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June 01, 2006 directory available to technologically savvy consumers makes good TABLE OF CONTENTS: business sense," said Meg Smith, ABA director of membership • Book Sense Partners With Earthcomber to Put marketing. "Readers and consumers are using technology to shop and find books in new ways every day, and Earthcomber allows Independents on the Mobile Map ...... 1 stores with Book Sense to be part of one of those new ways. ABA • All ABA Members Asked to Participate in is hopeful about the potential of this new service to benefit our Legislative Day Follow-Up ...... 1 members." • Playing by a Different Set of Rules: Earthcomber, available at Earthcomber.com as a free download, Independent Booksellers as Mavericks ...... 2 includes maps of every region in the U.S. In addition to bookstores, • NAIBA to Hold Second Trunk Show ...... 3 Earthcomber can direct users to the nearest ATM, independent coffee shop, museum, golf course, bar, local events, natural sites, or • BTW New Briefs ...... 3 any of the other 1.5 million points of interest that come with the • Local Business Organizers Encourage free Earthcomber data set. Booksellers to Build Community Efforts ...... 4 Jim Brady, Earthcomber founder and CEO, launched the company • Threats to Press Freedom Focus of BEA to help guide people to their interests quickly, no matter where in Panel ...... 4 the U.S. they are. Brady told BTW that he always looks for • Booksellers Highlight Summer Favorites at independent bookstores when he travels and wanted to make BEA ...... 5 finding them easy for others. "People love bookstores, especially independent bookstores, where each has its own history and • BEA Offers Podcast of Updike Speech About personality," said Brady. "It's precisely the kind of quality of life Books & Bookstores ...... 6 item that's on everybody's list. I thought it would be wonderful to • Affinity Partner Offers New Label Designs, offer Book Sense bookstores on Earthcomber so people could find New Payment Options ...... 6 them even in strange territory. When people are traveling on business or vacation, they'll know if an independent bookstore happens to be right around the corner." BOOK SENSE THIS WEEK All Earthcomber users automatically receive the Book Sense store • The July Book Sense Picks & Notables directory when they download Earthcomber maps and location Preview ...... 6 data. When an Earthcomber user searches for a bookstore, the • Anthology Integrates With Book Sense Gift store's name and address is displayed, along with the Book Sense tagline, "Brought to you by an independent bookstore with Book Cards ...... 8 Sense." Directions are also available. Currently, booksellers cannot • Island Bookstore in Duck, Corolla, and Kitty expand or change the information available through the service. Hawk, North Carolina ...... 8 Earthcomber works on a range of handhelds, from basic PDAs with • Correction ...... 9 no accessories or networking to the latest Treo 650 smart phone. To see the full list of supported equipment, visit Earthcomber.com. MARKETPLACE Questions about Earthcomber should be e-mailed to Dana Sohr, senior vice president for sales and operations, at • Classifieds ...... 9 [email protected] 2 . --Karen Schechner 3 • Other Advertising ...... 10 All ABA Members Asked to Participate in Legislative Day Follow-Up Book Sense Partners With Earthcomber June 01, 2006 -- The American Booksellers Association is to Put Independents on the Mobile Map encouraging members who participated in its first-ever Legislative June 01, 2006 -- 1 Book Sense and Earthcomber, a mobile Day at BookExpo America, as well as those who did not, to follow marketing service that matches people on the go with their personal up with their senators and representatives to encourage support for interests, have partnered to offer the directory of Book Sense store issues of import to independent booksellers. For those who met locations in a mobile GPS-enabled format for Palm OS and with their senators, representatives, or congressional staff, ABA Windows Mobile PDAs and smart phones. Palm, Pocket PC, or suggests a note of thanks for the meeting would provide the perfect Treo users can now find directions to the closest independent opportunity to reiterate their concerns. bookstore with Book Sense in locations as varied as New York In a letter to participating booksellers, ABA COO Oren Teicher City and Sitka, Alaska, via Earthcomber. said, "Based on our conversations with booksellers in Washington "Partnering with Earthcomber to make the Book Sense store and after the show, we do understand that there was a wide range of

© 2005 American Booksellers Association. http://news.bookweb.org/ 1 BOOKSELLING THIS WEEK June 01, 2006 responsiveness at legislators' offices. That's not unusual at all -- and questionnaire. (I'm taking the liberty of attaching another copy.) Please it's one of the things that makes life in Congress so interesting! return it to [email protected] 7 , or you may fax it to (914) 591-2720, attention: Dan Cullen. Thanks! "We strongly encourage you to send a short thank-you note on your And, finally, I want to reiterate our invitation to visit ______(name of your store's letterhead to the senators, congresspeople, or staff members bookstore) in ______(name of your town or city) when you are back home. you met. We'd recommend that you focus on two substantive issues We'll look forward to seeing you! in your follow-up -- small business access to health care and vigilance in the enforcement of the re-enacted Patriot Act." Thanks again. Teicher also suggested that the thank-you note could serve as a reminder about the "Congressional What Are You Reading?" form Sincerely, 4 that participants left at congressional offices. ABA plans to put together a list of the most-read and most-influential titles on Capitol Hill based on responses to the questionnaire. ABA is encouraging booksellers who did not participate in Legislative Day to contact their senators and representatives to urge support for these issues and to ask them to complete the "What Are You Reading?" form. The association has created a sample follow-up letter for participants that can also be adapted by non-participants. Playing by a Different Set of Rules: Booksellers should be sure to include their store's full name, address, phone number, and other contact information in the letter. Independent Booksellers as Mavericks Since mail delivery to congressional offices can often be delayed, May 31, 2006 -- William C. Taylor and Polly LaBarre, the authors ABA suggests the letter and form be sent both by fax and by of Mavericks at Work (coming from William Morrow this fall), e-mail. encouraged bookstore owners and managers at ABA's BookExpo Teicher concluded his letter by noting that ABA was "deeply America education session "Independent Booksellers as appreciative