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April 22, 2010 interest to all convention goers. The plenary will feature seven of TABLE OF CONTENTS: the book industry's leading executives in a timely discussion about • CEO Panel Plenary to Kick Off Programming the "value of a book," an issue of concern to the entire industry. at BEA ...... 1 The Opening Plenary, which will be held from 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 • Supreme Court Upholds Free Speech Rights a.m. on Tuesday, May 25, in the Javits Center's Special Events Hall, will help set the tone for the BEA conference tracks and ...... 1 ABA's Day of Education, which will follow. • Baker & Taylor to Sponsor Celebration of The subject of discussion, the "value of a book," stems, in part, Bookselling Luncheon ...... 2 from a New York Times Op-Ed piece titled "There's More to • Winners to Attend Celebration of Bookselling Publishing Than Meets the Screen 1 " (January 2, 2010) by Jonathan ...... 2 Galassi, president of Farrar, Straus & Giroux. • Amazon.com Challenges North Carolina Over Galassi will moderate the panel featuring: Sales and Use Tax Collection ...... 3 • Bob Miller, Group Publisher, Workman • Booksellers Forums End Next Week in • Esther Newberg, Executive Vice President, International Creative Management (ICM) LaVergne & San Antonio ...... 4 • Skip Prichard, Chief Executive Officer, Ingram • ABFFE Seeks Booksellers for Alaska and • David Shanks, Chief Executive Officer, Penguin Group (USA) Massachusetts Censorship Cases ...... 4 • Oren Teicher, Chief Executive Officer, American Booksellers • Book Reviews From Harper's Magazine Association (ABA) Available to ABA Members ...... 5 • Scott Turow, Author and Incoming President, Authors Guild • Spotlight on ABA President Michael Tucker ..... 5 The Opening Plenary is an all-convention event and is open to all • Shelf Talkers Available for Indies Choice BEA badgeholders. Award Winners & Honor Books ...... 5 Following the plenary, ABA's education sessions, which are open • New Materials Available in E-Fairness Action to all BEA attendees, begin. For more information about ABA's Kit ...... 6 Day of Education, sponsored by Ingram, visit BookWeb.org 2 . For information and reservations for the official ABA hotel at BEA, the • Around Indies ...... 6 3 Park Central, click here . • BTW News Briefs ...... 6 For more information about BEA and to register, visit • Debate on Free Speech Rights of 4 bookexpoamerica.com . Corporations Added to BEA Program ...... 7 • Indie Booksellers Among Early Tinkers Fans Supreme Court Upholds Free Speech ...... 8 Rights • R.J. Julia Marks 20 Years ...... 8 • Blue Willow Brings Authors to TeenBookCon April 22, 2010 -- In a significant First Amendment decision, on Tuesday, April 20, the U.S. Supreme Court, by a vote of 8-1, ...... 9 declared unconstitutional a law banning photos, film, and video • Pacific Northwest Reader Features depictions of animal cruelty and, in doing so, rejected the federal Booksellers' Essays ...... 9 government's attempt to create a new exception to the First Amendment. Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., noted that the law "created a criminal prohibition of MARKETPLACE alarming breadth," which could have made the sale of magazines or • Classifieds ...... 10 videos showing hunting a crime in Washington, D.C., where • Other Advertising ...... 10 hunting is illegal. The decision was hailed by Media Coalition, a trade association that defends the First Amendment rights of mainstream media. In July 2009, the American Booksellers Foundation for Free CEO Panel Plenary to Kick Off Expression 5 (ABFFE) joined the Association of American Programming at BEA Publishers, the Freedom to Read Foundation, and other members of Media Coalition in filing an amicus brief in the case, U.S. v. April 22, 2010 -- BookExpo America and the American Stevens . Media Coalition had also played a key role in soliciting Booksellers Association are joining forces for the Opening Plenary briefs from a diverse constituency, including journalists, pet session at next month's trade show to create a major event of owners, and hunting groups.

The government's interpretation of the law sought to give federal of Theatre Owners, Inc., and PEN American Center. officials substantial power to decide whether certain words and images are worthy of First Amendment protection, using a Baker & Taylor to Sponsor Celebration "balancing test" that weighed the value of the speech against purported "societal costs." The court's decision soundly rejected of Bookselling Luncheon that proposition, saying that "[a]s a free-floating test for First April 22, 2010 -- ABA's Celebration of Bookselling Luncheon, a Amendment coverage, that idea is startling and dangerous." highlight of BookExpo America 8 exclusively for ABA member "As the court today recognized, giving the government booksellers, will be sponsored this year by Baker & Taylor. 'freewheeling authority' to judge the social worth of words and "Baker & Taylor is delighted to sponsor this year's Celebration of images is a dangerous proposition," said David Horowitz, Bookselling Luncheon," said David Cully, B&T's president of executive director of Media Coalition. "This landmark ruling retail markets and executive vice president of merchandising/digital affirms that First Amendment protections are not subject to media services. "We salute the American Booksellers Association balancing tests or limited to speech with so-called serious value." for the passion and expertise its members and our retail partners ABFFE President Chris Finan praised Media Coalition's role in the bring to bookselling." decision. "Media Coalition has represented booksellers in key legal "On behalf of all ABA member booksellers, we extend sincere cases for more than 30 years, and the Stevens case is one of the thanks to Baker & Taylor for its support of this year's Celebration most important," he said, "Justice Roberts' opinion seems to lean of Bookselling Lunch at BEA," said ABA CEO Oren Teicher. heavily on the arguments in the Media Coalition brief, and David "We're very appreciative that in supporting this event, B&T Horowitz did a terrific job in coordinating supporting briefs from recognizes not only the unique value of the Indie Next List and the other organizations." Indies Choice Book Awards, but also the importance of In the majority decision, the justices declined to carve out a new independent bookselling as a channel of distribution in our exception to free expression rights by placing depictions of animal industry." cruelty among the few, narrowly defined categories of unprotected The event, which is free and open exclusively to booksellers at speech. As Chief Justice Roberts put it: "Despite the government's ABA member stores, will be held on Wednesday, May 26, from assurance that it will apply [the law] to reach only 'extreme' cruelty, noon - 1:30 p.m. in the Javits Convention Center's