovsky, read by on labor costs. Many larger retailers who are particularly affected Phil Proctor, Simon Templeman, et al., won in all three of its by the problem can spend upwards of $1 million a year. According nominated categories -- Original Work, Audio Drama, and to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, organized retail crime Achievement in Production. accounts for as much as $30 billion in retail losses every year. Other winners included: As a response to the growing problem of organized retail crime, • Audiobook of the Year: The Chopin Manuscript (Audible, Inc.) NRF, along with the FBI and other industry associations, launched by Jeffery Deaver, Lee Child, et al., read by Alfred Molina the Law Enforcement Retail Partnership Network (LERPnet) in • Biography/Memoir: Einstein: His Life and Universe (Simon & April 2007. LERPnet was designed to track patterned crimes and Schuster Audio) by Walter Isaacson, read by Edward Herrmann criminals through a secure national database that will allow • Literary Fiction: Tree of Smoke (Macmillan Audio) by Denis retailers to share information through its unique web-based design.

With LERPnet, retailers and law enforcement will be able to fight Joel Osteen and his publisher, Hachette, ordered the case closed back against illegal activity including organized retail crime, this week. A number of ABA bookstore members were among burglaries, robberies, counterfeiting, and online auction fraud. those who had received a summons in the civil action. Maryelizabeth Hart of Mysterious Galaxy in San Diego, said that, following ABA's festive announcement of IndieBound at Thursday ABA Town Hall & Annual Membership night's Celebration of Bookselling, she still "didn't know really Meetings Recap what it was, other than a renaming of Book Sense." June 03, 2008 -- The American Booksellers Association held its Shanks responded that, when rolling out a new initiative, it's tough annual Town Hall, followed by the ABA Membership Meeting, on to know exactly how much to talk about at the initial launch, but Friday afternoon, May 30, at BookExpo America. The informal she stressed, "We could not be more excited about this program. Town Hall, moderated by outgoing ABA President Russ Lawrence We did tease the program a lot but a decision was made that of Chapter One Book Store in Hamilton, Montana, and incoming booksellers could [find out more about the program] in the ABA President Gayle Shanks of Tempe, Arizona's Changing Hands, was Lounge and at the IndieBound Information Session" on Saturday dominated by discussions of IndieBound, as well as ABA's afternoon. e-fairness efforts. "It's a legitimate comment," ABA CEO Avin Mark Domnitz stated. BEA Show Director Lance Fensterman began the Town Hall by "Thursday night was very much the launch of the program, the giving members a brief convention update, and then Lawrence presentation of an idea and the outline of a painting, and, now, we opened the floor to booksellers. Hut Landon, executive director of have to do the painting," he said, adding, "We knew, number one, the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association, you'd come to the lounge and the information session, and next kicked off the dialogue by commending "the excellent work that week, you will be receiving your Literary Liberation Box." The New York booksellers and ABA" undertook to get the Internet box is the start-up kit that all ABA members will receive, and it sales tax provision passed in the New York State budget in April. will include explanations of the program, posters, bookmarks, book "As you know, we've been fighting in California for a long time," plates, buttons, and other collateral material. he said. "We have pushed the Board of Equalization (BOE) to go Lucy Kogler from Talking Leaves Books in Buffalo, New York, after Barnes & Noble for nine years." Landon then reported that, had high praise for IndieBound. "It gives us the tools to do this in the night before, the California BOE had accepted and affirmed our own way, in our community. I'm so excited about this." settlements in two sales tax cases involving the bookstore chain and that B&N will have to pay the state of California approximately Following the Town Hall, Lawrence called the association's Annual $8.3 million in back taxes. (See related story.) Membership Meeting to order. Board member Beth Puffer of Bank Street Bookstore in New York City delivered the Report of the Lawrence also extended his thanks to New York booksellers for Nominating Committee, which noted the election of new Board their e-fairness efforts, and added: "It's all part of the puzzle; it's members Ken White of SFSU Bookstore in San Francisco and Dan made a difference in New York. And public sentiment is on our Chartrand of Water Street Bookstore in Exeter, New Hampshire, side when we make our case properly. This is not a new tax; it is a and the reelection of Michael Tucker of California's Books Inc. to a way to collect tax that is already due." second three-year term on the Board. The association