of [participants'] willingness to come to Washington Mavericks" to look beyond best practices to "next practices." earlier than [they] might have otherwise ... We hope you, too, felt Taylor, the founding editor of Fast Company , and LaBarre, that it was a very successful endeavor. Thanks again for joining us, formerly a senior editor for Fast Company , discussed how small and, please, don't ever hesitate to contact me -- or anyone at ABA businesses can make their mark by out-thinking large business -- if we can be of any assistance." --Rosemary Hawkins 5 competitors and by not playing it safe. "Most big organizations exist to play it safe, and that is not playing it smart," Taylor said. (For talking points on the issues of sales tax, small business health plans, and the First Amendment rights, click here 6 .) Noting that his favorite book is Howard Frank Mosher's Waiting for Teddy Williams (Mariner), Taylor compared independent retailers to the Boston Red Sox -- the David to the New York Yankees' Goliath. Like the Sox, he said, independents can defy the odds and beat the corporate retail giants. "This is a great time to be an innovator or an entrepreneur," he said. "You can outthink them -- the strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the Sample Letter strong." The airline industry is a net money loser, Taylor said, "but amid all of this one company is making money -- Southwest Airlines." And he attributed the airline's success to its being the industry's one Maverick player. Store Name Address "They rethought what it is to be Southwest Airlines," Taylor continued. "They said, 'We're not in the airline or in the transportation business -- we're in the freedom business.'" Dear______: Southwest challenged conventional wisdom. "No first-class seats, no assigned seats -- they're playing by different rules. Ask yourself: Thanks so much for meeting with me when I visited Capitol Hill on Is there really a distinctive and disruptive idea at the heart of my Wednesday, May 17, as a part of the American Booksellers Association company?" He added: "What do you see about your business that Legislative Day. I appreciated your time and interest. the big boys don't?" As an example of a small company that's had a big influence on its I hope I can count on your support to help ensure that small businesses like marketplace, LaBarre pointed to the website Craig's List, a no frills mine can have access to affordable health care. This is an issue of major online, national classifieds page. "Craig's List ... is a worldwide importance to us, and we urge you to be a part of the effort to support sensation," she said. The website is "low key" and is built on "a some compromise legislation this year. In addition, I hope we can count on very simple model." It provides a place for a community of users to you to be certain that the public disclosure sections of the recently reenacted USA Patriot Act are enforced, specifically with regard to the swap books, look for apartments, etc., she said. "It's bare bones, it's timely reporting of Section 215 searches in bookstores and libraries. anti-commercial. It's a viable business that isn't aspiring to be a Google.... It's the ultimate David & Goliath story." LaBarre said that Craig's List, which supports its operations by I hope you've had a chance to fill out our "What Are Your Reading"

© 2005 American Booksellers Association. http://news.bookweb.org/ 2 BOOKSELLING THIS WEEK June 01, 2006 charging businesses "below-market rates" for help wanted ads in . Publishers who are interested in making a presentation or in San Francisco, New York City, and Los Angeles, does not worry displaying at the Trunk Show should contact NAIBA Executive about branding. "They try to figure out ways not to charge Director Eileen Dengler. customers, and they have no interest in competing." But she added, "They are a deadly competitor of the newspaper business." BTW New Briefs Said Taylor, "One of the tough questions and the most powerful is May 31, 2006 -- to ask yourself, if you went out of business tomorrow, who would miss you and why?" Obviously, if no one would miss you, there's Elm Street Books Will Reopen "something wrong with how your company is thinking of its customers.... You need to create a psychological contact with your Elm Street Books in New Canaan, Connecticut, is expected to customers. You need to be a memorable company to do business reopen this summer at a new location, according to the New York with." Times. One of the owners, Susan Rein, said the store will be 1,800 square feet, about half the size of the previous location, and at a "You don't have to make [your store] theatrical to make it busier Elm Street section. High rent had caused the store to close memorable," LaBarre said, noting that customers are eager to about two months ago. Rein said the store's lower rent will increase connect with an organization that stands out from the crowd. the likelihood of survival, the Times reported. Eight people are The authors also urged booksellers in the room to grapple with a investing in the new store, which will be connected to a café. The tough question: "When I walk into a bookstore, it all feels the same bookstore is slated to open in mid-August. to me. What's next?" He noted that Commerce Bank has changed the notion of traditional banking by staying open late and being California Candidate Sought to Aid B&N in Tax Fight open on Sundays. The bank has added fun to retail banking by offering a "penny arcade" where customers can deposit coins in According to the L.A. Times , California gubernatorial candidate exchange for bills. "What is your industry's next penny arcade?" and state controller Steve Westly aided Barnes & Noble in its fight Taylor said. --David Grogan 8 to avoid paying nearly $23 million in taxes on online sales at the same time he was seeking campaign support from the bookstore chain. The Times noted that Westly had been working with Barnes To read an earlier BTW interview with Taylor and LeBarre about & Noble since 2004 on its efforts to be forgiven the sales taxes, their maverick business strategies and philosophies and how they 9 interest, and penalties that state auditors found Barnes & Noble can benefit booksellers, click here . owes for years of online sales. BarnesandNoble.com is now voluntarily collecting sales tax on online sales (read a related story NAIBA to Hold Second Trunk Show 12 ); however, the bookstore chain is fighting the ruling on back May 31, 2006 -- 10 The New Atlantic Independent Booksellers taxes in court. The Times noted that other members of the State Association (NAIBA) will hold its second publishers' "Trunk Board of Equalization rebuffed Westly's efforts, and the case Show" on Tuesday, June 13, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the remains in court. According to the paper, Westly has received Holiday Inn