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Archive for Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for the book trade
- Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!
- Two Movie Tie-Ins: Valkyrie, Marley & Me
- Notes: Shopping Under Pressure; Reading More E-books
- To the Consumer, 'It's All Frontlist!'
- Great. Holiday. Campaign. At. Copperfield's!
- Gifts: The 'Life-affirming Experience' of Reading
- Robert Gray: What If It All Works Out?
- Book Review: The Invention of Air
- Media Heat: An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination
- This Weekend on Book TV: Alphabet Juice
- The Wind in the Willows 'Always Welcomes You Back'
- Holiday Hum: Capitol Book & News Company Marks a Milestone
- Image of the Day: Backlist Book Bash
- Notes: Borders Extends Deadlines; Crafts Sales Build Steam
- Book Review: The Power of Four
- Attainment: New Books Out Next Week
- Media Heat: Christopher Plummer, In Spite of Himself
- Book Brahmins: Stephanie Kallos
- Movies: Four for Christmas and Boxing Day
- Shelf Starters: The Error World
- Media Heat: American Buffalo
- Notes: Bookkeeper Booked; Pre-Xmas Weekend Weathered
- IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites
- Time for Publishers and Booksellers to Get Back to Basics
- Book Advice: 25 Cents
- Holiday Hum: Exploring Wide World Books & Maps
- Notes: Inauguration Poet; Vroman's Happy Holidays Video
- Awards: 2009 Man Booker Prize Judges Named
- Book Brahmin: Kristy Bell
- Shelf Sample: Script and Scribble
- Media Heat: American Rifle
- YALSA Institute, Part II: Reaching Teens Where They Live
- Running Press Sweet on M/M Romantic Fiction
- Image of the Day: Ho Ho Ho
- Tweet Me that You Love Me: An Author-Indie Valentine
- Notes: Downtown Tempe Shift; Men's Wrapping Dream
- This Weekend on Book TV: A Passion for Mars
- Media Heat: Charro Claus and the Tejas Kid, a Christmas Tale
- Children's Book Review: The Fetch
- Robert Gray: Outrunning the Grinch
- Restructuring at Macmillan Children's Publishing Group
- Notes: Another Bookstore Goes Online-Only; Bookseller Recos
- Holiday Hum: Tattered Cover's Festive Marketing
- Book Review: Fifty Miles from Tomorrow
- Media Heat: Marilynne Robinson and Home
- Movies: New Moon for Thanksgiving 2009
- NAIPR Unveils Frontlist Plus Universal
- Midwest Connections: Three Titles
- Borders Will Buy HarperStudio Nonreturnable
- Omnivore Books on Food, a San Francisco Treat
- Notes: Other Shoe Drops at Macmillan; Gotham Book Mart's Home
- Awards: 800-CEO-READ Business Books
- Media Heat: Meryl Gordon Does Not Regret
- Book Review: The Magician's Book
- Attainment: New Titles Out Next Week
- Movies: The Tale of Despereaux
- Image of the Day: The Aristotle Quest
- Readers' Survey: 'Brains Contribute to Sex Appeal Too'
- Image of the Day: Talk of the Town Book Store
- Notes: Borders to Close Five Stores; Sports Book Crystal Ball
- Roy Blount Jr.: 'Let's Mount a Book-buying Splurge'
- October Sales: Booksellers Slip, Publishers Fall
- Media Heat: Strong Kids, Healthy Kids
- IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites
- Shelf Awareness Picks of the Year: Part Two
- Books as Great Gifts
- Holiday Hum: Investigating More Mystery Bookstores
- Notes: Used Book Re-Gifters; Squirrely Economy
- Book Review: The Moon Opera
- IMBA's Top-Selling Titles in November
- Media Heat: Peter Pan Pop-Up; Wimpy Kid Pick
- Book Brahmins: Jon Anderson
- Adieu to the 10-Digit ISBN
- Movies: More Books Relating to The Argentine
- This Weekend on Book TV: Will Terrorists Go Nuclear?
- Notes: Online Sales Up; Bush Cites Darfur Memoir; New Stores
- Media Heat: The Ascent of Money
- Shelf Awareness Picks of the Year: Part One
- Holiday Hum: More than Mystery at Mystery Lovers Bookshop
- Lincoln Title Proclamation
- Children's Book Review: I Heard God Talking to Me
- Film Rights: How to Talk to Girls
- Notes: Bookseller's Christmas Tale; Food & Books in Seattle
- Robert Gray: What Do You Do?
- Movies: Doubt and The Argentine
- Media Heat: Don't Go There!
- Book Review: Don't Stop Believin'
- Le Clézio: Books are 'Practical, Easy to Handle, Economical'
- A Celebration of Studs Terkel
- Notes: Shop the 5th in Virginia; Pulpwood Queens' Favorites
- Movie: The Reader
- Media Heat: Wishful Drinking
- Mandahla: Dreams of a Robot Dancing Bee
- Three Southern Bookstores Bid Adieu
- Hear Ye, Hear Ye: Grammy Spoken Word Nominees
- Movies: Translating The Reader
- Holiday Hum: Shoppers Buy Into RiverRun's Recommendations
- Media Heat: Raising Bookworms
- IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites
- Book Review: Tokyo Fiancée
- Notes: 'Local First' in Vermont; New Indie Bookshops in St. Louis
- AbeBooks.com's Top 10 in November: Obama Sweeps
- Holiday Hum: Behind the Scenes at Porter Square Books
- Awards: Guardian First Book; Best Translated Book Longlist
- Notes: General Retailers' November Drop; Times Top Ten Promo
- Media Heat: Sir David Frost on CBS Sunday Morning
- Book Review: Creative Capitalism
- Movies: Depp Acquires In the Hand of Dante
- Midwest Connections: Old Farm; A Cook's Journey
- Book Brahmin: Jesse Kornbluth
- 'Next': Digital Books Come Home
- This Weekend on Book TV: American Lion
- 'Black Wednesday' at New York Publishing Houses
- Notes: Books, a 'Crazy' Gift Idea; Tales of Beedle the Bard
- YALSA Institute: Listening Is Reading--An Odyssey in Audiobooks
- Children's Book Review: One Beetle Too Many
- Media Heat: George Hamilton Doesn't Mind If He Does
- YALSA Institute: Gene Luen Yang on How America Reads Graphic Novels
- Location, Location, Location Will 'Keep the Physical Book Alive'
- Holiday Hum: Dogs, Cats and More at Maine Coast Book Shop
- Media Heat: Katrina Karkazis on Fixing Sex
- Las Comadres' Book Picks for Next Year
- Robert Gray: Positive Shades of Gray on Black Friday--Part II
- Notes: Book Prices a Draw?; Studs Terkel Memorial
- Robert Gray: Positive Shades of Gray on Black Friday--Part I
- Notes: Weekend Sales; IndieBound Wishes; Drive-Thru Buyback
- Media Heat: OMG, Txtng Xprt on Tlk o' Nation
- Movie: The Other Man
- Attainment: New Books Out Next Week
- Shelf Sample: The Salt-Box House
- