Archive for Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for the book trade

• Happy New Year!
• Media Heat: Robert Pinsky, Gert Boyle
• The Book Sense/SEBA List
• Notes: Patriot Act Extended Five Weeks
• Abebooks.com's Top 20 Titles of 2005
• Media Heat: Food, Saint Nick, Being Jewish
• This Weekend on Book TV: Oxford's History of the U.S.
• Notes: Patriot Act Extended; Atlanta's Charis in Trouble
• S.F. Chronicle Dishes Up Cookbook Recommendations
• For Cornerstone Books, Community Is Keystone
• Two Books That 'Sharpen the Mind, Stir the Heart'
• Full Circle: Sorensen Returns to NEBA
• Holiday Hum: Big Books at Borders
• Notes: Downtown Boulder; McCain on the Road
• Mandahla: Home Rules Reviewed
• Media Heat: Petroleum Man
• Unwarranted Spying?
• BISG's Abraham Moves Up Supply/Food Chain
• Good News/Bad News About B&T and Old Koen Books
• Notes: More Help for Katrina Victims; Books and Batteries
• Boomer Goes Long for Five Football Titles
• Media Heat: Trying on Full Metal Jacket
• Mandahla: Photocraft Reviewed
• Notes: 'Radical Militant Librarians'; Code Followers
• Mandahla: Kate Brown's Weekends Reviewed
• Holiday Hum: Sunny December at Rainy Day Books
• Media Heat:
• No Bleep, Sherlock
• The Book Sense/Heartland List
• Media Heat: Vineyard-Hopping wtih Robert M. Parker
• Notes: Holiday Titles; Helping the New Orleans P.L.
• Mandahla: Fatal As a Fallen Woman Reviewed
• Notes: Store Moves; Story Contests
• Holiday Hum: breathe books's Unusual Christmas Spirit
• The Accidental, Excellent Bookseller
• Mandahla: Lost Stories Reviewed
• Media Heat: Loengard's Life at Life
• Book TV This Weekend: Evolution and Taxes
• More Choices from Reading Group Choices
• Census Bureau: Bookstore Sales Off in October
• Mandahla: What in the Word? Reviewed
• Holiday Hum: LightWedge Mini Gets Maximum Boost
• Notes: RJ Julia's Reminders; Debi Echlin Remembered
• Media Heat: Divorce and Darwin
• After a Quick 13 Years, Media Play Signs Off
• Cheuse Chooses Holiday Books
• Holiday Hum: The King's English's Local Buys
• Media Heat: A $200 Stocking Stuffer
• Notes: Aussie Augmentation; Harper's Digital Deal
• Borders's Edge in Older Workers
• Mandahla: The Wet Engine Reviewed
• Chronicle Chronicle; Brokeback Mountain's Height
• The Times Book Review's Top Ten of the Year
• Grand New Store in Grand Rapids
• Notes: New, Resurrected and Damaged Stores
• Media Heat: Opus Dei Opus
• Mandahla: Times Like These; Kenyon's Poems
• Holiday Hum: Blue Willow, Part 2
• Media Heat: Larry the Cable Guy Connects
• Notes: Patriot Act Dud; Bookstore Bequest
• The Book Sense/NEBA List
• Holiday Hum: Blue Willow's 10% Solution
• This Weekend on Book TV: Yikes, The Age of Anxiety
• Notes: 'Our Own Bookmasters'; Sooty Christmas
• Media Heat: G Is for Grafton
• Crimes at Christmas: Recommended Mysteries
• ONIX Online Directory Online Now
• Media Heat: New Orleans, Wall Street, Paris
• Notes: Kakuro; Gullah Bible; Reading Lolita Everywhere
• Mandahla: Two Cookbooks Reviewed
• Holiday Hum: Koen-Levy Sleighs Flying Again
• Media Heat: Blogs and the Brill Building
• The Growing Hunger for Rachael Ray Titles
• Notes: B&T for Sale; Bookstore Cats and Dogs
• Book Sense Picks: January
• New 'Kick-Ass' Stores in the Hudson Valley
• Holiday Hum: Odyssey's Voyage
• ST Is for the Smartest Thing
• Media Heat: Nemcova on the Tsunami
• Christmas 'Carnage' in the U.K.
• Movie Tie-ins: Brokeback Mountain, Geisha, Narnia
• Notes: Stores Closing and Saved; Half Moon
• Superstore Milestones: Openings and Closings
• Notes: Figuring Sales; Distribution Changes
• Holiday Hum: Copperfield's Gifts of Comfort and Joy
• Media Heat: Former Prisoner William Sampson
• The Book Sense/NAIBA List
• This Weekend on Book TV: John Updike in Depth
• A Health Book Prescription
• BookStream Stocks Up on Staff
• Holiday Hum: Book Stall's 'Exciting, Dynamic' November
• Our Singing and Dancing Apology
• Media Heat: That Author, Marlo Thomas
• Notes: Fire at Von's; Number Bzz
• Books for Understanding: Reproductive Rights
• In Memoriam: Tom Fritzinger
• Borders Original Voices: The Finalist Voices
• Holiday Hum: Merry Main Street Books
• Media Heat: Peggy Noonan, Maureen Dowd
• Notes: Berenstain Dies; Cyber Monday Hot
• PageTurner Awards: Thrill of Victory
• Holiday Hum: 'Fabulous' Weekend for Norwich
• Best Books of the South
• Notes: Echlin Dies; Cyber Monday
• The Gospel on Chick Lit
• Media Heat: Alan Alda
• Mandahla: The Smaller Majority Reviewed
• Attainment: New Books Out Next Week
• Notes: 'Bubbling Up' Book Recommendations; Hot Harry
• Prizes: Slager and Friedman Winnters
• Black Friday Tidbits: Glass of Egg Nog Half Full
• Bridge Street Bookshop's Boffo Black Friday
• Media Heat: Ornaments and Drugs
• Ingram Publishers Now Amount to 15
• Hastings Hurts as Games and Rentals Deactivate
• Beach Books Sets up Shop Seaside
• Book TV This Weekend: Coffee in the Evening
• Media Heat: Suppers and 30-Minute Meals
• Notes: Globe Corner Returns; Labour Problems
• Mandahla: Coming Out of War Reviewed
• 'Black Monday' Cheer
• Librarian-Author-Publisher-Educator Votes for Google
• Karibu Continues to Grow: Welcome to Baltimore
• Ho Ho Ho: New Mexico Seasonal Store Returns
• Media Heat: Carter, Karabel
• Attainment: New Books This Week and Next
• Movie Tie-ins: The Ice Harvest, Syriana
• BAM: Hurricanes Hurt Sales; Insurance Helped Earnings
• Anatomy of a Bestseller
• Notes: Potter on Fire; Martha in Minneapolis
• Patriot Act: Six Senators Threaten Filibuster
• B&N Boosted by Hardcovers; Estimates Up
• Notes: New Daedalus Store; Kentucky's Textbook Study
• The Book Sense/PNBA List
• Media Heat: Teri Garr, John McCain
• Holiday Wholesaler Help
• Booksellers Bolster Books Building Bridges
• Notes: Patriot Act; Hurd in the Times
• Riverhead Pair Head to Doubleday Broadway
• Bookstore Tourism Foundation Founded
• Awards, Part 1: The National Book Awards
• Awards, Part 2: The Governor General's
• Media Heat: Poets; Realization
• Book TV: Miami Book Fair International Live
• Sluggish September: Bookstore Sales Slip
• Borders Earnings Fall; Superstore Book Sales 'Solid'
• Movie Tie-in: Walk the Line
• Witch Book Should Be Taxed?; BAM's Alabaster Vision
• Prizes: Whitbread Shortlist; Thurber Smiles On America
• Media Heat: Willie Nelson
• Consortium Addendum: Seven New Publishers
• Notes: Deloria Dies; Holiday View; Goodnight Controversy?