Carrier Circle in Syracuse, New York. The Trunk $8,700 from the chain's executives. Members of a law firm and an Show will feature formal catalog presentations by major publishers, accounting firm that represent the company gave several thousand along with display tables from a variety of publishers, wholesalers, more. Laura Riggio, wife of Stephen Riggio, CEO of Barnes & and independent rep groups. "It allows booksellers who don't Noble gave $5,000. usually see reps to hear reps as a group and also meet with publishers, rep groups, and wholesalers individually," said Rob Librarians Speak Out in Patron Records Case Stahl, a NAIBA board member and general book manager of On May 30, as reported in the New York Times, four Connecticut Colgate Bookstore in Hamilton, New York. librarians who had been barred from revealing they had received a "We got a lot of positive response from booksellers about last government request for patrons' records under the USA Patriot Acts year's show," Stahl told BTW. "I'm really hoping it's going to be an spoke out at a press conference. The librarians, George Christian, annual tradition. It's a great opportunity for independent Barbara Bailey, Peter Chase, and Janet Nocek expressed their booksellers and publishers to get together, especially in a region "frustration about the sweeping powers given to law enforcement where we do feel disconnected." authorities by the USA Patriot Act," according to the Times . On The show will start at 9:00 a.m. with a complimentary continental April 12, the Department of Justice (DOJ) lifted a gag order that breakfast. Publishers will conduct formal presentations from 9:30 had prevented them from discussing their receipt of a National a.m. to 1:00 p.m. These will be followed by a complimentary lunch Security Letter (NSL) demanding patron records as part of a for all attendees. In addition to giving booksellers a chance to see counter-terrorism investigation. The Times noted that the librarians publishers' presentations and to get personal input from reps, the opposed "the government's unchecked power to demand library records and were particularly incensed at having been subject to the show provides an opportunity to learn about publishers' marketing 13 plans, promotions, and author tours. Formal presentations end in open-ended nondisclosure order." (Read more about this case .) the early afternoon, but informal meetings and discussions will continue throughout the day. Currently scheduled for formal Canadian Chain Removes June Issue of Harper's presentations are Fulcrum, Penguin, HarperCollins, Hachette Book As reported in the Globe and Mail , Indigo, Canada's largest retail Group, Houghton Mifflin, Holtzbrinck, and John Wiley. bookseller, removed all copies of the June issue of Harper's The Trunk Show is complimentary for NAIBA members and $25 Magazine from its 260 stores, because it feared that an article by per person for non-members. Registration is through NAIBA at cartoonist Art Spiegelman could spark protests similar to those (877) 866-2422; fax: (516) 333-0689; or e-mail: [email protected] 11 evoked by the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet

Mohammed in a Danish newspaper this past September. Indigo "over $200,000 worth of publicity" and that her store's business Books and Music removed the issue when executives saw that the was up 20 percent last November and 10 percent in December -- 10-page Harper's article, "Drawing Blood," included the 12 something she attributed in large part to the power of Local First. cartoons first published by Jyllands-Posten . Harper's publisher The keys to establishing a successful local retail alliance, said the John MacArthur said he was shocked by the removal of the issue, panelists, are recognizing the many resources available and a in part because two large U.S. chains are selling it. "I'd expect an willingness to play a leadership role. The panelists encouraged American company to do this, not a Canadian," MacArthur said, booksellers to turn to such organizations as the American according to the Globe and Mail . "Even though you have tougher Independent Business Alliance (AMIBA) 14 , the Business Alliance libel laws than us and your own versions of political correctness, to for Local Living Economies (BALLE) 15 , and The New Rules my mind [Canada] has always been a freer place for political Project 16 , which offer a wide range of information and support. discourse." Also, they urged booksellers to tap into the experience of existing local business alliances and to readily re-purpose their ideas and marketing materials. Local Business Organizers Encourage "The key is to not reinvent the wheel," said Teicher. Booksellers to Build Community Efforts Booksellers have a unique role to play in leadership, Burton said. May 31, 2006 -- Booksellers attending the panel on local business As independent bookstores grow in importance as community alliances -- "Shop Local: Forming Business Alliances in Your centers, other small businesses and customers look to booksellers Community" -- on Thursday, May 18, at BookExpo America heard for leadership. The involvement of independent bookstores "only from three seasoned organizers on behalf of local businesses who underscores your place at the heart of the community." Mitchell encouraged them to strengthen their efforts on behalf of both their noted that a Buy Local campaign that trumpets "a message of individual businesses and their communities. economic self-reliance and community self-determination [will All of the panelists cited the significant challenges facing appeal] to people's deeper aspirations" by showing how their independent businesses nationwide. Michael H. Shuman, vice decisions can help foster the "local, healthy, independent president for enterprise development for Training & Development communities we all want to live in." Mitchell related that the Corporation said that on both the local and national levels more "Think Local, Be Local, Buy Local" business alliance, established than $100 billion "of pork going the wrong way" was spent in in Northwest Washington three years ago, has created such a high efforts to either attract or retain "non-local businesses." Shuman is level of consumer awareness that members "are routinely getting the author of The Small-Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses calls asking if they are locally owned." Are Beating the Global Competition (Berrett-Koehler). A key message to convey, said Burton, is that "the difference Because independently owned, local businesses "get almost none of between us and the chains is enormous" in the amount of money the equity financing in the country," Shuman said, "it is extremely returned to the local community. All the panelists noted that difficult for any one business on its own to create a 'small-mart corporate chain stores actually siphon money out of a community, revolution.'" However, Betsy Burton of The King's English in Salt as approximately 70 percent of the dollars spent in an Lake City noted, "You have an enormous amount of clout in your independently owned retail business remains in the local economy, community collectively." Moderator Oren Teicher, ABA COO, versus only about 30 percent spent in a chain store. Mitchell also stressed the importance of the discussion when he told the spoke of "the hidden costs" of retail chains, citing studies that have approximately 70 booksellers that forming an alliance of locally shown superstores eliminate more jobs in a community than they owned, independent businesses "is perhaps the single most create and that communities see, on average, a net loss of 180 jobs important thing you can do to develop your business." and $2 million in the local payroll. She said studies have shown that communities characterized by locally owned businesses have a Shuman said, "I am fairly optimistic about the way things could lower crime rate and a higher rate of civic activities, including go" with a concerted effort on the part of independent businesses. voter turnout and participation in organizations such as local school And Stacy Mitchell, senior researcher for the Institute for Local boards. Self-Reliance, pointed to some heartening statistics indicating that there were 400 more independently owned pharmacies in 2006 than These economic facts garner political respect. Burton told the in the previous year and that the independent bookstore market audience that meetings between Utah's Buy Local campaign and share was showing modest gains over recent years. Mitchell is the elected officials have been productive. Since incorporating as a author of The Home Town Advantage: How to Defend Your Main 501c3 nonprofit organization, the campaign has received Street Against Chain Stores ... and Why It Matters (ILSR) and the approximately $60,000 in state and local funding for its Big-Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight "educational mission." for America's Independent Businesses , which will be published in Shop Local success stories are spreading: More than 36 local November by Beacon. business alliances were founded over the past five years, said The key, the panelists said, is to work with other independent Mitchell, and the Austin Independent Business Alliance -- businesses in establishing local business alliances. Burton said that co-founded in 2002 by Steve Bercu of BookPeople in Austin, Texas -- has grown to "collectively [become] the city's fifth largest participating in an active local independent alliance "can do more 17 for your bottom line than any Lemony Snicket or J.K. Rowling." employer." --Dan Cullen Burton is one of the founders of Local First in Utah, a campaign to For more information about the locally owned business impact encourage residents of the state to patronize locally owned 18 businesses. The group organized a statewide "Buy Local First studies and links to related organizations, click here . Week" last fall, and in its first year the campaign included approximately 500 businesses. Burton said the campaign generated Threats to Press Freedom Focus of BEA Panel © 2005 American Booksellers Association. http://news.bookweb.org/ 4 BOOKSELLING THIS WEEK June 01, 2006

May 31, 2006 -- A distinguished panel of journalists and authors that the war was being lost." discussed "Threats to Press Freedom in the War on Terrorism," on Following Raines, Marlette told the audience that there are fewer Saturday, May 20, at BookExpo America. The event, co-sponsored and fewer good political cartoonists. "Twenty years ago there were by the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression 250 [political] cartoonists working. The number of cartoonists (ABFFE), the American Library Association's Freedom to Read working now is 70," he said. This trend is due in part to what Foundation, and the Association of American Publishers' Freedom Marlette termed the "corporate culture of niceness," which makes to Read Committee, focused on how threats to press freedom the press fearful of being offensive or controversial. diminish the ability of the American people to monitor the activities of the government. Calling himself an "equal opportunity offender" Marlette said that his cartoons have come under attack from both the left and the Deborah Mathis, former White House and national correspondent right. Often, when liberals or conservatives claim they believe in for the Gannett News Service and author of Yet a Stranger: Why free speech, what they really mean is "they believe in free speech Black Americans Still Don't Feel at Home (Warner) and What God for themselves," he said. "[Political cartoonists] don't apologize for Can Do (Atria), moderated the panel featuring Myra MacPherson, our opinions." former Washington Post reporter and author of All Governments Lie: The Life and Times of Rebel Journalist I.F. Stone (Scribner); Marlette then showed a series of slides featuring some of his more Howell Raines, former executive editor of the New York Times and controversial cartoons, including satirical takes on President author of The One That Got Away: A Memoir (Scribner); and Doug Clinton, President Bush, and Mohammed. He expressed his Marlette, syndicated political cartoonist and author of Magic Time disappointment with the American press for being afraid to run the (FSG). controversial Mohammed cartoons following the violence that erupted on their publication in Denmark. "The press in this country Noting that threats to a free press began soon after President Bush appeased the terrorists [by refusing to run the Danish cartoon]," he took office, said. "They abdicated to a street mob." Mathis told the audience that prior to 9/11 Attorney General John The panel concluded with a short discussion about blogging and Ashcroft issued a memo stating that if the administration believed how this has created, for some, a free speech dilemma since a records sought under a Freedom of Information Act request should blogger can write anything about anyone, and true or not, it be withheld, "the Department of Justice will defend your request." becomes widely disseminated. "I have a real problem with She said that this represented a marked turnaround from the Clinton bloggers," Mathis said. "Bloggers are like karaoke singers.... administration's position, and she noted, "Janet Reno said ... we They're unedited writers.... That stuff gets out on the Internet, and it should err on the side of disclosure." is very dangerous." --David Grogan 19 Praising booksellers for helping to amend Section 215 of the Patriot Act, Mathis added, "There were some improvements -- there's Booksellers Highlight Summer Favorites [now] a little bit of leeway in challenging [a Section 215 order]." at BEA Following Mathis, MacPherson discussed her work researching the life and times of I.F. Stone and talked about how the rebel May 30, 2006 -- "The Frontline Booksellers' Summer Picks," part journalist -- who was constantly "hounded by Hoover" in the of the programming at last month's BookExpo America, featured a mid-1930s -- might feel about the present state of politics. "First of panel of independent booksellers who each highlighted a handful of all, somebody asked me what would Izzy be saying about Fox their top spring/summer picks. The panel included Mark News, and he would be saying that they are collaborationists [for LaFramboise of Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C.; the Bush administration agenda], as he once called the New York Laura Grey of Shaman Drum Bookshop in Ann Arbor, Michigan; Times ," she said. Kari Patch of Harvard Bookstore in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Jessica Stockton of McNally Robinson in New York City; and If journalist Stone was anything, MacPherson noted, it was brave. Stuart Hecht of The Book Vault in Wallingford, Connecticut. The Stone didn't worry about speaking out against whatever progam was sponsored by Pages Magazine. administration was in charge if it was doing something wrong. And she stressed how today it is more important than ever that Grey introduced the panel and explained that the scheduled host, journalists -- and civilians alike -- be the same way. "It takes real Robert Gray, formerly of Northshire Bookstore in Manchester guts, and I applaud all of you who are fighting the Patriot Act," she Center, Vermont, was unable to attend for health-related reasons. said. By way of introducing the booksellers' handselling favorites, Grey read from a posting on Gray's blog, www.fresheyesnow.com 20 . In Of today's press corps, MacPherson said, "I don't see enough "What Is Handselling?" Grey describes the act as "a private outrage" toward the current administration. conversation between one bookseller and one reader. Sometimes Mathis asked Raines if any present-day journalist reminds him of it's about sales, and sometimes it isn't. Great handsellers don't I.F. Stone, to which Raines replied, "I know of no one who is just 'sell' you a book anyway; they make it irresistible, passing a remotely resembling I.F. Stone." He explained "reporters are more gift from reader to reader." timid than in the past." On the other hand, he continued, reporters Here are the panel's summer favorites: cannot simply come out and claim that someone in any administration lied simply because they think they did. "Since Laura Grey reporters lack subpoena power, if they're going to claim someone • Voices of Time: A Life in Stories by Eduardo Galeano lied, it's something they need to prove. And that's a wall that's not (Metropolitan) easily penetrated." • Come Together, Fall Apart by Cristina Henriquez (Riverhead) • Theft by Peter Carey (Knopf) Raines added that it takes time to prove someone is lying, and he • The Unfinished Novel and Other Stories by Valerie Martin noted, "It took over five years for stories [to come out of Viet Nam] (Vintage)

• Stuart: A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters (Delacorte) May 29, 2006 -- American Booksellers Association affinity partner • Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (Algonquin) AAA Label has announced that its newly expanded facilities now allows it to offer ABA members a wider range of low-tack book Jessica Stockton stickers in simple black-and-white designs. In addition, AAA Label • Adverbs by Daniel Handler (Ecco) has begun accepting payment via Visa or MasterCard. The • Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife by Sam Savage, company also notes that booksellers can save up to 80 percent off Michael Mikolowski (Illustrator) (Coffee House) custom-sticker rolls. • Black Swan Green by David Mitchell (Random House) • The Lost Colony Book One : The Snodgrass Conspiracy by AAA Label's most popular designs include "Staff Pick," "Autographed Copy," and "Local Author." Booksellers can preview Grady Klein (First Second) 24 • Sacco And Vanzetti Must Die! by Mark Binelli (Dalkey Archive) these and other designs through a downloadable order form (PDF format) on ABA's trade website, BookWeb.org 25 . Questions may also be addressed to AAA Label's Laura Moore at Mark LaFramboise 26 • Whistling Season by Ivan Doig (Harcourt) [email protected] . • Taking Care of Cleo by Bill Broder (Handsel) Book Sense Picks and Book Sense Bestseller stickers are available • Guests of the Ayatollah : The First Battle in America's War With directly from ABA at $5 for a roll of 500 by calling (800) Militant Islam by Mark Bowden (Atlantic Monthly) 637-0037, ext. 6636 or 6635. A downloadable order form 27 for • River of No Reprieve: Descending Siberia's Waterway of Exile, Book Sense stickers and other ABA/Book Sense merchandise is Death, and Destiny by Jeffrey Tayler (Houghton Mifflin) available on the Products & Services 28 page of BookWeb. Kari Patch • Tam Lin by Pamela Dean (Puffin) • The Dairy Queen by Catherine Murdock (Houghton Mifflin) • The Horizontal World by Debra Marquart (Counterpoint)

Stuart Hecht • The Prisoner of Guantanamo by Dan Fesperman (Knopf) • Grail Conspiracy by Joe Moore, Lynn Sholes (Midnight Ink) The July Book Sense Picks & Notables • The Book of Flying by Keith Miller (Riverhead Trade) Preview • A Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier (Pantheon) June 01, 2006 -- Here is the full listing of the July 2006 Book Sense Picks, with booksellers' comments, as well as a preview of BEA Offers Podcast of Updike Speech the month's Notables. Independent booksellers in the Book Sense About Books & Bookstores program will be receiving their July Picks fliers in the June Red Box. (The flier includes jacket images, bibliographic information, May 30, 2006 -- A podcast of John Updike's speech at the Saturday, and bookseller quotes.) May 20, Book & Author Breakfast at BookExpo America (BEA) is 29 Also available are the June Notables flier with jacket images and now available through the BEA website, 30 booksellers' comments and shelf-talkers , both in PDF format. www.bookexpoamerica.com 21 , or by going directly to 22 www.bookexpocast.com . Updike, who had been expected to talk The July 2006 Book Sense Picks about his new book, Terrorist (Knopf), instead delivered a passionate address about books and booksellers. Referring to 1. BETWEEN, GEORGIA: A Novel , by Joshilyn Jackson bookstores as "citadels of light," Updike's speech ranged from (Warner, $22.99, 0446524425) "Following on the heels of Gods in memories of the independent bookstores of his youth and college Alabama , Joshilyn Jackson's new novel will be welcomed by days to a response to "Scan This Book," an article by Kevin Kelly readers and fans. A small (population 90) town with two feuding in the New York Times Magazine of May 14, about the families is drawn together