Special Events this court will not uphold an unconstitutional statute merely Hall. All seven winners of the 2010 Indies Choice Book Awards 9 because the government promises to use it responsibly." Justice are planning to attend, as are many of this year's Honor Award Samuel Anthony Alito, Jr., was the sole dissenter, writing in the recipients and other handselling favorites. opinion that the government could legitimately balance free speech against purported "societal costs." Booksellers who would like to attend should register individually as soon as possible via an electronic reservation form on At issue in U.S. v. Stevens was a 1999 federal law that made it a Bookweb.org 10 . Questions regarding the lunch should be crime to create, sell, or possess videos and other depictions of addressed to Mark Nichols, ABA industry relations officer, at cruelty to animals. Violators were subject to up to five years in [email protected] 11 . prison for each count, as well as unspecified fines. The case arose when Virginia resident and published author Robert Winners to Attend Celebration of J. Stevens was sentenced to 37 months in prison in 2004 by a federal court in Pennsylvania for selling videos that showed pit Bookselling bulls fighting and training to hunt wild boar. As this week's April 22, 2010 -- All seven winners of this year's Indies Choice decision noted, the issue was not about banning dog fighting but Book Awards 12 will participate in next month's Celebration of about banning depictions of any kind of cruelty to animals, Bookselling at BookExpo America 13 . The May 26 lunchtime including legal activities such as hunting. Much of the footage in event, sponsored by Baker & Taylor, celebrates the relationship Stevens' videos is more than 30 years old or comes from foreign between indie booksellers and the titles they most enjoyed sources where dogfighting is legal. handselling during the past year. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals overturned Stevens' conviction Past Celebrations have been a highpoint of the show, and this year's in 2008, ruling that the law violated the First Amendment. The case event promises to continue that tradition. There's still time for two was argued before the Supreme Court 6 last October. booksellers at each ABA member store to come help fete this year's "It is clear from the opinion and the size of the majority that the Indies Choice winners: court heard the many voices concerned about this law," said • Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone (Knopf) -- Adult Fiction Horowitz. "The amicus briefs demonstrated that this law put at risk • David Grann, The Lost City of Z (Doubleday) -- Adult a broad range of newspaper articles, films, books, and images of Nonfiction hunting and wasn't limited to dogfighting videos." • Kathryn Stockett, The Help (Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam) -- The 15 groups that signed on to the Media Coalition brief are: the Adult Debut Association of American Publishers, Inc., ABFFE, the Association • Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire (Scholastic) -- Young Adult of American University Presses, the Comic Book Legal Defense • Rebecca Stead, When You Reach Me (Wendy Lamb Books) -- Fund, the Entertainment Consumers Association, Entertainment Middle Reader Merchants Association, Film Independent, the Freedom to Read • Jerry Pinkney, The Lion and the Mouse (Little, Brown) -- New Foundation, Independent Book Publishers Association, Picture Book Independent Film & Television Alliance, Independent Filmmaker • Kate DiCamillo -- Most Engaging Author Project, International Documentary Association, the National Also celebrated at the event will be this year's Indies Choice Book Association of Recording Merchandisers, the National Association

Awards Honor recipients and the three inductees to the Picture who have complied with their obligation to provide information to Book Hall of Fame: the [Department of Revenue]," said Department of Revenue • Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day , Secretary Kenneth R. Lay, as quoted in the WSJ . In a statement, an by Judith Viorst and Ray Cruz (Atheneum) Amazon.com spokesperson said, "the department did specifically • Madeline , by Ludwig Bemelmans (Viking) ask for 'all information for all sales to customers with a North • The Story of Ferdinand , by Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson Carolina shipping address.'" (Viking) However, Beth Stevenson, the North Carolina Department of Revenue's director of public affairs, noted in a statement to CNET The Celebration of Bookselling Lunch, from noon - 1:30 p.m. on News : "The Department of Revenue has not requested information Wednesday, May 26, in the Javits Center's Special Events Hall, is regarding specific titles of books or CDs. The request for free and open exclusively to two booksellers from each ABA 'product/item code or description' simply requested the type of member store. Booksellers who would like to attend should register product purchased, for example, 'book.' Information regarding the individually as soon as possible via an electronic reservation form type of product is necessary to determine the correct rate of tax." on Bookweb.org 14 . Questions regarding the lunch should be addressed to Mark Nichols, ABA industry relations officer, at As the debate played out, ABA made available to its members in [email protected] 15 . North Carolina a suggested letter to Gov. Bev Perdue that addresses two important principles highlighted by the lawsuit: sales tax fairness and reader privacy. Amazon.com Challenges North Carolina The letter's language makes clear that, from an independent Over Sales and Use Tax Collection bookseller's perspective, no government action should April 22, 2010 -- Earlier this week, Amazon.com filed a lawsuit in "compromise a reader's First Amendment right to privacy" because the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington were "the state to demand the specific titles of books a customer challenging the North Carolina Department of Revenue's request has purchased, it would create a chilling effect on the free flow of for data on residents who made purchases from the online giant. information." The department requested the information in an effort to enforce However, the letter also states independent booksellers do not use tax laws and has publicly stated it is only seeking general believe "the enforcement of use tax collection and reader privacy to 16 information, as reported by the Wall Street Journal . Nonetheless, be at odds" if the state is "simply asking remote retailers for general Amazon's lawsuit has sparked privacy concerns over the item information, such as 'TV' or 'book,' and total purchase amount department's request. in an effort to enforce use tax laws." --Dan Cullen 17 Oren Teicher, ABA CEO, noted that both reader privacy and sales tax fairness are critical issues for ABA member