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April 09, 2009 message, as well as a link to their IndieBound Wish List 4 . Each TABLE OF CONTENTS: card can be sent to up to 10 recipients at a time. (To encourage • Spring E-Cards Now on IndieBound.org ...... 1 customers to create a Wish List, why not try the Spring Wish List Counter Card? ) 5 IndieBound.org's e-cards are not intended for • ABA Requests Meeting With New SBA large campaigns, but ABA members are encouraged to download Administrator ...... 1 the animations from the Bookseller DIY 6 for use in store • Moving Day for Two Indies ...... 2 newsletters and other mailings. • Maryland Booksellers Call on Colleagues to Also new to the Bookseller DIY are horizontal banners 7 of the Mobilize for E-Fairness ...... 2 three spring designs. For help working with these files, or anything else in the Bookseller DIY, contact IndieBound Outreach Liaison • Spotlight on ABA Board Candidate Beth Puffer 8 ...... 3 Paige Poe at (800) 637-0037, ext. 6668. • Congress Urged to Exempt Bookstore Records From Patriot Act ...... 3 ABA Requests Meeting With New SBA • New Free, Limited Edition Gift Card Available Administrator April 22 ...... 4 • Changing Hands Celebrates 35 Years ...... 4 April 09, 2009 -- Late last week, the American Booksellers Association sent congratulations to Karen Gordon Mills on her • Lunch With Indie Faves at BEA ...... 5 confirmation as Administrator of the U.S. Small Business • Around Indies ...... 5 Administration (SBA) and requested a meeting to discuss issues • BTW News Briefs ...... 6 specifically affecting independent bookstores. Mills' appointment • The Indie Finance & Personal Investing was confirmed unanimously by the Senate on Thursday evening, Bestseller List ...... 6 April 2. • Lisa Scottoline Loves Her Local Indie On behalf of the entire ABA membership, COO Oren Teicher wrote: "Our stores range in size from those employing one or two Bookstores ...... 7 people to bookstores grossing millions of dollars per year and • Hotel ABA: Sleep. Read. Network...... 7 employing hundreds. While each of our members is unique, they all • Paz & Associates Works With E-Commerce have one common bond: They are independently owned, and, in the Stores to Claim Co-op ...... 8 present economic crisis, they face formidable challenges. • Booksellers School @ BEA to Provide "Among their many concerns, the most pressing is access to Foundations for Success ...... 8 capital," Teicher continued. "In February, ABA's President, Gayle Shanks of Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe, Arizona, wrote • Special Promo Available on Credit Card the Congressional leadership urging them to support small Processing ...... 9 businesses in crafting the American Recovery and Reinvestment • ABA Board Elections: Still Time to Cast Your Act of 2009, and we were very pleased to hear in your remarks to Vote ...... 9 the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship your clear commitment to executing the plans in the Recovery Act to get capital flowing again through the core SBA loan programs. MARKETPLACE As you well know, helping locally owned, independent businesses • Classifieds ...... 9 stay in operation and, we hope, grow, is important for many • Other Advertising ...... 10 reasons, including the viability and health of America's cities and towns. Small businesses have a far greater economic impact on communities than larger, chain businesses, and they are largely responsible for our villages, towns, and cities retaining their unique Spring E-Cards Now on IndieBound.org characteristics." April 09, 2009 -- Whether it's for Mother's Day, Father's Day, Mills is founding partner and managing director of New graduation, or just to celebrate the sunshine and fresh air, spring is York-based Solera Capital and chair of Maine's Council on a great time to send a greeting to a loved one. Competitiveness and the Economy. She has also worked as a consultant for McKinsey & Co. and as a product manager for IndieBound.org now offers three new e-cards 1 , featuring 2 General Foods. Mills has an A.B. in Economics from Radcliff animations based on the spring IndieBound DIY designs . These College (Magna Cum Laude) and an MBA from Harvard Business cards provide a great way for indie-loving consumers to send a School. She is the daughter of Melvin and Ellen Gordon, the greeting -- and a powerful reminder to shop local -- to family and 3 husband-and-wife team who control and run Chicago-based friends. As with the holiday e-cards , users can add a custom Tootsie Roll Industries.