by the infant Nonny -- born of the transforming effect of technology on books and libraries. Crabtrees, raised by the Freets." -- Mary Gay Shipley, That Other Podcasts currently available on the BEA site are this year's Bookstore In Blytheville, Blytheville, AR BEA Keynote Address by Tim Russert, host of Meet the Press and TWO TIME, by Chris Knopf (Permanent Press, $28, author of Wisdom of Our Fathers: Lessons and Letters From 1579621295) "From its explosive beginning to the satisfying Daughters and Sons (Random House), and an interview with Pat ending, Two Time is a story of murder, love, and money. The Schroeder, president and CEO of the Association of American writing is wonderful -- flowing and lyrical passages delight and the Publishers. atypical hero does exactly what he is supposed to do: Solve the Upcoming podcasts are scheduled to include the entire Saturday crime. A great summer read!" -- Jean Utley, Book'em Mysteries, Book & Author Breakfast, the Sunday Book & Author Breakfast, South Pasadena, CA and the Saturday Political Lunch. Available to the general public, TOMORROW THEY WILL KISS: A Novel , by Eduardo as well as book industry professionals, the podcasts are being Santiago (Back Bay, $13.99 paper, 0316014125) "Eduardo distributed by BEA over the next two months and will be available Santiago has created a kaleidoscope of female characters in a novel for up to one year from portals such as iTunes. A subscription 23 that is as irresistible and addictive as a telenovela. His Cuban form is available at www.bookexpocast.com . women in exile will wrap you up in their stories, as they illuminate the immigrant experience in a tapestry of memory, dreams, Affinity Partner Offers New Label friendship, nostalgia, and humor." -- Cristina Nosti, Books & Designs, New Payment Options Books, Coral Gables, FL

THE DRESSMAKER: A Novel , by Elizabeth Birkelund -- Matt Lage, Iowa Book, LLC, Iowa City, IA Oberbeck (Holt, $23, 0805080333) "This delightful love story PIECE OF MY HEART: A Novel of Suspense , by Peter between a tailor and a woman for whom he is fashioning a wedding Robinson (Morrow, $24.95, 006054435X) "If you grew up in the dress is as frothy as the tulle wedding veil on a masterpiece gown. era of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll, pay attention because Peter The characters are instantly likeable and well drawn, and the Robinson's latest pairs a case from 1969 with one from the present, setting (France and the Parisian world of couture) delights. Having and each involves rock music and murder. We're treated to a a male protagonist and telling the story from his perspective gives wonderful ramble through the music of the time and through the the reader a truly different way to think about the highs and lows of lives of the musicians, groupies, and fans involved in that world. A a once-in-a-lifetime affaire de coeur ." -- Gladys Levis-Pilz, first-rate mystery." -- Betsy Burton, The King's English, Salt HearthFire Books of Evergreen, Evergreen, CO Lake City, UT ROCK OF AGES, by Howard Owen (Permanent Press, $26, WINKIE, by Clifford Chase (Grove, $16.95, 0802118305) 1579621287) "Owen's Rock of Ages is further proof that he is a "Clifford Chase has written an absurdly believable novel that Southern novelist not to be overlooked. Revisiting the setting of sharply parodies our unbelievably absurd times; a refreshing dose Scots County, North Carolina, this story of guilt, lust, and murder of political satire that respects your intelligence as well as your had me emotionally gripped on every page." -- Kelly Justice, The funny bone." -- Gerry Donaghy, Powell's City of Books, Fountain Bookstore, Richmond, VA Portland, OR FIRMIN: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife , by Sam Savage CHOSEN BY A HORSE: A Memoir , by Susan Richards (Soho, (Coffee House, $14.95 paper, 1566891817) "This story of a literate $20, 1569474192) "Richards has woven a marvelous read, rat born in a bookstore is the kind of novel that pulls readers in with delicately entwining her life with those of her horses. One in its very premise -- its absurdity and zaniness leaving me to wonder particular, Lay Me Down, is her soul mate, and the two heal one how in the world it could possibly be pulled off in a believable and another's wounds from the past on their journey through life. Sad at meaningful way. Yet it happens. I loved the book more and more the end, but beautiful and positive all at the same time. This is truly with each page." -- Hans Weyandt, Micawber's Bookstore, Saint a wonderful, tender book." -- Wendy Kerop, The Turning Page, Paul, MN Old Lyme, CT THE BIRTHDAYS: A Novel , by Heidi Pitlor (Norton, $23.95, EYE CONTACT: A Novel , by Cammie McGovern (Viking, 0393061272) "When the Miller family travels to the coast of $24.95, 0670037656) "Here is a story about the murder of a Maine, their purpose is to celebrate their father's 75th birthday. 10-year-old girl during recess. However, the real mystery here is However, tragedy changes the atmosphere and challenges the autism, and McGovern's insight about it is the strength of this story. relationships among this dynamic family. A beautifully written Many of the book's characters have varying levels of autistic novel that explores the complexities and joys of family life, it will tendencies, their portraits are fascinating, as are the descriptions of remain with readers long after the story ends." -- Holly Frakes, the female caregivers and the effect that autism has on family Schuler Books & Music, Okemos, MI members." -- Mary Muller, Market Block Books, Troy, NY THE ART OF DETECTION: A Novel of Suspense , by Laurie ERRORS AND OMISSIONS: A Novel , by Paul Goldstein R. King (Bantam, $24, 0553804537) "King's novel opens with the (Doubleday, $24.95, 0385517173) "Facing certain disbarment for murder of a man who is an avid collector of Sherlock Holmes being drunk in a judge's chambers, and with his marriage on the memorabilia, including what may be an unpublished manuscript rocks, attorney Michael Seeley is a man in crisis when he flies to from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself. Could the value of the Los Angeles to complete some seemingly routine legal work for a manuscript be the motive for the man's death? Read it to find out. motion picture studio. Instead, he unearths a hornet's nest of You won't be disappointed." -- Jessilyn Krebs, McLean & Eakin betrayal, corruption, and murder. With cinematic prose, Goldstein Booksellers, Petoskey, MI has written a tight, entertaining legal thriller worthy of Grisham." -- THE YELLOW-LIGHTED BOOKSHOP: A Memoir, A History Anne Wagner, Porter Square Books, Cambridge, MA , by Lewis Buzbee (Graywolf, $17, 1555974503) "Settle down in a CLUELESS GEORGE IS WATCHING YOU!, by Pat Bagley cozy chair in your favorite independent bookstore to read this love (White Horse, $7.95 paper, 097448606X) "Great