bookstores in all [STORE LETTERHEAD] states. "Certainly, we would strongly oppose any effort by the North Carolina Department of Revenue to seek title-specific data [DATE] on customer book purchases, as this would have a chilling effect on The Honorable Bev Perdue reader privacy," he said. "However, the collection of general Office of the Governor purchase information for purposes of use tax enforcement does not 20301 Mail Service Center violate the First Amendment, and we fully support the equitable Raleigh, NC 27699-0301 enforcement of sales and use tax laws. Moreover, Amazon.com's actions in North Carolina and other states have made only too clear Fax: (919)733-2120 that it will do whatever is necessary to maintain its competitive Dear Governor Perdue: advantage over competitors. The department's request for customer I am writing in regards to two important issues crucial to the information came about only because of Amazon.com's refusal to well-being of my business: sales tax fairness and reader privacy. collect sales tax." This week, Amazon.com, Inc., filed a lawsuit regarding what it Amazon.com's lawsuit is the second tussle the online giant has had alleged were the efforts of North Carolina's Department of Revenue with the state over sales and use tax laws in less than a year. In to force it to turn over data on North Carolina residents who August 2009, when North Carolina passed legislation to require purchased products from the online retailer. The department has online retailers with affiliates in the state to collect sales tax, since stated it seeks this customer data in an effort to enforce use Amazon.com quickly fired its affiliates in the state to avoid tax laws and that it is not asking Amazon.com for detailed collecting sales tax. However, state residents still must pay a use information that would provide specific book titles purchased. tax on online purchases, and this week North Carolina noted it Amazon's lawsuit attempts to construe reader privacy and the sought customer information from the online giant in its attempts to equitable collection of sales and use tax as competing goals. This collect those monies. has unfortunately clouded two issues important to my business. The Amazon.com's lawsuit alleges that the state's request for enforcement of sales and use tax laws and reader privacy need not information regarding customer purchases was overbroad. It argues be mutually exclusive. Were the state to demand the specific titles that North Carolina's efforts to compel it to turn over information of books a customer has purchased, it would have a chilling effect about sales it made to the state's residents since 2003 would violate on the free flow of information. However, news reports indicate its customers' privacy. However, the state's Department of Revenue that North Carolina is requesting less specific data that does not has characterized the lawsuit as "misleading" and has asserted that encroach on reader privacy. it is in no way violating the First Amendment rights of the online If that is the case, I have no issue whatsoever with simply asking retailer's shoppers, as reported by the Wall Street Journal . remote retailers for general item information, such as "TV" or "We have requested the same information from other businesses "book," and total purchase amount in an effort to enforce use tax

© 2010 American Booksellers Association. http://news.bookweb.org/ 3 BOOKSELLING THIS WEEK April 22, 2010 laws. Toward that end, I do not believe the enforcement of use tax Oren, that prompt other booksellers comments. I feel I learn so collection and reader privacy to be at odds. much from my fellow booksellers." Of the session "Techniques and For too long, businesses like mine have worked at a significant Tactics for Online Website Promotion," Droppert said, "I have my competitive disadvantage because Amazon.com has refused to handout in front of me now trying to apply all that was discussed. comply with current sales tax laws, including the affiliate nexus Yes. I already contacted Yelp a as business owner to get better law that the state passed last year. In fact, North Carolina's effort to information about the store on Yelp. Google webmaster -- I had no ascertain use tax information from Amazon.com has only come idea. Yes, always continuing to learn, or trying to at least, which is about because of Amazon.com's insistence on circumventing the what I feel ABA provides me with, information/tools to use collection of sales tax, which is indicative of Amazon's desire to whenever I find the time." maintain its illegal competitive disadvantage. "In addition to the finale of SCIBA's famed mashed potato bar (scrumptious), two presentations were extremely helpful," said I urge the state to continue its efforts to enforce existing sales and 22 use tax laws, but exhort you to please respect readers' rights to Tom Ahern, owner of Latitude 33 Bookshop in Laguna Beach, privacy in the process. about the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association's April 14 Schmooze Cruise II/Spring Meeting. "Wade Thank you for your consideration. Lucas of Random House, Tom Benton of Penguin, and Paul Sincerely, Cimusz of Baker & Taylor presented ideas on how bookstores can reach out beyond the walk-in customers to local businesses and [NAME] other organizations to increase sales. There were lots of audience [BOOKSTORE NAME & ADDRESS] ideas here, too." Of ABA's Booksellers Forum, held in conjunction with the SCIBA Booksellers Forums End Next Week in program, Ahearn added that participants "talked at great length on LaVergne & San Antonio what was happening with e-books and e-readers." Adrian Newell of Warwick's 23 in La Jolla, California, said, "I April 22, 2010 -- The American Booksellers Association's spring thought the Spring Forum was great! I loved the venue, the Queen forum schedule comes to an end next week with gatherings in Mary, and I enjoyed spending the day with colleagues to get LaVergne, Tennessee, and San Antonio, Texas. informed, refreshed, and energized. The sessions were informative On Wednesday, April 28, ABA CEO Oren Teicher and COO Len -- starting with a presentation on building B-to-B revenue that was Vlahos will lead a Booksellers Forum from noon - 2:00 p.m. at full of tips for generating more outside business, after which we Lightning Source, Inc. (1246 Heil Quaker Blvd., La Vergne). All enjoyed lunch while listening to Oren and Len address issues and area booksellers are invited. concerns that indies are facing, such as e-books, e-readers, and Internet sales tax collection. [That was] followed by a great Booksellers are encouraged to come with questions and comments. presentation by Len on techniques and tactics for online website Lunch will be served during the program. Following the forum, promotion." participants are invited to tour the Lightning Source facility, where they'll see Ingram's on-demand printing division in action. Participants