Prior to Mills' confirmation, ABA wrote to Sen. Mary Landrieu, square footage is just a bit larger, but I finally have a real office and chair of the U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and lots of storage space." Entrepreneurship, in support of her appointment. Sharp also plans to lease out space in the store to a cafe. "The cross At her confirmation hearing, Mills said as SBA head she would traffic from the food and coffee shoppers will be great, and I'll also focus on three important fronts: executing the plans in the have the space for events," she said. Recovery Act; reinvigorating the agency by attracting a strong and Nightbird's grand reopening and third birthday celebration will be passionate leadership team and investing in the information on April 25. The store will host a local author spotlight in the technology the agency needs to operate; and acting as an advocate morning, and Geoffrey and Van Brock will read their poems from for small business across the administration. She also noted that The Poets Guide to the Birds (edited by Judith Kitchen and Ted access to affordable health care is "always the number-one or Kooser, Anhinga Press. A local restaurant, Brick House Kitchen, [number-] two issue in every small business survey ... we need to will cater the event. provide this benefit. The costs are just not affordable. The President has made this a priority of his administration." She listed "pooling As with Danville, Nightbird had the help of customers for much of [health care] among small businesses," or "some sort of tax relief" the heavy lifting. "We moved every book in the store in four among the possible solutions. -- David Grogan 9 hours," Sharp said. "About two dozen people showed up to help move on Sunday, including the owners of the Dickson Street Book Moving Day for Two Indies Shop, the used bookstore one block west of me. Many more customers came by in the afternoon, but we were done! On April 09, 2009 -- Sunday, March 29, was moving day for two indie Monday, I had professionals move the cases and cash wrap. More bookstores -- nearly 40-year-old Rakestraw Books in Danville, volunteers showed up at midday to start shelving books as the cases California, and three-year-old Nightbird Books in Fayetteville, arrived." Arkansas. With a big assist from customers and friends, both stores The large aviary that's always been a part of the bookstore and were able to reopen quickly in their new digs. houses an assortment of 18 finches, doves, and canaries is on its Rakestraw Books way. Rakestraw Books 10 closed early on March 29 and was up and Nightbird's new address is 205 West Dickson Street, Fayetteville, running the next day after moving around the corner. The new Arkansas 72701. The store's phone numbers remain the same . location, a 3,000-square-foot space, in a historic building on Hartz --Karen Schechner 12 Avenue (the town's Main Street) is in downtown Danville. The store has nearly 70 feet of west-facing picture windows, brightly Maryland Booksellers Call on painted walls, Persian rugs, lamps, antiques, and paintings, and is about one third bigger than the former location. Colleagues to Mobilize for E-Fairness 13 The move "was definitely a community event," said owner Michael April 09, 2009 -- This week, four booksellers in Maryland Barnard. "More than 50 people showed up to help us pack with the strongly encouraged other ABA members in their state to join the result that we were starting to move bookcases and books by about fight for e-fairness. Last week, Maryland State Sen. Richard 11:00 a.m. By day's end we were nearly 100 percent in the new Madaleno (D-District 18) introduced S.B. 1071, legislation place. It was a terrific outpouring of support. Another 40 to 50 modeled after New York State's Internet Sales Tax provision, showed up Monday and Tuesday morning both.... People have been which would require out-of-state companies that have affiliates in surprised by how quickly it all happened, but when you have many Maryland to collect and remit sales tax on sales over the Internet to hands helping, it happens fast." in-state customers. The Maryland State Senate held a hearing on the legislation last Thursday; however, the legislative session ends The bookstore, which was founded in 1973 by Mary and Brian on Monday, April 13. Harvey, was bought by Barnard in 1995. "For almost 40 years, we 14 have served the readers of Danville and the San Ramon Valley with Steven S. Baum of Greetings & Readings in Hunt Valley; Patrick 15 book recommendations, author appearances, charitable activities, Darby of Novel Places in Rockville; Robin Dunn of St. John's 16 and community service," he said. College Bookstore in Annapolis; and Susan Weis of breathe books 17 in Baltimore, e-mailed fellow ABA members and urged Rakestraw held an initial reopening event on April 6 -- its third them to contact their legislators to ask them to support S.B. 1071. annual collaboration with the California Shakespeare Theater. The evening included a scene enacted from a Shakespeare play and an In the e-mail, the booksellers wrote: "We need to do this now. If author event, and it began with a pinot noir tasting and hors this legislation were signed into law, out-of-state online retailers d'oeuvres. The cost was $20 per person, and proceeds benefited the with affiliates in Maryland will no longer be able to shirk their theater company's education programs. obligation to collect sales tax. A simple letter to your legislators can make all the difference. Booksellers in New York State were Rakestraw Books will hold a formal grand reopening party on faced with a similar opportunity last year. New York State Saturday, May 9. independent booksellers aggressively lobbied their legislators in The store's new address is 522 Hartz Avenue, Danville, California early 2008 and their efforts paid off. In April 2008, the state passed 94526-3821. Its telephone numbers remain the same. the Internet Sales Tax provision, and, though Amazon.com challenged the provision in New York State Supreme Court, the Nightbird Books case was thrown out." 11 Nightbird Books moved about one mile to a busier area of "As we expected, the debate over Maryland's Internet sales tax Fayetteville. The store closed on March 29 and reopened on April provision has intensified," said ABA COO Oren Teicher. "Just as 1. "Our foot traffic has already increased significantly in the few happened in New York, out-of-state online retailing giants that days we have been open," said owner Lisa Sharp. "My selling continue to flout the state's existing sales tax law to a decided