membership Following the update on the campaign for e-fairness, the discussion also ratified the Board's choice of Gayle Shanks to serve a one-year turned to IndieBound. Lawrence provided a brief history of how term as ABA president and Tucker to serve a one-year term as vice IndieBound came about, and in the process, had great praise for the president/secretary. Book Sense program. "IndieBound is continuing what was great In the Report of the President, Lawrence praised association about Book Sense.... It carries on all those things that keep us in the members, ABA Board members, and past presidents for the publishers' eyes. But what was missing was the connection with the progress the association has made on many fronts, including customers, the community. IndieBound gives you a way to go out providing the education and the tools booksellers need to succeed. and talk to other businesses in your community.... [It] is a "New stores are opening again. The '90s were tough, but in the last movement; we can all contribute to it." few years we've seen new stores open." He also praised outgoing Jean Brace from Brace Books & More in Ponca City, Oklahoma, Board member Collette Morgan of Wild Rumpus in Minneapolis, asked if, as part of the IndieBound movement, the association has Minnesota, and thanked her for "what you have brought us with had any conversations with other trade organizations. your cheerfulness, thoughtfulness, and creativity." Lawrence welcomed White and Chartrand to the Board and told ABA "That's a big part of it," Lawrence said. "We've met with other members at the meeting, "The association is in tremendously good trade associations.... Some of these groups [have only independent hands." members], and they love what we're doing." In her role as ABA vice president/secretary for the past year, Former ABA President Mitchell Kaplan of Books & Books in Shanks reported on ABA's membership figures, which, as of April Miami, Florida, extended congratulations to the whole Board for 2008, numbered 2,117, down from 2,209 the year before. However, putting the initiative together. "I heard about it for the first time last she noted that, in addition to losses in membership, ABA had for night," he said, "and it really revealed itself in the ABA Lounge the third year in a row seen more than 100 newly opened stores join today," where there were samples of the "Literary Liberation Box" the association. "We have started gaining new stores," she said. "I and the new IndieBound collateral materials think we're on the way up." Kaplan also thanked the association for its handling of the In his report, ABA CEO Avin Mark Domnitz said, "It's been a copyright infringement claims brought by the Rev. Herman good year, an exciting year. There are a lot of good things Douglas, Sr. against various distributors and retailers. The judge, happening here, part of which you saw last night [at the Celebration who had already dismissed the Rev. Douglas' claims against author of Bookselling 36 ]. With IndieBound, there are no rules. The one

© 2008 American Booksellers Association. http://news.bookweb.org/ 9 BOOKSELLING THIS WEEK June 05, 2008 problem with Book Sense is that there were rules to participate. with these publicists and their new, hot books, I'm going to the With IndieBound, any independent can participate.... Chill Out Room." "I came into the business in 1979, and the '80s were good for At the Chill Out Room, I picked up my press pass, and asked the booksellers. Then there was a dark age where bigger was nice guy what a press pass entitled me to. Well, what I said was, "I [considered] better, and national was good. Today, things have mean, I can kick over tables and stuff, right?" Because I'm a real changed. A window has opened, an appreciation for independents journalist. is palpable -- you can feel it in the air.... Consumers are looking for I remembered there was a panel I wanted to go to. So I said to the you in their shopping." nice guy, "Um, my friend Kevin Sampsell, of Powell's fame, is Domnitz also reported that, based on feedback from its members, giving a panel. Do you know where that is?" the association has, over the past few years, developed an annual And he opened the BEA bible, which is this huge book about BEA, calendar of education events, which includes the highly popular and he said a few disconcerting things: "Yeah, it's hard to know Winter Institute. He also noted that more than 700 booksellers had what day you're looking at in this thing," and then, "Do you know participated in Thursday's Day of Education program. the name of the panel," to which I replied, "You can't just look it up "And advocacy is also extremely important, and we've been active by author's name?" And then he said, "I have no idea." in the pursuit of measures to ensure e-fairness," Domnitz said, So I texted a friend in Portland for the info because why would I try noting how New York State booksellers and ABA were successful and figure it out in a book, when I have a phone and friends with in their e-fairness