at the SCIBA program "were fully engaged. The questions were good, the discussions lively, and the mashed potato Booksellers planning to attend are asked to RSVP to ABA bar was delicious!" said Newell. Meetings and Planning Officer Jill Perlstein 18 . Gary Colliver of Windows on the World-Books & Art 24 in On Thursday, April 29, Teicher and Vlahos will moderate a Mariposa, California, attended the session "Techniques and Tactics Booksellers Forum as part of the Mountains and Plains for Online Website Promotion," offered on April 18 in conjunction Independent Booksellers Association's (MPIBA) two-day Regional with the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association Focus Meeting in San Antonio, Texas. The forum and the Wi5 Spring Gathering. "The big take-home," he said, "was how to use education session "Techniques and Tactics for Online Website social media in promoting your store and website." Promotion" will be held at The Studio (adjacent to The Twig Book Shop) from 3:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. All ABA and MPIBA members Neal Sofman of San Francisco's Bookshop West Portal 25 reported are invited to participate in ABA's free program, which will be that Bookseller Forum program offered "a lot of good information followed by a reception with author Rick Riordan at The Twig about how the ABA is helping its members keep up with Bookstore. Booksellers are directed to the MPIBA 19 website for technology, and how it is ensuring a place for us in e-book sales." complete program details, registration forms, and hotel reservation And, he added, "These forums are always good. NCIBA and ABA information. always put together great education." Last week's forum participants offer good reviews About last week's ABA Booksellers Forum program held in ABFFE Seeks Booksellers for Alaska conjunction with MPIBA's regional focus meeting in Santa Fe, and Massachusetts Censorship Cases Jerry Brace of Brace Books & More 20 in Ponca City, Oklahoma, April 22, 2010 -- The American Booksellers Foundation for Free said, "Any time that Len and Oren talk about ABA and what's 26 offered, it's good." Brace added that he and his wife, Jean, "were Expression (ABFFE) is seeking bookstores to become plaintiffs both pretty not-informed about e-books ... so we felt we left with a in challenges to new censorship laws in Alaska and Massachusetts. better understanding.... It was certainly worthwhile." The laws ban the electronic communications of material that is 21 "harmful to minors," including the display of "harmful" book Suzanne Droppert of Liberty Bay Books in Poulsbo, Washington, jackets and excerpts on bookstore websites. who participated in last week's forum in Lake Forest Park, Washington, said, "I always enjoy the questions asked by Len and ABFFE has helped overturn eight similar laws -- two federal and six state statutes. "We were beginning to think that we had seen the

© 2010 American Booksellers Association. http://news.bookweb.org/ 4 BOOKSELLING THIS WEEK April 22, 2010 end of these patently unconstitutional laws, but we were wrong," Michael Tucker is president/CEO and co-owner of Books Inc. 32 , said ABFFE President Chris Finan. which has 12 locations throughout California, including Compass The Massachusetts law was passed in response to a controversial Books and Bzinc at the San Francisco International Airport. He has court decision that resulted in the release of a man who had sent served as an ABA board member since 2005, and is completing his sexual material to a minor. When the court ruled that his offense first term as ABA president. was not covered by current law, the legislature rushed to fix it. Before Tucker was offered a full-time job and store manager The Alaska measure, which will probably receive the governor's position at Books Inc. in the 1980s, he traveled in the Middle East, signature in the next couple of days, is part of a bill that bans the working on two major archeological digs in Israel; was employed sale to minors of all material that is "harmful," including books and by the now-defunct wholesaler Bookpeople in Berkeley for several magazines. ABFFE and Media Coalition, its legislative watchdog, years; and opened a graphic design firm. After founding the firm, were successful in significantly improving the bill before it was he "felt the draw back to bookselling" and simultaneously worked approved by the legislature, but proposed changes that would have at Printer's Ink and Books Inc. in Palo Alto. made the Internet provision constitutional were rejected. Tucker is currently working on the design concept for Books Inc.'s ABFFE noted that it has no objection to a law that prohibits a next store, another Compass Books, due to open at the newly person from sending inappropriate sexual material directly to a refurbished Terminal 2 of SFO in February 2011. specific minor. However, both the Alaska and Massachusetts laws Each Books Inc. location is actively involved in its community, and are much broader, and make it illegal to post material with serious the business has been honored for its contributions to local schools literary, artistic, political or scientific value on the Internet. "While by San Francisco School Volunteers. "It's essential to participate in 'harmful' material may be inappropriate for younger minors, adults and give back to the communities our stores support," Tucker said. and older minors have a First Amendment right to see, read and "Schools, libraries, local businesses, and charitable organizations hear it," said ABFFE. are part of the neighborhoods we exist in, and we can't thrive in ABFFE will participate in lawsuits filed by Media Coalition, and it them without reaching out and eventually giving back to those who is expected that national associations representing publishers, support us. Books Inc. donates back more than $100,000 every year librarians, and others will join the cases. to local schools and organizations that we partner with for in-store events, author luncheons, shopping nights, and book fairs." Local plaintiffs, including booksellers, are also needed. ABFFE noted that there is no cost to participate, and cases are usually Books Inc. is a member of both the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association 33 and the Southern California resolved without a trial. The plaintiff's only definite obligation 34 woulde be signing an affidavit that will be drafted by Media Independent Booksellers Association . The business is also an Coalition attorneys. active member of the San Francisco Locally Owned Merchants Alliance 35 . Booksellers who are interested in participating are asked to contact Finan at [email protected] 27 or (212) 587-4025, ext. 15. For his upcoming and last term on the board, "I will continue to pursue my commitment to the membership in our education programs and engagement in technology development," said Book Reviews From Harper's Magazine Tucker. "We also have opportunities for opening constructive Available to ABA Members dialog with many partners both within and outside the trade that can be of tremendous benefit to the membership. I will, along with April 22, 2010 -- Beginning this week, ABA member bookstores my fellow board members, make certain we expand those efforts." will have access to Harper's magazine's "New Books" feature, which had previously been available to Harper's subscribers only. The shifting bookselling landscape opens up some new prospects for indie booksellers, said Tucker. "For the first time in years, the The "New Books" column, written by Benjamin Moser, reviews pace of change in our trade is offering unique opportunities to three books each month. "We're so excited to launch a partnership independent booksellers. I know we have an ability not just to with such a storied magazine," said ABA Marketing Manager survive, but to prosper." -- Karen Schechner 36 Paige Poe. "Moser's 'New Books' column reflects Harper's intelligent and literary style, which is a great match for independent 37 booksellers and their customers." Read BTW 's profiles of board candidates Sarah Bagby of Watermark Books in Wichita, Kansas; Steve Bercu 38 of The full text of Moser's reviews are available to ABA members via 39 28 29 BookPeople in Austin, Texas; and Tom Campbell of The BookWeb.org in an HTML version of the column , which Regulator Bookshop in Durham, North Carolina; and vice stores are welcome to include in their customer newsletters. presidential candidate Becky Anderson 40 . See also BookWeb's Excerpts from the reviews will also appear on the book pages of complete board candidate bios 41 . IndieBound.org 30 . Booksellers who have questions about using the reviews can 31 Shelf Talkers Available for Indies Choice contact Poe at [email protected] or (800) 637-0037, ext. 6668. Award Winners & Honor Books Spotlight on ABA President Michael April 22, 2010 -- Shelf talkers for each of the 2010 Indies Choice Book Award winners and honor books are now available for Tucker download in PDF format 42 on BookWeb.org. April 22, 2010 -- Michael Tucker, of San Francisco's Books Inc., is Four shelf talkers easily print on a single 8-1/2" x 11" piece of on the ABA Board of Directors ballot for approval by membership paper. Each proclaims "winner" or "honor award" and features the for a second one-year term as ABA president. Ballots must be title, author, and publisher, along with the award category and the submitted electronically by midnight on April 26. Indies Choice Book Awards logo. A few general Indies Choice

Book Award "winner" shelf talkers round out the offerings. reached its 50th birthday. The store is on its third set of owners: Carl and Marilyn Baker-Madsen and Sherman and Alison Lewis New Materials Available in E-Fairness bought the bookstore last summer. The store was founded by Ken Action Kit and Virginia MacKenzie, and previously owned by Hank Maschal. Bookseller Renee Rettig described the store's appeal in the San Jose April 22, 2010 -- This week, the American Booksellers Association Mercury News 46 : "People push other things on other corners of the began adding state-specific fact sheets to the E-Fairness Action Kit block. We push books, and that's not illegal," she said. "It's a 43 (E-FACT) on BookWeb.org, ABA's member website. Fact sheets meeting place. Where else can people from all walks of life come are now available for California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and be equal?" Maine, New Mexico, and Tennessee. Over the next month, ABA will add fact sheets for each of the states that collect sales tax but do not yet have e-fairness laws. ABA launched E-FACT in January Newspaper Agrees 25 Years for Magic Tree Is "What's to provide booksellers with a wide array of state-specific tools to Important" help them in their e-fairness outreach efforts. The Oak Park, Illinois, Wednesday Journal published a community view column 47 by Victor Yipp celebrating the 25th anniversary of "These fact sheets will provide legislators with hard data about the 48 economic value that independent booksellers as a whole bring to Magic Tree Bookstore . His wife, Iris Yipp, and Rose Joseph are the state," said Oren Teicher, ABA CEO, who stressed that no the store's owners. bookstore-specific data is included in the fact sheets. "By In his column, "What's important: indie bookstores," Yipp combining the data from these facts sheets with anecdotal, frontline explained why Magic Tree is so important to its community: "They information as to how the current sales tax inequity is negatively compiled a diverse collection of children's titles that cannot be impacting their business, a bookseller has the ammunition to make matched in the Midwest, never mind their chain-store competitors. a solid case for sales tax fairness," Teicher said, adding that the fact Their foreign language selection is second to none. They sell books sheets are great "leave behinds" following face-to-face meetings the old-fashioned way -- hand-selling by committed employees with legislators or their staff. who read and review the books they recommend -- while also The fact sheets provide general economic data on independent maintaining a highly active presence on the Web. The store serves bookselling in each state. This includes: as a community hub by holding weekly story times for preschoolers, in-store concerts, book clubs, writing workshops and, • Overall annual sales for the state's ABA bookstore members; of course, author visits and signings," he wrote. • Total sales tax collection; • Number of ABA bookstore locations in the state; In the column's comments section, Lori Malinski agreed: "We hope • Approximate number of people employed by independent Magic Tree is around for a long, long, time!" she wrote. bookstore members; and • Estimated overall payroll. Powell's Focuses on Used Books for Earth Day 49 For booksellers in the 42 states that collect sales tax but do not Powell's Bookstore in Portland, Oregon, has long been noted for have e-fairness legislation, E-FACT provides booksellers with selling used copies of books next to new copies. Owner Michael state-specific template letters to their state legislators and governor Powell said he was skeptical when his father proposed blending the calling for e-fairness. Booksellers can simply go to E-FACT 44 and store's new and used inventory 40 years ago, but it "had synergy navigate to their state, where they will find the relevant documents way beyond what we expected." that can be adapted and then e-mailed to the appropriate person. In In honor of Earth Day, Powell's and Powells.com customers will the coming weeks and months, E-FACT will also include op-ed receive a free tote bag when they buy three or more used books. pieces, FAQs, relevant articles, and practical suggestions for The promotion runs from April 20 to 22. "Customers can sustain advocating on behalf of e-fairness. the environment and their