© 2009 American Booksellers Association. http://news.bookweb.org/ 2 BOOKSELLING THIS WEEK April 09, 2009 competitive advantage over in-state retailers are lobbying against right book in the hands of the right child," she said. "There's Sen. Madaleno's bill. It's crucial that Maryland booksellers nothing more satisfying than that. As affected as we all are when immediately contact their legislators and urge them to support S.B. we read, children are even more affected." 1071. Last year, after New York legislators were met with an influx Although Bank Street's purpose hasn't changed, the store has been of communiques from independent booksellers and other indie modifying its operations strategy to adjust to the times. "Like all retailers in the state, it resulted in a resounding victory for local booksellers, we're looking to fine-tune the business," Puffer said. businesses. Now it's time for Maryland booksellers to be heard." "We're rethinking the product mix, how we do things, and how While Maryland's legislative session ends in four days, a we're spending our time. And IndieBound is certainly a part of that. spokesperson for Sen. Madaleno's office said it's expected that S.B. We're talking even more about the importance of buying locally 1071 would be reintroduced in January, if not voted on by the end and buying from independent businesses." Bank Street has also of the current assembly. been increasing its involvement with theaters, schools, and Maryland joins California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Minnesota, and community groups through book fairs and other outside sales. Tennessee in considering Internet sales tax legislation. ABA is An ABA Board member since 2006, Puffer has served on the urging booksellers in the other states that collect sales tax to call on association's Booksellers Advisory Council and as chair of the their lawmakers to introduce legislation in support of e-fairness. Nominating Committee. She has also served on the boards of the Booksellers can find a template letter to adapt and send to their New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association and New York lawmakers on ABA's Sales Tax Initiative page 18 . Booksellers are Is Book Country and was treasurer of the Association of also asked to notify both their regional association and ABA's Booksellers for Children. David Grogan when they have sent letters. This will help both the "When I started in this business, the biggest challenge was keeping regional associations and ABA compile information to support track of your inventory in those pre-computer days," Puffer said. their lobbying efforts. --David Grogan 19 "Today booksellers face so many more challenges." Among those she'd like to continue addressing if elected to a second term on the Spotlight on ABA Board Candidate Beth ABA Board "is the need to educate our customers about the importance of shopping local and independent, the ability to stay Puffer relevant in today's rapidly changing world of content delivery, and April 09, 2009 -- Director candidates on the ballot for this year's nurturing the next generation of readers and book lovers." ABA Board elections are Betsy Burton of The King's English Of her past experience, Puffer said, "Being on the ABA Board has 20 Bookshop in Salt Lake City, Utah; Becky Anderson of Anderson's been a delightful and educational experience. There is no doubt that 21 Bookshop in Naperville, Illinois; and Beth Puffer of Bank Street working with my fellow board members, and the ABA staff has 22 Bookstore in New York City. The ballot also includes the names made me a better bookseller." -- Karen Schechner 23 of Michael Tucker of Books Inc. in San Francisco for president and Becky Anderson for vice-president/secretary. E-mailed ABA Board ballots must be submitted by April 30; printed This week, BTW profiles Beth Puffer, a current member of the ballots must be postmarked by April 30 and received by ABA's Board, up for election to a second three-year term. auditors, Marks Paneth & Schron, by May 7. Read last week's BTW profile of Betsy Burton. Beth Puffer hadn't planned on a bookselling career, particularly as a children's bookseller. Puffer was a teacher in 1973, when she went to work at a New York City bookstore over a holiday break. "I Congress Urged to Exempt Bookstore decided to take a seasonal job at the now-defunct Brentano's ... and Records From Patriot Act stayed. That was 36 years ago," she explained. "I had a couple of April 09, 2009 -- On April 7, the American Booksellers great managers who took me under their wing. I really loved it, and Association, American Library Association, Association of I decided it was my place." American Publishers, and PEN American Center sent a memo Puffer later moved to the Boston area and became manager of the urging Congress to exempt bookstores and library records from now-closed Eeyore's, a children's bookstore. "I'd been working in a Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act. The appeal is the latest phase general bookstore for many years and thought it would be a little in the Campaign for Reader Privacy 24 (CRP), the groups' five-year difficult selling only children's books," she said. "But I've been effort to restore reader privacy safeguards stripped away by the selling children's books since 1981, and I love it." When Puffer Patriot Act. Although the Patriot Act is set to expire at the end of came back to New York, her hometown, she began working for the year, legislation is under consideration that would extend the Bank Street Bookstore, which specializes in children's and law. education books. She's been there for 23 years and is the store's Said ABA COO Oren Teicher, "We believe the time has come to manager, buyer, and, she said jokingly, "chief cook and bottle reassure Americans that the government is not reading over their washer." shoulder." Bank Street, which celebrated its 38th anniversary last fall, is In its memo to Congress, CRP said that it supports legislation owned by the Bank Street College. The store, which serves both the introduced by Senators Russ Feingold (D-WI) and Jerry Nadler college and the neighboring community, stocks children's and adult (D-NY) in the previous session of Congress that would restrict the titles, teacher supplies and curriculum guides, games and plush use of Section 215 orders and National Security Letters (NSLs) to gifts, but no textbooks. "We offer a wide range of multicultural searches targeting suspected terrorists or people who are known to products," said Puffer. "We provide a place for people to find what them. Nadler reintroduced the National Security Letters Reform they might not find elsewhere both in terms of service and Act (H.R. 1800) on March 30, and Feingold is expected to selection." The mission of Bank Street has "always been getting the introduce a bill at a later date.