comic relief at a letter to books and bookstores. The essays explore Buzbee's time when we most need it. Pat Bagley encapsulates, or should I experiences with book lust as well as bibliophilia through the ages. say cans, what has to be the modus operandi of this An extremely welcome addition to every book lover's collection of administration." -- Janet Bollum, The Muse Book Shop, Deland, books about books." -- Dana Harper, Brystone Children's FL Books, Fort Worth, TX THE DEVIL AND MISS PRYM: A Novel of Temptation , by PEGASUS DESCENDING: A Dave Robicheaux Novel , by Paulo Coelho (HarperCollins, $24.95, 0060527994) "This is a James Lee Burke (Simon & Schuster, $26, 0743277724) "Dave small, meaty tale of Good, Evil, Temptation, Life and Death. I Robicheaux will always be haunted by the memories of his past. couldn't stop reading." -- Becky Milner, Vintage Books, However, for the readers of James Lee Burke, it's a blessing. In his Vancouver, WA most powerful and evocative novel yet, two murders, one past and one present, threaten to drag everyone involved into the grave." -- THE CATASTROPHIST: A Novel , by Lawrence Douglas Geoffrey B. Jennings, Rainy Day Books, Fairway, KS (Other Press, $24.95, 1590512197) "Douglas has created a tragicomic academic novel that dances nimbly along the TERRORIST: A Novel , by John Updike (Knopf, $24.95, appallingly misguided life of Holocaust studies professor Daniel 0307264653) " Terrorist is the best Updike novel I've read in years. Wellington, as he stumbles from one catastrophe of his own In this story of 18-year-old Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy, the son of an making to another. Jumping from a small academic New England Irish-American mother and an Egyptian father, Updike's capacity to town to Berlin and London and back again, the book is witty, channel so many disparate voices creates a virtuoso performance." well-written, and filled with shrewd observations on contemporary

© 2005 American Booksellers Association. http://news.bookweb.org/ 7 BOOKSELLING THIS WEEK June 01, 2006 cultural life." -- Nat Herold, Amherst Books, Amherst, MA 0399153594) NO GOOD DEEDS: A Tess Monaghan Novel , by Laura THE WORTHY: A Ghost's Story , by Will Clarke (Simon & Lippman (Morrow, $24.95, 0060570725) "What a great book! In Schuster, $23, 074327315X) this story about the unsolved murder of a young federal prosecutor, Tess Monaghan and her boyfriend, Edgar 'Crow' Ransome, are growing as people -- and Laura Lippman is growing as a writer." -- Diggitt McLaughlin, Good Yarns Bookshop, Hastings on SPECIAL OFFERS • Order five or more copies of the July Book Sense Pick, FIRMIN: Adventures Hudson, NY of a Metropolitan Lowlife (Coffee House, $14.95 paper, 1566891817), through Consortium Book Sales & Distribution and receive a 50% discount and The July 2006 Book Sense Notables bookplates signed by the author. Offer good through July 31. Please contact Consortium at 1-800-283-3572 (fax 651-221-0124) and use code CP00139 Fiction when placing your order. CALLING OUT, by Rae Meadows (MacAdam Cage, $22, • Visit www.kensingtonbooks.com 31 to download free promotional items for 159692165X) your store including an e-postcard, poster, endcap sign and shelf talker for DUCHESS OF AQUITAINE: A Novel of Eleanor , by Margaret TWEAKED by Patrick Moore (0-7582-1265-8, $15.00), a July Book Sense Ball (St. Martin's, $25.95, 0312205333) Notable Book. LAST BITE, by Nancy Verde Barr (Algonquin, $22.95, 1565124952) Anthology Integrates With Book Sense SAVE YOUR OWN, by Elisabeth Brink (Houghton, $23, Gift Cards 0618651144) May 31, 2006 -- Book Sense and POS vendor Anthology have SWEET RUIN, by Cathi Hanauer (Atria, $24, 0743277341) announced that Anthology users can begin selling and redeeming TENDERWIRE, by Claire Kilroy (Harvest, $14 paper, Book Sense gift cards directly from the cash register. The Book 015603204X) Nonfiction Sense Gift Card Module was released this spring with Visual Anthology, Version 5. Anthology is the fifth POS vendor to BASILICA: The Splendor and the Scandal: Building St. Peter's , 32 integrate with the Book Sense Gift Card Program , which is by R. A. Scotti (Viking, $25.95, 0670037761) administered by Givex. Other POS vendors certified to process DANCING UNDER THE RED STAR: The Extraordinary Story Book Sense gift cards are BookLog, Computac/Square One, IBID, of Margaret Werner, the Only American Woman to Survive and WordStock. Stalin's Gulag , by Karl Tobien (WaterBrook, $14.95 paper, To integrate Book Sense gift card processing, booksellers must 1400070783) have Anthology's integrated Credit Card Processing HOTEL CALIFORNIA: The True-life Adventures of Crosby, Module. Information about pricing for the module is available from Stills, Nash, Young, Mitchell, Taylor, Browne, Ronstadt, Geffen, Anthology's director of sales, Jim Bean, at (800) 392-1726 or the Eagles, and Their Many Friends , by Barney Hoskyns [email protected] 33 . (Wiley, $25.95, 0471732737) Systems that already have integrated credit card processing can add THE HUNDRED-YEAR LIE: How Food and Medicine Are on the Gift Card Module for a one-time fee of $250. In addition, Destroying Your Health , by Randall Fitzgerald (Dutton, $24.95, there is a $50 yearly support fee, plus a $10 fee per additional 0525949518) station per year. PROUST AT THE MAJESTIC: The Last Days of the Author Questions about the Book Sense Gift Card Program should be Whose Book Changed Paris , by Richard Davenport-Hines addressed to ABA Marketing Director Jill Perlstein at (800) (Bloomsbury, $24.95, 158234471X) 637-0037, ext. 6642 or [email protected] 34 . Questions about PUBLIC RADIO: Behind the Voices , by Lisa A. Phillips (CDS Anthology should be addressed to Bean. Books, $25, 1593151438) RUMSPRINGA: To Be or Not to Be Amish , by Tom Island Bookstore in Duck, Corolla, and Shachtman (North Point, $24, 086547687X) Kitty Hawk, North Carolina SONG FOR MY FATHERS: A New Orleans Story in Black and May 31, 2006 -- After 10 years of running two bookstores primarily White , by Tom Sancton (Other Press, $24.95, 159051243X) for tourists on the Outer Banks of the North Carolina coast, Bill and Ursula Rickman have added a third location, intended to attract TWEAKED: A CRYSTAL MEMOIR , by Patrick Moore year-round residents, in the historic community of Kitty Hawk. All (Kensington, $15 paper, 0758212658) 35 three locations are named Island Bookstore . The first, opened 15 UNDERWATER TO GET OUT OF THE RAIN: A Love Affair years ago and purchased by the Rickmans in 1996, is in the town of With the Sea , by Trevor Norton (Perseus, $25, 0306814870) Duck; the second, in Corolla, was opened by the Rickmans in Mystery/Suspense 2001; and the Kitty Hawk location opened on May 8. A grand THE ABORTIONIST'S DAUGHTER, by Elisabeth Hyde opening for the Kitty Hawk store is slated for the second or third (Knopf, $23.95, 0307263665) week in June. BLACK ORDER, by James Rollins (Morrow, $24.95, Each week, roughly from Memorial Day to Labor Day, 300,000 to 0060763884) 400,000 people make the slow trip across the Wright Memorial Bridge, to reach the northern end of North THE LAST ASSASSIN, by Barry Eisler (Putnam, $24.95, Carolina's barrier islands. Many have one-week vacation rentals