wallets by reading used books," the store "No one can more effectively advocate on behalf of sales tax equity said in a press release. than indie booksellers," said Teicher. "A visit or call to your state legislators can be a major factor in getting sales tax fairness Greenlight Books Co-Owner Goes Full-Time introduced in your state, or in getting a bill passed. Moreover, if 50 you know a state legislator personally or professionally, we urge Six months after she opened Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn, you to speak to him or her about this critical issue -- or, if you New York, with Jessica Stockton Bagnulo, Rebecca Fitting is prefer, let us know and provide us with an introduction to the becoming a full-time bookseller. She had been working at the legislator." bookstore in addition to her day job as a sales representative for Random House. Booksellers who have questions, need assistance, or want more information on ABA's e-fairness efforts should contact Senior "I am looking forward to putting my years of industry experience to Public Policy Analyst David Grogan at (914) 373-6662 or via good use," Fitting said. "I think of my path as 'reverting to type,' e-mail at [email protected] 45 . because I started in bookstores, then went to work for a publisher for 10 years, and now am coming back to bookselling, which has always felt like my true calling." Around Indies April 22, 2010 -- BTW News Briefs

The Book Shop Marks 50 Years April 22, 2010 -- The Book Shop, a used bookstore in Hayward, California, recently

IndieBound to Launch in U.K. Next Week With the addition of Macmillan's frontlist titles, Edelweiss said that IndieBound is set to launch in the United Kingdom next week, its web-based publisher catalogs would now encompass more than according to The Bookseller 51 . Meryl Halls, head of membership 50,000 titles across 750 imprints from over 27 publishers. services for the Booksellers Association of the United Kingdom & Retailers, librarians, publicists, and other end users of publisher Ireland 52 (BA), told the audience at the London Book Fair's catalogs will be able to review a selection of Macmillan's fall 2010 Independent Initiatives Seminar on Tuesday afternoon, that the titles, including the Henry Holt Adult, Picador, St. Martin's Griffin marketing campaign was both "quirky" and "intelligent." Last and Roaring Brook Press catalogs, via Edelweiss by the end of November, ABA announced 53 it would be working with the BA to April. facilitate the IndieBound campaign in the U.K. Under the arrangement, the BA is licensing IndieBound marketing materials Consortium Adds Four Publishers for use by members of its Independent Booksellers Forum. Consortium Book Sales & Distribution has announced the addition The Bookseller noted that 200 registered booksellers would be of four publishers to its list of distribution clients for the fall 2010 receiving an IndieBound point-of-sale kit, including bookmarks, season. Titles from Ballistic Publishing, Frame Publishers, Monster posters, paper bags, and campaign materials, and an IndieBound Girl Media, and Totem Books will be available from Consortium, a website for booksellers was scheduled to go live next week. member of the Perseus Books Group, beginning June 1.

ABC Announces 2010 E.B. White Read-Aloud Shortlist SBA Extends Recovery Lending Through May 54 The Association of Booksellers for Children (ABC) has Last Thursday, President Obama signed legislation providing $80 announced the shortlist for the 2010 E.B. White Read-Aloud million in additional funding to continue enhancements in the U.S. Awards. The winners will be announced at ABC's Not-a-Dinner Small Business Administration’s 7(a) and 504 loan programs. and (Mostly) Silent Auction at BookExpo America on Tuesday, Established by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the May 25. enhancements include a higher guarantee on some SBA-backed Picture Books: loans and small business fee relief. SBA estimates the $80 million • 14 Cows for America, by Carmen Agra Deedy, illustrated by will support about $2.8 billion in small business lending under the Thomas Gonzalez (Peachtree) programs. • Once Upon a Twice, by Denise Doyen, illustrated by Barry In February 2009, SBA received $730 million to help small Moser (Random House) businesses, including $375 million to increase the SBA guarantee • Princess Hyacinth (The Surprising Tale of a Girl Who Floated), on 7(a) loans to 90 percent and to reduce borrower fees on most by Florence Heide Parry, illustrated by Lane Smith (Random 7(a) and 504 loans. The funds for these programs were exhausted in House) November 2009, and additional funding was authorized several • The Curious Garden, by Peter Brown (Little, Brown Books for times. Under the new extension SBA may continue to reduce loan Young Readers) fees in its 7(a) and 504 programs and to provide higher guarantee Older Readers: levels on 7(a) loans through May 2010, or until the funds provided • Leaving the Bellweathers, by Kristin Clark Venuti under the bill are exhausted. (EgmontUSA) • Tumtum and Nutmeg: Adventures Beyond Mouse Hall, by Debate on Free Speech Rights of Emily Beam, illustrated by Nick Price (Little, Brown Books for Corporations Added to BEA Program Young Readers) • The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z., by Kate Messner (Walker) April 22, 2010 -- The American Booksellers Foundation for Free 58 • Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, by Grace Lin (Little, Expression (ABFFE) will host a program at BookExpo America Brown Books for Young Readers) 59 that will explore the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to strike down limits on the money corporations can spend in political campaigns. Voting Open for 2010 Children's Choice Book Awards Critics of the decision, which held that corporations have First The Children's Book Council is inviting children, teachers, Amendment rights, predict that it will unleash a flood of booksellers, and librarians to cast their ballots for the 2010 contributions from wealthy companies, drowning the voices of Children's Choice Book Awards. Votes can be cast online at groups without resources. Groups like People for the American www.bookweekonline.com/voting between now and May 3. The Way and Public Citizen are calling for a constitutional amendment winners will be announced at a gala event hosted by author Mo to establish that corporations do not have First Amendment rights. Willems in New York City on Tuesday, May 11, in conjunction However, others worry that government restrictions on campaign with Children's Book Week (May 10 - 16). spending threaten the free speech rights of unions, the news media, even publishers. The majority opinion in the 5-4 decision noted that Information and resources for celebrating Children's Book Week 55 the government had conceded that the restrictions could apply to are available at bookweekonline.com . books. The prospect of amending the First Amendment is of deep concern to many free speech advocates. Macmillan to Publish Online Catalogs via Edelweiss The ABFFE program, "Free Speech for Corporations?," will On Tuesday, Above the Treeline 56 announced that Macmillan feature a lively exchange between advocates on both sides of the would publish selected frontlist catalogs on the web via Edelweiss debate. Ira Glasser, the former executive director of the American 57 , its interactive publisher catalog system. Civil Liberties Union, will discuss the concerns that led ACLU to oppose campaign finance restrictions. Robert Weissman, the