In a press release, CRP explained that, since 2003, the Department Penguin Young Readers Group is covering the cost of the card (22 of Justice has used its expanded power under the Patriot Act to cents), the transaction fee (50 cents per card), and the holder (12 issue more than 200 secret search orders under Section 215 and cents). Quantities are limited per ABA member to 100 generic more than 190,000 NSLs. At present, the FBI can still search any cards and matching holders or 250 imprinted cards and holders. records it believes are "relevant" to a terrorism investigation, The usual fee for imprinting will be charged as will all other ABA including the records of people who are not suspected of criminal Gift Card Program costs and fees, including increments and conduct, the groups stressed. shipping and handling fees. Orders will be filled on a first-come, Patriot Act orders bar recipients from revealing the existence of first-served basis. NSLs, therefore it is impossible to know how many have been Stores that place orders on April 22 will receive generic cards served on bookstores and libraries. However, in its memo, CRP within two days and imprinted cards within three to five working reported that there have been at least three significant and days. disturbing attempts to obtain records from libraries since 2003. In Questions about the "You're so special to me" gift card should be 2004, the FBI issued a subpoena to a library in rural Washington addressed to [email protected] 27 . Booksellers must be current ABA State demanding a list of patrons who had checked out a biography members and have a signed ABA Gift Card Program Letter of of Osama bin Laden. In 2005, an NSL was sent to a Connecticut Agreement 28 on file to be eligible for this offer. library consortium in an effort to obtain the Internet records of one of its patrons, and in November 2007, the FBI issued an NSL to Internet Archive, a digital library, seeking the name and address of Changing Hands Celebrates 35 Years one of its users as well as all transactional records pertaining to the April 08, 2009 -- Tempe Arizona's Changing Hands Bookstore 29 user. All three of the orders were withdrawn after they were invited customers to an all-day party on Saturday, April 4, to mark challenged by librarians. its 35th anniversary. The celebration featured face- and The broad authority granted to the FBI by the Patriot Act, the henna-painting, party hat making, tarot readings, and a visit from groups state, represents a serious threat to intellectual freedom. An Newbery Award-winner Susan Patron ( Lucky Breaks , Ginee Seo). essential part of the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of "We had a lovely 35th birthday celebration," said Changing Hands speech is the freedom to explore ideas and seek information co-owner and ABA president Gayle Shanks. "The store was filled without fear of government scrutiny. The Patriot Act weakened the with customers who all claimed to have been shopping at our store confidentiality protections for these records and raised fears that since day one, some of whom I recognized, and some for whom I the FBI could circumvent constitutional checks on searches. think it was a figment of their imagination. But it was fun to have This danger has been confirmed by the Inspector General of the so many claim to have been shopping here since 1974." Justice Department. In a 2008 report to Congress, the Inspector The best part of the day, Shanks said, was seeing people who'd General said that in one case the FBI had done an end-run around come to Changing Hands when they were kids now bring their own the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) Court after the court children. "That really touched my heart," she explained. "I saw a had denied approval for a search that threatened the First woman with her two young children, and I remembered when she Amendment rights of the target. Twice refused a Section 215 order was their age. Her kids were dancing with Peter Rabbit. I got so by the court, the FBI used its authority to issue an NSL without emotional. The tears were pouring.... It was really wonderful. It court approval for the same information, an action that was was quite a magical day." criticized by the Inspector General. Changing Hands also hosted a bowling party with pizza and beer Section 215, which has already been extended once, is scheduled to for store employees. "I just feel fortunate that we are blessed with expire at the end of the year. However, Republicans in the House of brilliant, intelligent, creative booksellers who have latched onto Representative have introduced legislation extending it and two what Changing Hands is all about, and who want to make it better other Patriot Act provisions for another 10 years. Moreover, FBI all the time. People love interacting with them, and come back Director Robert Mueller recently called on Congress to extend the because of them." three expiring provisions. The bookstore, which turned 35 on April 1, was founded by The Campaign's Congressional memo, "Restoring the Safeguards 25 Shanks; her husband, Bob Sommer; and a friend, Tom Brodersen, for Reader Privacy," is available at readerprivacy.org. who eventually left the business. In 2008, Changing Hands general manager Cindy Dach became a co-owner of the store. "It was a New Free, Limited Edition Gift Card momentous change for Changing Hands and a wonderful one," said Available April 22 Shanks. "Working with Cindy has been pure pleasure." April 09, 2009 -- Penguin Young Readers Group aims to help us Once just 500 square feet and designed to be "a little, socially celebrate all of our special relationships -- with a free, limited responsible bookstore and community gathering place," Changing edition ABA Gift Card and matching holder. Anna Dewdney's Hands is now a 13,000-square-foot, nationally recognized industry Llama Llama and Mama Llama ( Llama Llama Misses Mama ) icon. With its core mission of community service always at the grace the front of the new card, which proclaims "You're so special forefront, Changing Hands has been recognized with Publishers to me." Customers of all ages who are looking for a unique way to Weekly 's 2007 Bookseller of the Year Award, the Charles S. say thank you or to acknowledge that special someone won't be Haslam Award for Excellence in Bookselling, and many other able to resist this adorable gift card. honors. Booksellers can begin ordering the new card and holder sets at While its values have remained a constant, the reason Changing noon EDT on Wednesday, April 22, via the ABA gift card order Hands has enjoyed three-and-a-half decades, and is weathering the site 26 . current financial mayhem, boils down to business sense. "Sure its about the books, you have to have good books, and people who are

© 2009 American Booksellers Association. http://news.bookweb.org/ 4 BOOKSELLING THIS WEEK April 09, 2009 excited about them, and people who read them," said Shanks. "But name of The Next Page Bookstore and the store's current location you have to be doing the rest of the dance -- figuring out ways to on Main Street in Frisco. "In coming together, our goal is to bring people into the store." continue to thrive in this community by providing customers with One way of doing that, of course, is through events, and Shanks the exceptional quality, service, and expertise they've come to rely credits her staff with continually developing inventive, often on from both stores," said Karen Berg, owner of The Next Page authorless events. "The marketing department is doing a superb Bookstore, in a statement. job," she said. "They've invented bug and butterfly day, superhero Added Amy Yundt, founder of The Open Book, "Both Karen and I day, princess day.... On Saturdays, in this down-turned economy, love books, love the business of books and are 100 percent we're still able to bring in 100 kids and their parents. The Saturdays committed to this community. By joining together we will be in a ultimately help us make the numbers that we need for the week. much stronger business position to deliver the best indie bookstore Hopefully, the kids will go home with a bug catcher or a butterfly experience to Summit County, and will be able to provide an even net or a book on identifying bugs in Arizona." And, Shanks added, higher level of service in the form of merchandise, events, and staff is no longer shy about explaining to customers that buying expertise to our customers." books at Changing Hands is what's necessary to keep it in business Plans for the new Next Page call for frequent author events, and able to serve the community. expanded book club services and, "along with cards, stationary, Like every other business in these tough economic times, Changing totes, and the Sock Lady socks, an assortment of items by local Hands is looking to trim fat. "One of the changes we've made this Colorado artisans." year is reducing the amount of inventory that we're carrying," Shanks explained. "We've removed bookshelves, and we've added Pleasantville Bookstore Owners Named Business Persons of the tables and chairs. The customers haven't noticed. I think they're Year happy to have extra places to sit. We'll probably keep as lean as we can into the foreseeable future until something turns around." Roy Solomon and Yvonne Van Cort, the husband-and wife owners of The Village Bookstore 35 have been named Business Persons of Over the years, Changing Hands has received many expressions of the Year by the Pleasantville (New York) Chamber of Commerce. appreciation from friends and neighbors, including some unusual The couple was honored for their contributions to the community at forms of gratitude. "In one customer's obituary it said that in lieu of reception at the Pleasantville Country Club on April 2. flowers, people should make donations to Changing Hands," said Shanks. With the $500 it received in donations, the bookstore set The March-April edition of the Pleasantville Chamber newsletter up a scholarship fund for employees to attend ABA's Winter said, "Yvonne and Roy not only run an excellent bookstore, Institute and BookExpo America. The well-intentioned customer providing exceptional customer service, they also exemplify "just loved the store, and we had a great relationship. But this was a community spirit, supporting numerous organizations, such as the brand new one for us!" said Shanks. "He wanted to make sure that Pleasantville Fund for Learning, the Community Scholarship Fund, the store would be there for other people in the community." -- the Pleasantville International Association, the Special Education Karen Schechner 30 PTA, the Pleasantville Music Festival, the Pleasantville Master Plan Update Committee, and the Pleasantville Chamber of Lunch With Indie Faves at BEA Commerce." April 08, 2009 -- Booksellers at all ABA member stores are invited Powell's Partners With Portland Farmers Market to reserve a spot at this year's Celebration of Bookselling Luncheon at BookExpo America. The free event -- open exclusively to the 36 From April 25 through October 24, Powell's Books 37 will be owners and staff of ABA member stores -- will be held in the selling new and used books at the Portland Farmers Market's Special Events Hall at New York's Javits Convention Center on Portland State University location 38 on the last Saturday of each Friday, May 29. month. In a 10-foot by 20-foot booth, Powell's will offer a curated selection of books focusing on topics relevant to the market season. Formerly known as the Book Sense Author Luncheon, the event will bring together booksellers and dozens of their favorite authors "The Portland Farmers Market and Powell's Books are a perfect whose books have been past Book Sense Picks or, more recently, match, bringing together two of Portland's greatest loves: food and Indie Next List Great Reads or Notables. The luncheon will also books," said Michael Lamb, customer services manager of Powell's include the presentation of the 2009 Indies Choice Book Awards. Books, in a statement. "Our participation in the farmers market is a natural extension of our sustainability efforts and that is part of the Booksellers who would like to attend should register individually reason why we'll offer used books at the market." as soon as possible via an electronic form on Bookweb.org 31 . Questions regarding the luncheon may be addressed to ABA Senior Weekly topics at the 2009 Powell's Books at the Market series Director of Publisher Initiatives Mark Nichols at include seed gardening, preparing local food and eating locally, [email protected] 32 . barbequing, preserving, and more. Local authors will also be stopping by the booth to sign and talk about their books. Around Indies Powell's is donating 10 percent of the gross sales to Portland Farmers Market, a 501(c)6 nonprofit, to help the organization April 08, 2009 -- fulfill its mission to operate vibrant farmers markets that contribute to the success of local food growers and producers, strengthen the The Next Page and The Open Book to Merge food economy, and serve as community gathering places. On Wednesday, April 8, The Next Page Bookstore 33 and The Open Powells.com is also hosting an aisle of books featured at the market Book 34 in Frisco, Colorado, announced plans to join forces as a and is including the Portland Farmers Market in its Portlander's single business entity as of May 1. The new business will retain the page 39 .

Doylestown Bookshop to Host the Philly Liars Club its staff on May 18 as senior vice president, sales and digital On Saturday, May 2, the Philly Liars Club is kicking off a initiatives. Mendelson is currently director of trade sales at celebration of independents with "The Liars Club Tells the Truth Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, where he has worked for more than a About the Doylestown Bookshop 40 ," in Doylestown, decade in a variety of sales positions including director of national Pennsylvania. accounts, director of field sales, national account manager, and New England sales representative. 41 The event, which is free and open to the public, will feature games, giveaways, as well as the club's many authors and other Staff reporting to Mendelson include Jeanne Emanuel, vice creative folk "who basically lie for a living," said the Philly Liars president of sales for U.S. and Canada; Susan Batcheller, newly Club in a statement. The group, which wants to draw press promoted to vice president of marketing services and sales attention to what makes Doylestown Bookshop special, is hoping to operations; and Brooke Husbands, bookclub and subsidiary rights bring the tour to independents stretching from D.C. to New York. sales manager. "Independent bookstores have done so much to promote authors Sharon Hancock was promoted to executive director, school and and great books. We thought it was time for us to promote them," library marketing. says Marie Lamba, author and Liars Club member. The Philly Liars Club includes L.A. Banks ( The Griffin Poetry Prize Announces 2009 Shortlist Thirteenth-Vampire Huntress Legend , St. Martin's Griffin); On April 7, Scott Griffin, founder of The Griffin Trust for Gregory Frost ( Shadowbridge and Lord Tophet , Del Rey/Random Excellence in Poetry 48 and David Young, trustee, announced the House); Merry Jones ( The Borrowed and Blue Murders , St. Canadian and International shortlist for this year's prize. The prize Martin's Minotaur); Don Lafferty (a social networking/promotion is awarded annually for the two best books of poetry, including guru), Marie Lamba ( What I Meant... , Random House); William translations, published in English in the previous year. Lashner ( Blood and Bone , William Morrow); Jonathan Maberry ( The seven finalists -- three Canadian and four International -- will Patient Zero , St. Martin's Press); Jon McGoran, aka D.H. Dublin ( be invited to read in Toronto at the MacMillan Theatre on Tuesday, Freezer Burn , Berkley); Ed Pettit (Poe scholar); Laura Schrock June 2. The winners, who each receive C$50,000, will be (Emmy Award-winning writer/producer, currently producing the announced on Wednesday, June 3, 2009, at the ninth annual Griffin canine comedy web series It's Todd's Show ); Kelly Simmons ( Poetry Prize Awards Evening. Standing Still , Washington Square Press); Keith Strunk ( Prallsville Mills and Stockton , Arcadia Publishing); and Dennis The three books on the Canadian shortlist are: Revolver by Kevin Tafoya ( Dope Thief , St. Martin's Minotaur). Connolly (House of Anansi Press); Crabwise to the Hounds by Jeramy Dodds (Coach House Books); and The Sentinel by A.F. The group invites other indies that would like to host an event to Moritz (House of Anansi Press). contact them at [email protected] 42 . The four books on the International Shortlist are: The Lost Leader BTW News Briefs by Mick Imlah (Faber and Faber); Life on Earth by Derek Mahon (The Gallery Press); Rising, Falling, Hovering by C.D. Wright April 08, 2009 -- Three NAIBAhood Gatherings Upcoming (Copper Canyon Press); and Primitive Mentor by Dean Young The New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association is inviting (University of Pittsburgh Press). members to three NAIBAhood Gatherings: For more information go to www.griffinpoetryprize.com 49 . •Tuesday, April 14, at Creekside Books & Cafe 43 in Skaneateles, New York. Erika Davis of Creekside will host the central and The Indie Finance & Personal Investing upstate New York NAIBAhood Gathering. The gathering will take place from 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Lunch will be at Creekside's Bestseller List Cafe. April 08, 2009 -- For the eight-week period ending April 7, 2009, •Sunday, April 26, at breathe books 44 in Baltimore, Maryland. and based on sales at independent bookstores throughout the There are two hosts for this meeting: Susan Weis of breathe books U.S. and Mark LaFramboise of Politics & Prose. The gathering will take place from 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. After a tour and discussion at 1. Suze Orman's 2009 Action Plan breathe books, dinner will be at The Golden West Cafe, which Suze Orman, Spiegel & Grau, $9.99, 9780385530934 serves New Mexican cuisine. 2. The Great Depression Ahead: How to Prosper in the Crash Following •Wednesday, May 6, at Penguin Bookshop 45 in Sewickley, the Greatest Boom in History Pennsylvania. The staff of Penguin Bookshop will host. The Harry S. Dent, Free Press, $27, 9781416588986 gathering will take place from 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Dinner will be 3. J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2009 at the Sewickley Cafe after a store tour and discussion. J.K. Lasser Institute, Wiley, $18.95, 9780470280027

Details are available on the NAIBA website 46 . For more 4. Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth information or to RSVP, call (516) 333-0681 or e-mail [email protected] 47 . David C. Korten, Berrett-Koehler, $14.95, 9781605092898 5. Rich Dad, Poor Dad Candlewick Names Senior Vice President of Sales & Digital Robert Kiyosaki, Warner, $16.95, 9780446677455 Initiatives 6. The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness Candlewick Press announced that John Mendelson will be joining Dave Ramsey, Nelson, $24.99, 9780785289081

7. The Wall Street Journal Guide to the End of Wall Street as We Know support for local independent booksellers in a big way. It: What You Need to Know about the Greatest Financial Crisis of Our Time -- And How to Survive It This week, the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Dave Kansas, HarperBusiness, $15.99, 9780061788406 50 (NAIBA) announced that Scottoline, who lives in Pennsylvania and whose books are set in the area, is offering a special promotion 51 8. Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship for her new book, Look Again (St. Martin's), to help boost sales at With Money and Achieving Financial Independence (Revised Ed.) independent bookstores throughout the NAIBA region. In a Joe Dominguez, et al., Penguin, $16, 9780143115762 personal note to booksellers, Scottoline explained, "I'm a true believer of supporting local independents, and in light of the tough 9. Jim Cramer's Real Money: Sane Investing in an Insane World times we are facing, I've come up with a promotion that I thought James J. Cramer, S&S, $16, 9780743224901 might help give a boost to all the great bookstores who are NAIBA 10. The Intelligent Investor (Revised Ed.) members." Benjamin Graham, HarperBusiness, $21.99, 9780060555665 Scottoline, who has participated in past NAIBA conferences, is a member favorite, said the regional's executive director, Eileen 11. Debt Cures "They" Don't Want You to Know About Dengler. And the promotion grew from "Lisa's desire to support Kevin Trudeau, Equity Press, $25.95, 9780979825811 independent bookstores." 12. The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous & Broke 52 Joe Drabyak of Chester County Book & Music Company 53 , Suze Orman, Riverhead, $16, 9781594482243 Scottoline's local independent bookseller, said the promotion is "absolutely wonderful. Before she became a New York Times 13. Women & Money Suze Orman, Spiegel & Grau, $24.95, 9780385519311 bestselling author, Lisa reached out to independent booksellers." Now, she wants to help increase sales of her newest book at indie 14. Game Over: How You Can Prosper in a Shattered Economy bookstores. "It's a win-win for everybody," Drabyak added. Stephen Leeb, Business Plus, $25.99, 9780446544801 "Especially since the promotion is geared toward each individual store." 15. You're Broke Because You Want to Be: How to Stop Getting By and Start Getting Ahead For the promotion, which runs from April 14 to May 12, consumers Larry Winget, Gotham, $14, 9781592404292 who buy Look Again at a participating NAIBA member will be entered into a store contest for a $50 gift certificate (or store gift 16. Fight for Your Money: How to Stop Getting Ripped Off and Save a certificate). NAIBA explained that bookstores "can do this with a Fortune gift receipt or a card that the customer completes, or through [the David Bach, Broadway, $26, 9780767929844 store's] POS system if it has the capability." Since the promotion is being run individually by each store, a customer's chance of 17. The Difference: How Anyone Can Prosper in Even the Toughest Times winning is based solely on sales at that store. (A minimum sale of Jean Chatzky, Crown Business, $24.95, 9780307407139 five copies of Look Again per participating store is a term of the promotion.) 18. The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom: Practical and Spiritual Steps So You NAIBA also noted that, with each bookstore randomly pulling a Can Stop Worrying winning receipt and notifying the customer, each will also have a Suze Orman, Three Rivers, $14.95, 9780307345844 great PR opportunity. 19. The Soul of Money: Reclaiming the Wealth of Our Inner Resources In an author Q&A and video available on the NAIBA website 54 , Lynne Twist, Norton, $18.95, 9780393329506 Scottoline proposes the creation of a Slow Book movement, similar to the Slow Food movement, with the goal of "savoring the 20. I Will Teach You to Be Rich Ramit Sethi, Workman, $13.95, 9780761147480 experience of reading and of buying books, sold locally." To show her love, Scottoline is personally reimbursing the $50 to 21. Rich Like Them: My Door-to-Door Search for the Secrets of Wealth in bookstores participating in the promotion. America's Richest Neighborhoods Ryan D'Agostino, Little Brown, $25.99, 9780316021463 Complete contest information, as well as jacket art, photos, and more, are available on the NAIBA website. 55 --Rosemary Hawkins 22. Crash Proof: How to Profit From the Coming Economic Collapse 56 Peter D. Schiff, Wiley, $27.95, 9780470043608

23. Taxes 2009 for Dummies Hotel ABA: Sleep. Read. Network. Eric Tyson, et al., For Dummies, $17.99, 9780470249512 April 08, 2009 -- 57 This year's Hotel ABA -- the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge in Brooklyn -- will once again be 24. The Total Money Makeover Workbook Dave Ramsey, Nelson, $17.99, 9780785263272 the center of the universe for ABA member booksellers during BookExpo America 2009 58 .The hotel will offer parties, food, great 25. Investing for Dummies atmosphere, contests, free stuff, and, of course, lots of opportunities Eric Tyson, Wiley, $21.99, 9780470289655 to network with other indie booksellers. New benefits exclusively for Hotel ABA guests, announced just Lisa Scottoline Loves Her Local Indie last week, include: • An extra free badge to BEA Bookstores • In-hotel badge pick-up April 08, 2009 -- Bestselling author Lisa Scottoline is showing her • An author-guided walking tour of the Brooklyn Bridge • Brooklyn indie bookstore events

• Limited complimentary theater seating at BEA Book & Author store's customer list. Breakfasts and Lunch • And the chance to win a full scholarship (airfare and hotel) to BTW: How do you identify opportunities to claim co-op for next February's Fifth Annual Winter Institute, in San Jose, website and newsletter promotions? And how do you inform California ABA E-commerce Solution stores about these opportunities? Previously announced benefits include a special room rate of $183 MK: Here's a brief description of the process: per night for Wednesday, May 27, through Sunday, May 31; a Around mid-month, after scouring publisher catalogs, websites, and series of evening social events sponsored by ABA, BEA, and special offers, we distribute a list of all recently published titles that participating publishers; free morning coffee; and a free four-trip are eligible for newsletter co-op through a website promotion. NYC MetroCard. Stores let me know which titles they intend to feature, and must Hotel ABA's special rate of $183 per night is available until have ordered sufficient quantities for an in-store display and also Monday, May 4, or until the group block is sold out, whichever uploaded those titles to their websites. comes first. Booksellers must make their reservations via the Marriott's dedicated reservation webpage for ABA members 59 . I prepare a Claim Request Form and attach a screen shot of the web Rooms are reserved for ABA members only, and ABA has the right page, and submit the claim to the respective publishers to cancel reservations made by non-members. Reserve your hotel electronically, with a copy to the store. Some publishers are now room now 60 . asking for a photo of the store display as additional proof of promotion. Booksellers who are not currently ABA bookstore or provisional members can join the association 61 to take advantage of this special We track the availability of newsletter co-op funds to apply to these Hotel ABA package, as well as many other benefits 62 . promotions, and charge the store quarterly for 15 percent of the amount of co-op claimed within that time period. This year, every regular ABA store and provisional member is eligible for at least one free admission to BEA, with additional badges available to stores in an ABA dues category of two or BTW: How do you help bookstores comply with publisher higher 63 . One additional free BEA badge is also available to each terms and conditions? member bookstore that was represented at the Winter Institute. MK: The "Claim Request for Co-op Credit" forms that we In order to receive their free badges, stores must authorize ABA to developed serve as a contract between the publisher and the share relevant information with BEA officials by completing a bookstore. By signing the form that authorizes us to file claims on a simple form 64 on BookWeb.org. All specific sales data provided to store's behalf, the bookseller acknowledges that they understand ABA for dues calculation purposes will be kept strictly and have complied with any relevant publisher terms such as confidential. All ABA members must also register for the trade minimum orders and front-of-store display; all of that information show via the BEA website 65 . is captured and presented on the Claim Request Form.