efforts in the state. "It means that [on June 1], Internet access? Amazon.com will start collecting and remitting sales tax in New York State. That's a huge victory." Domnitz saluted the efforts of Sure enough, the Internet wins, and my friend texts me the the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association and its coordinates, and I hustled down to the panel and sat there for the executive director, Eileen Dengler, and president, Joe Drabyak, for last eight minutes where I waved excitedly at Kevin from the their efforts in encouraging the state's independent booksellers to audience, and he had to be all professional and act like there wasn't write their elected officials to urge approval of the Internet sales tax someone sitting there and waving every time he looked to the left provision. side of the room. Domnitz also noted that the American Booksellers Foundation for After the panel, which I maybe should have taken some notes on, Free Expression has been very active this year. but someone said something about the fact that books wouldn't be around in five years because the Internet would take it over and I Addressing the association's finances, Domnitz said, "ABA is a rolled my eyes because, seriously, who needs the Internet when you healthy fiscal organization.... ABA is quite healthy." Referring to have books?!? the weak national economy and its effect on the association's investment portfolio, he added: "We are wending our way through After the panel, in a fit of Junior High level angst that prevented me stormy seas very, very well." (The 2008 Membership Meeting from doing a single thing alone, I grabbed Kevin and we walked slideshow, the handout given to members, and more are available at the floor for a few hours where I learned a few things. www.bookweb.org/about/govern 37 .) 1Platform sandals, even though they are Danskos, are not appropriate book convention shoes, but I did look cute. There were no items raised under Old Business, and under New Business, former ABA President Ann Christophersen praised 2No one is really sure about what the press pass allows me to do, outgoing president Russ Lawrence. "I just want to say you have except everyone agreed that kicking over tables ought to be been a terrific president." --David Grogan 38 allowed. 3Michael Connelly is a very patient man. BEA: Free Books and (Some) Free Food. A Bookseller's Dream Come True. Here's the Michael Connelly story: I walked through the Hachette booth and found a big pile of the new Connelly and I promptly June 03, 2008 -- By Melissa Lion squeaked and picked up a copy. And then I said to Kevin, "Oh my Planning and researching travel things is not my strength. I sort of god, I love Connelly. He is the very best, and I love him." And have this idea that I'll show up someplace and a person will be Kevin said what everyone says who has met Connelly, "He is very there with my name on a white card and she'll have a little nice." And I said, "I've never met him, but if I did, I'd tell him that I computer and a cup of tea and perhaps a carne asada burrito and loved him." then she'll be there to lead me around and I'll say things like, "I And then I turned to my right and there, in the flesh, was Michael want the new Dennis Lehane, how do I find that?" and she'll punch Connelly. And he was talking to important people in business suits. in something on her wee computer and then voila, the new Lehane But hey, I was a cute girl in painful shoes and I needed to talk to is in my hand. And I won't be hungry or having that caffeine one of my favorite authors. So I said, "Hi Michael! I'm Melissa headache I get when I haven't had my tea. Lion, and I love you. And your books." And he said something that Turns out, despite my moderate certainty that I'd show up at the I didn't catch because I was suddenly struck that I had a single Los Angeles Convention Center and that person would be there, prescient moment before arriving, I put my flip camera in my she wasn't. She is totally fired. purse, which meant I could FILM him. So I popped it open and 39 I arrived at BEA and felt very fancy because I got to bypass the turned it on and I filmed this video . lines for tickets and march right up to the ABA Booksellers This is why I should not be allowed around authors. Lounge, which will henceforth be known as the Chill Out Room I wandered around a bit more feeling shocked and embarrassed and because I secretly hope that by calling it that, next year it will be elated and then I wandered right back to Malibu, where I was rechristened and indie booksellers will say things like, "Enough staying because I have a hard life. I then watched a few hours of I