© 2010 American Booksellers Association. http://news.bookweb.org/ 7 BOOKSELLING THIS WEEK April 22, 2010 president of Public Citizen, will explain why his group is booksellers became fans. "This is absolutely an independent supporting a constitutional amendment to restore campaign bookstore story," said Cotleur. "It's what we do. We fall in love restrictions. with a book, and we do everything we can for it." "Free Speech for Corporations?" will be held on Thursday, May 27, For Cotleur, that meant giving Tinkers as a gift to friends she at 2:00 p.m. in Room 1E12 of the Javits Convention Center. The thought it was right for. One of those friends was critic John program is co-sponsored by ABFFE and the Association of Freeman, who included the book in his list of "The Best Debut American Publishers. Fiction of 2009 64 " on NPR. Filgate also shared her love for Tinkers beyond RiverRun's Indie Booksellers Among Early Tinkers customer base. She reviewed it for The Quarterly Conversation 65 , Fans interviewed Harding for the online journal Bookslut 66 , and talked it up to "everyone I ran into who was a reader," Filgate said. April 21, 2010 -- When Tinkers won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for fiction last week, author Paul Harding was understandably elated, One of those people was former New York Times Book Review as was Erika Goldman, editorial director at Bellevue Literary Press, editor Rebecca Sinkler. "I met her last year at a writers' conference, the book's publisher. So were several of the independent and gushed to her about the book," Filgate said. At the time, she booksellers who had steadily handsold and promoted the book had no idea that Sinkler was also the chair of the 2010 Pulitzer since it was published in January 2009. Prize jury for fiction. "It goes back to the incredible championing of the book by Lise The effort booksellers put into handselling Tinkers has paid off. " Solomon," Goldman said, citing the Consortium sales Tinkers is one of our bestselling books of all time at RiverRun," representative who brought the book to the attention of Bay Area Filgate said, and at Book Passage the paperback has sold well, in booksellers. One of those booksellers was Sheryl Cotleur, buyer at addition to the First Edition Club hardcover. "We just continued to Book Passage 60 , who "read it and loved it." tell people about it," and continued to sell the book one copy at a time, said Cotleur. Cotleur said Tinkers was "enormously evocative in its precise moments, and yet those moments are also eternal," and "very poetic "There are independent booksellers across the country who but also really accessible … the kind of writing you really savor." championed this book … the old-fashioned word-of-mouth way," She asked Goldman if Bellevue would print a limited hardcover said Bellevue editorial director Goldman. edition of the book, which had been published as a trade paperback, In early April, prior to the Pulitzer announcement, Tinkers was for Book Passage's First Editions Club. named a 2010 Indies Choice Book Award Honor recipient. "It was very exciting for us to have that opportunity," said Paul Harding will be signing copies of Tinkers for independent Goldman, who ordered a hardcover print run of 500 copies. Book booksellers on Wednesday, May 26, when he opens the day's Passage bought 250 copies, and Cotleur was impressed with autographing program from 10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. in the ABA Bellevue's responsiveness. "We had to do this very fast," she said, Bookseller Lounge at BookExpo America. He will also join ABA in order to have the hardcovers available by the January 2009 members at the Celebration of Bookselling Luncheon, where he publication date, "and they did it." Bellevue followed up with a will be recognized as a 2010 Indies Choice Honor recipient. second printing of hardcovers for Powell's, which featured the book --Sarah Rettger 67 in its Indiespensables program. On the basis of enthusiastic nominations from indie booksellers, R.J. Julia Marks 20 Years Tinkers was selected for the January 2009 Indie Next List 61 , where it appeared with a quote from Ty Wilson of Copperfield's Books 62 . April 21, 2010 -- Tinkers also attracted attention on the East Coast, where RiverRun 63 Bookstore events coordinator Michele Filgate ordered it for the Roxanne Coady store shortly after the novel's publication. "I picked it up because I and staff donned saw a blurb from Marilynne Robinson on the cover, and also party hats for the because the cover really struck me," she said. "I read the book and occasion. Photo©Tricia knew right away it was a very special book. I also knew it was one Bohan. of the best books I'd ever read in my entire life. I started telling all 68 of our customers about it." "It was meant to be just a little thing," R.J. Julia Booksellers owner Roxanne Coady said, describing the anniversary toast that Filgate invited Harding to read and sign at RiverRun. "I was kicked off her store's 20th anniversary celebration this week. "But beyond pleased that we had a really big audience for a first-time we had to close it off at two hundred people." author no one had heard of," Filgate said, "because I had talked the book up to everyone. So it was a moment where I truly saw the The customers who attended Tuesday's toast will be returning to power of indie booksellers to introduce readers to a good book, the store many times over the next few months, as the Madison, because this wasn't an author who was getting front-page New York Connecticut, store celebrates with book-related events, a party, and Times reviews." a project that Coady is most proud of: R.J. Julia will deliver more than a thousand books to New Haven elementary school students, Harding also visited Book Passage and other Bay Area stores after "as a gift from the store." Coady, who is also the chair of Read to Cotleur asked Goldman about getting the First Editions Club copies Grow 69 , a nonprofit literacy organization, said the book donation signed. "We immediately made space for him on our calendar," "feels to me like the right thing to celebrate 20 years." Cotleur said. Coady, who founded the store in 1990, said, "Those small moments Book Passage's staff book club read Tinkers , and more of the where you're part of the customer's life are the most satisfying."