Paz & Associates Works With BTW: What other services are offered by Paz & Associates E-Commerce Stores to Claim Co-op when it comes to utilizing co-op? April 08, 2009 -- On April 1, the American Booksellers Association MK: Our core philosophy is that booksellers and publishers must transferred co-op management for booksellers participating in the be "partners in promotion," since both will gain only when a book ABA E-Commerce Solution to Paz & Associates 66 . Mark is sold to a customer. That being said, we have developed several Kaufman, who currently serves as co-op administrator for 30 alternatives to help stores with their marketing efforts, all of which independent booksellers using Paz's newsletter marketing services, include co-op administration. We offer both a four-page and a is now working with E-commerce stores to claim publishers' co-op 12-page print newsletter personalized for each store, an monies to help offset the cost of maintaining their websites. BTW e-newsletter designed with Constant Contact, or solely the co-op recently spoke with Kaufman, via e-mail, about some of the ways management function for ABA E-Commerce users. All inquiries in which Paz & Associates works on behalf of its bookseller are welcome ... we're happy to discuss a bookstore's current co-op clients. utilization and the potential to have even more of the store's marketing efforts supported by publisher co-op. -- Interviewed by Rosemary Hawkins 67 BTW : How broad a range of publishers does Paz & Associates currently work with? Details about co-op administration are available from Paz & Mark Kaufman: There had been 15 publishers that we have Associates at (800) 260-8605 or [email protected] 68 . worked with on a regular basis who offer newsletter co-op above Information about ABA's E-Commerce Solution is available on and beyond what a store might have earned in their pool account. BookWeb.org or by contacting ABA's Scott Nafz at (800) 637-0037, But Hachette announced just last month that it would no longer ext. 6654 or [email protected] 69 . offer any newsletter co-op. There is about $7,500 available if you were to total the amount of newsletter co-op available from this group of publishers. However, only four publishers are willing to Booksellers School @ BEA to Provide apply newsletter co-op funds to a website-only and store display Foundations for Success promotion; the others see a website promotion as too passive April 08, 2009 -- Paz & Associates 70 will be conducting a two-day (meaning that customers have to find their way to the site), and will workshop for prospective booksellers, "Retail Bookselling: only offer newsletter co-op for a more "active" promotion, such as Creating Foundations for Success," in conjunction with BookExpo a print newsletter or an e-newsletter that is regularly e-mailed to a

America. The program is designed for those who are considering for swipe transactions and 1.65 percent for check cards -- should becoming bookstore owners, either through the purchase of an contact Paula Kelly, vice president, BA Merchant Services, at existing store or with the establishment of a new business. [email protected] 79 or (860) 466-4474. "So many people interested in opening a bookstore tell us that the Kelly will also be available to sign up booksellers and to answer most common response they get from others is: 'Are you crazy?!'" questions in the ABA Booksellers Lounge (1E07-08) at the Javits said Donna Paz Kaufman. "While we agree that it's important to Convention Center from Thursday through midday Sunday, May understand your tolerance for risk and to thoroughly assess your 28 - 31, during BookExpo America. community's ability to support a retail bookstore, times of change are also times of opportunity. Right now, landlords are more ABA Board Elections: Still Time to Cast willing to negotiate terms, and property values are more affordable than we've seen in a very long time. In some communities, small Your Vote chain bookstores in mall locations are being closed, and some April 07, 2009 -- Electronic and print ballots for the 2009 ABA leases for large chain bookstores are not being renewed. All this Board of Directors elections must be winging their way to the opens the doors of possibility." association's auditors, Marks Paneth & Shron, by Thursday, April Because "retail bookselling differs from other forms of retail and 30. making a profit is a real challenge," she added, "we encourage Ballots were sent to all ABA regular bookstore members -- either people (even those who have worked in, but not owned a via e-mail or U.S. Postal Service -- on Friday, March 27. The bookstore) to learn the fundamentals first. An informed and sender of the e-mail ballot was [email protected], and purposeful approach will lead to greater prospects for success." the subject line was "Time to Vote for ABA's Board of Directors & Booksellers School registration includes two days of classes (on Officers." All electronic ballots must be submitted by Thursday, Tuesday and Wednesday, May 26 - 27 at Hotel ABA, the New April 30. York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge); participation in ABA's Day 71 Bookstore members that did not opt in for the electronic ballot of Education , alongside experienced booksellers (on Thursday, were sent a traditional paper mailing. Print ballots must be returned May 28, at the Javits Convention Center); and admission to the in the special postage-paid envelope addressed to ABA's auditors BEA trade show floor (from Friday, May 29, through Sunday, May Marks Paneth & Shron with a postmark no later than Thursday, 31), where students will be able to meet authors, get a sneak April 30, and must be received by Thursday, May 7. preview of fall titles, and see the entire book industry in action. The school curriculum, led by Paz Kaufman and Mark Kaufman, with help from special guests, will focus on: • How to assess whether a community will support an independent bookstore • Strategies for choosing a store location • How much it will cost to start a business and what to expect as a return on investment Classifieds • How long it will take to open • Bookstore financial dynamics, including why some bookstores POSITIONS AVAILABLE are profitable and others aren't BOOKHAMPTON Seeks Great BookSeller • Ways that successful booksellers compete in today's market We're an outstanding Bookstore • How the dream compares with the realities of operating a retail You are very well-read bookstore We're committed to personal service You are very outgoing Booksellers School tuition is $450 for ABA members and $650 for We need 5 days must include Saturdays non-members. (Non-ABA members can join the association 72 to Year Round take advantage of the member rate, as well as other ABA 73 You have a lot of Stamina benefits.) For more information about Booksellers School, and to We know books - You do, too. register, visit www.pazbookbiz.com 74 . BookHampton, East Hampton NY Booksellers School students can reserve a room at the Brooklyn Should we "talk?" Marriott at the ABA member rate of $183 per night via the [email protected] 83 Marriott's dedicated ABA member web page 75 until May 4 or the BOOKSTORE MANAGER WITH PASSION block of rooms sells out, whichever comes first. --Rosemary Books Inc is seeking a strong manager for placement in the San Hawkins 76 Francisco area. You should demonstrate the ability to lead, be intensely aware of customer needs, and exhibit exemplary Special Promo Available on Credit Card geniality. The abilities to motivate and communicate are essential. Processing Initiative and extraordinary merchandising skills are imperative in this high-profile Bookstore. Last, but in no way least, skill at 77 April 07, 2009 -- ABA affinity partner Bank of America staging special events and establishing community presence is very 78 Merchant Services will waive the $75 application fee for important. booksellers who sign up for its credit card processing program from April 10 through August 31, 2009. Primary areas of responsibility: ABA members who would like to learn more about Bank of • Generating sales by modeling, teaching, and maintaining a high America's competitive rates -- which can be as low as 1.85 percent service standard

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