Love New York and went to sleep to prepare for day two. suit that due to contract negotiations, the servers had all gone on Day Two strike 10 minutes prior and the BEA office staff would be serving our food. And for one small moment, I was an actual journalist. I I woke early, ready to be a journalist and get the story and whatever asked three questions, which he enthusiastically blew off. 1) Why else people with press passes do. My editor had stuck a few are they so pissed about their contracts? 2) Is Michael Moore breakfast and luncheon tickets in my nametag and I thought, free leading the charge? 3) Will the office staff be getting paid the same food, why not? wages as the servers? I walked into the author breakfast and marched right past the The authors came on and Michael Moore was not there. Rather, people in rows to the people at the tables because I was the media, he'd cancelled due to bad weather. The people there were and therefore special and deserving of a comfortable seat and food. Christopher Buckley, Arianna Huffington, Markos Moulitsas I sat down at a table and the authors walked in, Alec Baldwin, Zuniga, aka The Daily Koz, and Richard Engel. And they talked a Magic Johnson, Philippa Gregory, and Andre Dubus III. And the lot about politics. And then the servers came back and no one talks began and I waited for food beyond the single blueberry bagel mentioned the strike, until the end when Christopher Buckley asked and half-eaten muffin on the table. I waited and waited and waited us to give a special thank you to the BEA staff for serving the meal. and then I turned to the woman next to me and asked where the And people clapped. I don't recall ever being at a luncheon where actual food was. She said that was the food, and then I watched as people gave a special thank you to the actual servers doing the she removed a notebook and began to take notes on the talks. And serving. she had a press pass too. And I realized that's something a Oh, and there was food. It was chicken and risotto. I ate it too. journalist would do. So I pulled out a bank statement and a lip liner and wrote notes. After the luncheon I walked around the floor a bit more, hitting up Hachette a number of times because they kept their free books Here they are: "Alec Baldwin is pissed about his divorce. Magic fresh and flowing. And here's what I figured out, all too late: the Johnson opens a lot of chain stores. Philippa Gregory wore an publishers put out fresh free books all day. So if I were an orange bustier and pearls at 8:00 a.m. Andre Dubus = cute." organized human being, I would have crafted a circuit and hit up After the breakfast, I went up to the Chill Out Room where I the booths every X number of minutes. But I am not that person. thought I might find actual food. Or at least tea. Because there was After wandering around a bit more, I needed fresh air and a no tea at the "breakfast." I walked in and kind of loitered and then I margarita and some tacos. So I left the convention center for saw a name badge I recognized -- Dan Cullen. One of the fine Venice beach. Where I did non-book related things. And prepared people who puts out this newsletter. I introduced myself, and he myself for the PGW party by drinking margaritas. thanked me for doing the story and then asked me what I was writing about. And I said, "You know, BEA. I mean, I'm trying to When I arrived at the party, I had sufficiently gotten buzzed enough get a bead on the buzz, the hot books, you know, the vibe." This that I was nonplussed when, after I ordered a Stella, the bartender seemed right and maybe what I pitched originally. And he nodded asked for nine dollars. And I checked out the Bone Daddy's who and I said, "So, what are the hot books?" And he told me. were nothing if not zany. I mean, if you like guys in zany hats and sparkly shirts, this is your band. I like vodka cranberry and They are: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by Daniel Wroblewski margaritas and beer and more vodka so they were totally my band (Ecco) and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by too. Mary Ann Schaffer and Annie Barrows (Dial Press). I would like to say that I went to BEA for Sunday when the Thanks to Dan Cullen for doing my work for me. publishers unloaded their display books, but I did not. I was, And because Dan was there, I couldn't plop down on the sofa and instead, cruising the floor behind my eyelids and begging my host put my sunglasses on and take a nap. I had to go out on the floor for 7-Up and pretzels. and get the story. All in all it was a great weekend. I gathered a lot of free books, Out I went. I went straight to the Harper booth for a copy of the drank too much, and saw old friends. I also got a story. I don't new Dennis Lehane. I walked to a publicist person and asked for it. know if it was the story. But it was a story. Hope you liked it. I pointed at my badge and said, "Hi, I'm a journalist and a freelance book reviewer and I'd like a copy of the new Dennis Lehane." And Melissa Lion is a former bookseller and the author of two Random she said, "I don't have any." And turned on her heel and walked House novels, Swollen and Upstream . She is the co-creator of away. Back Fence PDX, a storytelling series in Portland, Oregon. She 40 After scribbling down her name in my slam book, I interviewed blogs at www.melissalion.com . people about the vibe at BEA. People. Not friends