• Tattered Cover's Next Store; Flagship May Furl Some Sails
• Media Heat: 'Tis Frank McCourt
• Movie Tie-in: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• Attainment: New Books This Week and Next
• Mandahla: Call It a Gift Reviewed
• Notes: Paradies Flies; Google the Renter?; Nonprofits
• Media Heat: Stewarts Unite
• Unabridged Books Unbridled at 25
• Notes: Holiday Prep; Times Correction
• Media Heat: James Patterson, Harvey Pekar
• The Book Sense/SCBA List
• Pennie's Pick: Runaway
• World Fantasy Awards
• Notes: Happy Birthday, Shaman Drum; Pride, Prejudice, Sequels
• Media Heat: From Rushdie to Franken
• Book Sense Notable Picks: December
• Book TV: Governor Richardson; Chairman Mao
• AMS Restates Earnings, Nears 10-Q Filings
• Award: The Giller; A New MWA Grand Master
• The B&T/Koen Boomerang
• Media Heat: Thin Japanese Women
• Notes: Cody's 'Cachet of Cool'
• History Channel Salutes Tin Can Sailors
• Manga Ever More Mainstream
• Abebooks.com Finds and Buys BookFinder.com
• Notes: Authors' New IDs; Ariel Tribute
• Movie Tie-ins: Bee Season, Zathura, Pride and Prejudice
• Media Heat: Jeff Foxworthy
• Mandahla: A Left Hand Turn Reviewed
• Digital Directions
• The December Book Sense Picks
• Attainment: New Books Out Next Week
• Loving New Orleans
• Media Heat: Man on the Moon on TV
• Notes: Decaneas Dies; Big Stores
• Amazon Ups the E-Ante
• General Retail Sales: Glass Half Fuller
• Notes: ABACUS Overview; Da Vinci Departs; AppleKids
• The Book Sense/MPBA List
• Hurston/Wright Legacies for the Year
• Media Heat: The Pope, A Governor, A Crack
• Café Scientifique to Open Doors and Minds Next Week
• Book TV: Doris Kearns Goodwin in Depth
• Notes: Bookstore Wanted; Indigo's Black Ink
• Media Heat: Yoko on John
• Original Voices Choices at Borders
• Hot Off the Presses: Reading Group Choices 2006
• Jocelyn Wins Canadian Children's Award
• The Bookstore As School of Life
• Notes: ABC Head to Retire; New New Paltz Bookstore?
• Media Heat: Jarhead Swofford
• Joseph-Beth's Books of the Year
• Winters Winner of Lenore Marshall Prize
• Borders Additions, Some With Spanish Accents
• E-Text Pilot Program Takes Full Course Load Next Semester
• Notes: Librarians on Google; 'Wanted' Prospective Bookseller
• Media Heat: Boxer to Spar on the Daily Show
• Movie Tie-in: Jarhead
• Mandahla: Music Through the Floor Reviewed
• Teaching Power of One Book
• Frugal Frigate: Fans Eat Up Unusual Event
• Media Heat: Ken Follett on the Thriller
• Attainment: New Books Out Next Week
• The Long Tail Keeps Wagging
• Notes: Cool Capote; Transition's Problems
• One Bookstore Experience
• Florida Stores in the Wake of Wilma
• Notes: Honored--and Haunted--Bookstores
• Movie Tie-in: Duelling Wal-Mart Documentaries
• The Book Sense/NCIBA List
• Media Heat: Leno to Appear on Leno
• Spotlight on Simon Spotlight
• Bookstore in Vegas on a Roll
• Notes: New New and Used Stores; Another Parks Book
• Wall Street Rewards BAM, Punishes Amazon
• Media Heat: From Beethoven to the Middle East
• Book TV: Tidwell and Barry on Katrina and New Orleans
• Amazon Reports: Cautious About the Holidays
• Notes: 1.7 Million Copies of Million
• Media Heat: Frey on Oprah
• Traveling Literary America
• Books in Nooks: A Bookstore of Her Own
• Notes: Rosa Parks; Laguna Store; Mall Award
• Media Heat: Al Franken (with Jokes)
• Mandahla: Jesus Land Reviewed
• Attainment: New Books Next Week, Vol. 2
• Movie Tie-in: The Legend of Zorro
• Notes: Store to Close; New Cafe and Soda Bar
• Sarasota Store Sold; Building Brings Big Return
• Wholesale Change: Koen and Levy Team Up
• Attainment: New Books Next Week, Vol. 1
• Media Heat: Joan Didion, Jerry Lewis
• Back with a Bang: Kepler's Unveils Autumn Literary Festival
• Audio's Continental Clout
• Notes: BAM Aims for Full Standing; Store Closing
• Media Heat: The King, the Chairman and Air Jordan
• The Book Sense/Heartland List
• Footsteps Run with Movie Festival