© 2005 American Booksellers Association. http://news.bookweb.org/ 8 BOOKSELLING THIS WEEK June 01, 2006 and hail from New York, Washington, D.C., Virginia, and all explained. "We have 400 titles, with a very wide selection -- points in between. Visitors to the area often visit Duck and Corolla literary, science, lifestyle." The Kitty Hawk store will also display on rainy days to enjoy the boutique shops and restaurants. summer reading lists and hold summer programs connected to the Bill Rickman came to the area after spending 30 years as a schools. Discounts will be offered for teachers and frequent bookseller at Kroch's & Brentano's in Chicago, where he rose to the customers to help build local interest in the new store. position of president and CEO. He and Ursula began their new venture with a one-story store in Duck. Since then, they have Leenaarts, who also handles the store's advertising, events, and expanded it to include the second floor, and the store now offers public relations, finds a lot of work easier now that the store has more than 44,000 titles in 2,400 square feet. In 2001, in nearby begun using Constant Contact to manage its e-mail newsletter. "I Corolla, home of the Currituck Beach Lighthouse, the Rickmans love Constant Contact -- the more I play with it, the more I expand built a second store, of similar size, on the site of an old general what I can do with it." store. The Island stores all post the weekly Book Sense Bestseller List Rickman, who served on the ABA Board while at Kroch's and and then discount the week's hardcover bestsellers. Leenaarts told Brentano's in the 1980's, said that he and his wife looked for a BTW that they distribute the Book Sense Picks lists to all customers community where they could actively handsell. "Initially we started and make a point of having all of the books on those lists. looking in many good bookselling communities," said Rickman. Sometimes authors contact Leenaarts because they want to "The niche we discovered was in seasonal stores, like in the Outer combine a trip to the area with a reading, an arrangement that often Banks, where the big chains weren't rolling out. And we found works out very well for both parties. Other authors appearing at the more readers than we could have hoped for." store are local favorites. In June, popular author David Payne will All three Island Bookstore locations are open year-round, closed read from his new book, Back to Wando Passo (HarperCollins), at only on Christmas Day, but business does not boom in the two the Duck store. And sometimes an author writes a book with a title tourist towns other than during the three or four months of summer so evocative that many visitors to the area, and local residents, will and near-summer. Marketing manager Meaghan Leenaarts told no doubt want to meet the writer and take a copy home. This year that would have to be Maria Hudgin's mystery, published by Five BTW that the staff continues to work during the quiet fall and 36 winter months and the stores are still open everyday, albeit the Star, Death of an Obnoxious Tourist . --Nomi Schwartz hours are shorter during the off-season. Correction "We plan for the summer, catch up on paperwork, contact authors, schedule readings, and events," Leenaarts said. However, selling May 29, 2006 -- The Summer 2006 Book Sense Paperback Picks 37 books, even in the winter, has become easier since Island list incorrectly attributed the bookstore in the quote recommending Bookstore launched a BookSense.com site. "The first year was kind Evening Ferry by Katherine Towler. It should have noted that of slow," Leenaarts told BTW. "But in the last six months, we've Karen Vail's store is Armchair Bookstore located in Dennis, MA. gotten a lot of business. Summer people order books from their Book Sense apologizes for the error. homes and others order online and then come in to pick up the books. People also find out about events, like author signings, and, if they can't come, they can reserve copies through the site. Feedback is very good." The new store in Kitty Hawk has been developed with a different marketing strategy. In announcing the opening, Rickman said that he "looks forward to catering to the needs of year-round residents from Southern Shores to Nags Head. For years, we've met the Classifieds demands of a seasonal crowd in Corolla and Duck. Now we'd like to provide for locals a great general bookstore with an excellent BOOKSTORES FOR SALE selection of current hardcovers and paperbacks, book club Cricket's Books and Gifts For Sale Located in beautiful selections, author signings, and, new to the Outer Banks, an downtown Sausalito, CA, this quaint bookshop features vintage extensive selection of magazines and periodicals." Books on all children's books, new and used books, music, and more. Turnkey subjects will be stocked, and, like the other two stores, 25 percent operation available immediately. For more information, call Mark of the inventory will be devoted to children. at (415) 331-1233 or e-mail at [email protected] 45 . Leenaarts talked to BTW about the bookstore's goal of promoting Independent Books is located in the heart of the main town on the concept of local residents supporting local businesses. "For a lot Washington's wild and beautiful Long Beach Peninsula. of our year-round residents, the perception is that there are better Well-established and popular with both locals and visitors, this deals on books at big box stores or online. By opening a location in general bookstore is firing on all cylinders. 60-40-10 the heart of 'town,' we're hoping to not only to alter that perception new-used-collectible. Please contact Gayle Borchard, PO Box 426, but also to encourage the notion of buying local. We are, Long Beach, WA 98631 or [email protected] 46 . essentially, a mom-and-pop community that supports one another. The goal is to maintain that sense of community. We are hoping to become a true locals' destination, and to encourage reading as FOR SALE well." Available for sale from closed store in Ohio: nine bookcases 6' x 4' Periodicals, Leenaarts said, will be a big draw for local shoppers. solid wood with maple veneer, three matching bins 4' wide, three "Other than at Wal-Mart or the supermarket, there is no place to 2-sided and seven 6' x 4' Maple Franklin Fixtures, two square buy magazines, and the selection there is very limited," she display tables with center rise, credit card processing equipment and supplies. Photos available via e-mail upon request. WILL

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