I ran into whom I haven't seen in years. Just random people. Here's what I heard: Honored Authors Say "Thanks" to Indie Prince had a party the night before and he played eleventy hundred Booksellers songs and then he gave every person at the party 37 gold doubloons and their own airplane. And then they saved humanity. And got June 03, 2008 -- This year's annual ABA Author Luncheon at home at 4:00 a.m. It sounded like fun. BookExpo America in Los Angeles included special guest Ray Bradbury and a moving tribute by Khaled Hosseini to his fellow It was nearing time for the author lunch. But this time I was no Afghan writers. About 500 booksellers, publishers, and other fool. I wouldn't go hungry again. I knew the Chill Out Room was industry pros honored the 40 attending authors whose books going to have sandwiches, so I went back to there and scarfed independent booksellers handsold during the past year, and they in down a sandwich and got two books signed. And then I ran down turn thanked booksellers for their continuing support. to the luncheon where Michael Moore was supposed to be. Incoming ABA Vice President Michael Tucker of Books Inc., who I sat down at our table and was informed by a man in a business

© 2008 American Booksellers Association. http://news.bookweb.org/ 11 BOOKSELLING THIS WEEK June 05, 2008 emceed the event, acknowledged all of the authors who "opened These lunches are great. Any time you can sit with booksellers and our minds ... and gladdened our hearts with the pages of their authors and talk about what you're reading, it's always lovely." -- work." He then paid particular tribute to Bradbury, "who even has Karen Schechner 42 his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame." Setting the tone for a literary love-fest, Sherman Alexie ( The An Imagined Autobiography From the Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian , Little, Brown Books Author of The House of God for Young Readers) confessed, "I am a writer, yes, but I'm also a huge fan, and I'm losing my mind. I met Dennis Lehane before June 03, 2008 -- Before E.R. and Grey's Anatomy transformed lunch, and I want to make out with him, and I think he sensed it doctors and interns into objects of public fascination, there was because he backed up." Samuel Shem's The House of God -- a dark, funny, emotionally and sexually frank novel about a group of interns at the titular hospital Switching gears to thank booksellers who handsold his adult work -- written by Dr. Stephen Bergman based on his experiences as an prior to The Absolutely True Diary , his National Book intern at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. Award-winning YA novel, Alexie told booksellers, "You've been my friends and my entourage and posse ... for many years now. Since its publication in 1978, The House of God has sold two Thank you for a wonderful year." million copies -- and its timeless, unflinching look at the people and emotions behind the business of medicine has ensured the David Shannon, illustrator of Pirates Don't Change Diapers book's continued status as a page-turner. (Harcourt Children's Books) talked about the series that he's 43 worked on with author Melinda Long and said that of all the stories Bergman, who began using the pen name Samuel Shem out of he'd illustrated, the Pirates stories were the one he wished he'd consideration for his patients, has since written several other books, written himself. He then complimented booksellers on their fiction and nonfiction, plus a play about the founders of Alcoholics excellent events planning. "Every bookstore I went in ... all did Anonymous, "Bill W. and Dr. Bob." such a great job with kids to provide pirate ... parties. The kids had This month marks the publication of his latest novel, The Spirit of a blast, and that's because of all of you guys." the Place , published by Kent State University Press, with support After expressing his appreciation for booksellers' continued support from the Literary Ventures Fund. It is also the 30-year anniversary of his work, Book Sense Book of the Year Children's Literature of The House of God 's debut. winner Brian Selznick ( The Invention of Hugo Cabret , Scholastic The Spirit of the Place is set in Columbia, New York, a small Press) gave tribute to Bradbury, which earned another round of upstate town on the Hudson River that will feel familiar to applause. "His books have been such an inspiration, and I think I residents of, or visitors to, Hudson, New York. can say that for everyone in the room." 44 "This book, I call a sort of imagined autobiography," said Fancy Nancy illustrator Robin Preiss-Glasser, wearing a tiara and a Bergman. "[The town] would be recognizable to anyone who lives multi-colored sequin dress, had some advice for attendees of a there." The idea for The Spirit of the Place came to Bergman when certain age and an homage to Nora Ephron. "What's good about a he returned to Hudson in 1983 for a celebration of the 200-year feather boa, for all of those women 40 and over, is that it covers the