But even though she loves to talk about how moved she was when (front row) George authors like Alice Sebold and Pete Hamill made personal O'Connor, connections with her customers, Coady is far from sentimental Elizabeth Eulberg, Jon Skovron. about bookselling. "As much as I love the book business, I love the business of business," she said. "I don't think it's going to be okay One of the highlights was Sharon Draper's keynote address. "She to sit still" as the book industry evolves. was almost like a preacher," Berner said, explaining to the teen As part of its own evolution, R.J. Julia will promote and expand its attendees that they fact that they chose to read was much more Just the Right Book 70 program, which was launched in November. important that what they read. "What we as independents know how to do is put the right book in In addition to watching "the enthusiasm of teens to meet their the right hands," Coady said. Through Just the Right Book, R.J. favorite authors," Berner said, Blue Willow, the official bookseller Julia booksellers combine their handselling skills with "a focus on at the event, also saw it as a chance to make connections of its own. books as gifts," allowing the store to expand its clientele by "There were a lot of librarians who we had never had the pleasure focusing its efforts. "I'm very excited about the prospects," she of meeting," but now those librarians have a relationship with the said. store that will continue through future TeenBookCons. "It was so Coady doesn't know what R.J. Julia and Just the Right Book will worth it."-- Sarah Rettger 74 look like in another 20 years, but she said she is both "thrilled about the challenge" and "determined to figure it out." --Sarah 71 Pacific Northwest Reader Features Rettger Booksellers' Essays Blue Willow Brings Authors to April 21, 2010 -- HarperCollins Vice President for Independent Retailing Carl Lennertz has pulled together a second collection of TeenBookCon regional essays inspired by State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of April 21, 2010 -- The April 10 Greater Houston TeenBookCon 72 America (edited by Matt Weiland and Sean Wilsey, Ecco). proved that "yes indeed, Houston can put on some great events," Booksellers and librarians from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and said Cathy Berner. As the events coordinator and children's/young Alaska contributed to the Pacific Northwest Reader 75 , which is adult specialist at Blue Willow Bookshop 73 , Berner was one of the available now. The first regional collection, the Great Lakes festival's organizers. Reader 76 , was published last year. Lennertz, who oversaw the project, had enthusiastic praise for the many people who volunteered their services to produce the book. Teens at the "Not Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association 77 Executive Director Your Parents' Comic Books" Thom Chambliss "helped round up some contributors," he said, panel. "and Brian Jungeman wrote the state facts and trivia that leads off each section." "We had four hundred people for our first year, and that was a Delphinium Books, a small press distributed by HarperCollins, thrill," Berner said. "It exceeded our expectations for an inaugural covered the printing costs. Delphinium is best known for Joseph event." The festival, the first of its kind in Houston, was inspired by Caldwell's The Pig Did It series, which has appeared on several a similar event for teens in upstate New York. Berner and Indie Next Lists. "I won't shut up about it until more stores get on TeenBookCon co-chairs Aria Tatelman of Duchesne Academy and the pig bandwagon," Lennertz said. Lisa Stultz of Alief Hastings High School began organizing in September. The Pacific Northwest Reader , which is distributed by Partners West, is also a fundraiser for the American Booksellers Foundation "Blue Willow's big thing was bringing the authors in," Berner said, for Free Expression 78 (ABFFE). HarperCollins is contributing $1 while the librarians organized volunteers and logistics for the event, for each copy sold to ABFFE. which was held at Alief Hastings High School. "The publishers were very generous in sending good people," so Berner was The 16 contributors shared stories from a wide range of pleased with the combination of new and established authors and backgrounds, locations, and experiences. Gigi Little, a bookseller at graphic novelists who were present. The festival, which was free Powell's in Portland, Oregon, said her essay "started out as a fun and open to everyone, featured three author panels, autographing project and turned into an act of honoring: honoring this place, tables, and lunchtime entertainment. honoring how I got here, honoring the man I came here for, and finally, honoring libraries and independent bookstores, especially the one that has become as much my home as Portland has." TeenBookCon Other booksellers, and former booksellers, contributing to the Authors: (back collection are Annie Tupek, of Gulliver's Books in Fairbanks, row) Gayle Forman, Marjetta Alaska; John Libal, formerly of Title Wave Books in Anchorage, Geerling, Shawn which is still managed by his wife, Angela; Marcia Vanderford, of Fillbach, Paula Vanderford's Books & Office Products in Sandpoint, Idaho; Judi Morris, Beth Lohrey Wutzke, of …and BOOKS, too! in Lewiston, Idaho; Ann Fantaskey, Matt Combs, of Eagle Harbor Book Company, on Bainbridge Island, Fillbach, Sharon Draper, Jimmy Washington; April Nabholz of Grass Roots Books and Music in Gownley, Cynthia Corvallis, Oregon; Susan Scott, of The Secret Garden Bookshop in Leitich Smith, Seattle; Matthew Simmons, of University Book Store in Seattle; Judson Roberts, Rem Ryals and Sarah Hutton, both of Village Books in Terry Moore;

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