anniversary of the town's founding. He saw friends from 30 years wrinkles in your neck." She also shared some gratitude on behalf of ago and "was spurred by [his] creative imagination to write this Nancy. "Thank you for embracing this crazy character," she said. book." Declaring herself to be "the luckiest person in the room," because As he wrote, Bergman put in hours of library-time, visited historic she got Bradbury's autograph, Ann Patchett offered a paean of spots in Hudson, and reconnected with those old friends. appreciation to booksellers for handselling What Now? (Harper), based on a commencement speech she gave at Sarah Lawrence The Spirit of the Place , set in 1983, is indeed filled with College. "We did no press, no ads, so believe you me, if not for you descriptive detail -- but not too much that the flip-ahead urge arises. people there would be nothing.... Thank you for everything." Bergman is skilled in using the town as a character, and the various settings for key scenes feel instrumental, but not intrusive. Book Sense Book of the Year winner in the Fiction category for A Thousand Splendid Suns (Riverhead/Penguin), Khaled Hosseini Thus, it's easy for the reader to imagine the tree-lined streets, old offered a "very heartfelt thanks to all the booksellers who supported buildings, and sparkling river that serve as a backdrop for the me these last five years." He went on to say how badly he wished drama that results when, upon news of his mother's death, young some of his compatriot writers, struggling unknown in Afghanistan Dr. Orville Rose returns to his hometown. and "far more eloquent" than he, could someday join him and be Orvy's emotional mixed bag -- fondness, disgust, restlessness, recognized for their work at BEA. "And if that writer were a curiosity -- at encountering people from his past, from bullies to woman, it would be so much sweeter for me," he said. "I'll accept dear friends, will feel recognizable to anyone who has made the this award as her proxy." journey to a hometown long left behind (or anyone who's remained, Author Susan Richards ( Chosen By a Horse; Chosen Forever , and now must greet the weary traveler). Soho Press) observed all the biblio-love around her and said, "The To add to the intrigue, Orvy is fresh from a divorce and a year of feeling here -- of authors and booksellers honoring each other -- is working abroad for Doctors Without Borders -- a very different life so wonderful. I'm in awe of it." from the ones led by the family and neighbors he worked so hard to Nancy Olson of Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh, North Carolina, leave behind. He is shocked to learn that, although his mother said, "I'm so thrilled. I just got to hug Ray Bradbury, and he kissed bequeathed him a good deal of money, she attached one condition: my hand." He must live in her house, there in Hudson, a year and 13 days before he can collect it. Alison Reid of DIESEL, a Bookstore with locations in Oakland, Malibu, and soon to be Brentwood 41 , California, told BTW , The plot continues to thicken, as Orvy encounters his childhood

© 2008 American Booksellers Association. http://news.bookweb.org/ 12 BOOKSELLING THIS WEEK June 05, 2008 nemesis, his beloved mentor (the aging town doctor), and a woman who intrigues him intellectually and physically. Humor, politics, What is the Literary Ventures Fund? growing pains, and family dynamics are all part of the mix, to excellent effect. The Spirit of the Place is published by Kent State University Press and is supported by the Literary Ventures Fund 46 , a not-for-profit private foundation It's not surprising, considering Bergman has worked as a that supplements publishers' and authors' efforts to get books into readers' psychiatrist for 35 years. The Harvard- and Oxford-educated author hands. That support can come in the form of marketing, publicity, and/or said, "When I went to Harvard Medical School, it was always with distribution. the intention that I'd learn to be a doctor and that would be my day job, while somehow I'd find a way to write." Ande Zellman, editorial director of LVF, said the group receives inquiries and proposals all the time, but fewer than a dozen a year result in partnerships. When he became a psychiatrist, Bergman devoted his mornings to "We have to love the book and believe it will resonate with lots of readers ... writing and scheduled his patients in the afternoon -- an and be sure we are working with publishers and authors whose interests are often-challenging routine. "Sometimes it got tough when a story aligned with our mission: to get the book to as large an audience as possible would keep going on my head when I was supposed to be listening. and stay at this effort for a number of years." The hard part is when you get a good idea and can't write it down." But Bergman's ability to help people while having the opportunity Regarding The Spirit of the Place , Zellman said, "We really love the book.... Also, because the author is very well known for the bestselling The House of to experience all sorts of personalities and problems proved God and [the sequel] Mount Misery , and has a broad network and community invaluable to his writing. of interest in place, we knew we could do a lot with the book. Bergman/Shem is very motivated, and has been making himself totally available to the LVF He said, "Psychiatry was really terrific for me ... I did learn about team, which is always a big plus." what makes people tick, and I also saw a ton of different kinds of people from the public as well as private sectors that I wouldn't Zellman said she believes "LVF and independent booksellers are made for have necessarily come across otherwise." each other.... We're all trying to make the book buying and reading experience The decisions that Orvy and the other characters wrestle with do more intimate, and to strengthen and bring vibrancy to the connection feel familiar, whether they're about forgiving past hurts or deciding between reader and author." if something (or someone) is worth fighting for. LVF formed a national independent bookseller advisory board this year, and it It's just that sort of thing that gets Bergman excited about writing: offers programs targeted to independent booksellers 47 . "We want you to get "Those 'Hey, wait a second! Why am I doing this?' moments -- we to know us and we want to get to know you," Zellman said. -- Linda M. all have those, and we go ahead and do things anyway. If enough of Castellitto 48 them pile up ... that's what gets my motor going." Political issues have been on his mind in recent years, too, and they BISG TRENDS 2008 : Challenges Ahead have informed Bergman's reading choices as well as some aspects of The Spirit of the Place . "I mostly read nonfiction now, about June 03, 2008 -- The book industry should expect to face a economics, hunger, you name it," he said. "This is such an challenging economy for the remainder of 2008 and for most of incredibly political time, all the horrible eight years of Bush. 2009, according to the Book Industry Study Group's (BISG) Book Industry TRENDS 2008 . BISG announced some key findings of " The Spirit of the Place has a very strong underpinning of the the study (which will be released on June 16) during a session on politics of that time, the start of a huge shift in the country from Friday, May 30, at BookExpo America. Michael Healy, executive what was a more public-spirited place to the start of the Reagan director of BISG, hosted the BEA presentation, which featured Al revolution. It's felt in this town, and in medicine, in 1983 and Greco, senior researcher at the Institute for Publishing Research. 1984." All told, "2007 turned out to be a pretty good year," said Greco, Politics aside, though, Bergman said The Spirit of the Place is who reported that publishers' net revenues in 2007 increased to about something more fundamental: "I think it's a book about basic $37.26 billion, an increase of 4.4 percent over 2006. Units sold for human issues. It's a journey of the spirit in terms of going back to the year increased by just less than 1 percent to 3.1 billion, while your roots." domestic consumer expenditures increased 4.4 percent to $56.63 He added, "One of the easiest things to do as a writer is to take a billion. "Revenue increased due to increased suggested retail good situation and tear it all down, a straight line down to prices," he added. something awful.... I think what's a lot harder is to show you the Noting that over the next few years, the tax shortfall among the 50 climb out of that, how some characters grow and are redeemed. I states will reach more than $38 billion combined, Greco said, "The believe novels are about that." economy in 2008 and 2009 will be a challenging one, but we Bergman said this positive outlook on human nature is drawn from expect to see an uptick in 2010, maybe the last half of 2009." his personal and professional experiences over the last few decades. Net publisher revenues are expected to increase by 2.8 percent in "It comes from being a doctor, a person, an author, familiar with both 2008 and 2009, though units sold are predicted to decrease by AA -- people do grow, they really do. It's astonishing -- they can go 0.7 percent in 2008 and to remain flat in 2009. Consumer through things in the most horrible ways and come out better." expenditures are expected to increase by 2.7 percent and 2.8 The author/doctor/playwright will be sharing that hopeful message percent in 2008 and 2009, respectively. "There will be a significant at upcoming appearances and events, including a reading/signin g slowdown in 2008 -- there will be continued increases in suggested at The Hudson Opera House on June 14, and a symposium at the retail prices, and we don't expect gas prices to go down, though Cleveland Clinic in October. --Linda M. Castellitto 45 there will be steady growth overall in terms of revenue." Healy began the BISG presentation with a discussion of data on smaller publishers provided by InfoTrends, which, he explained,

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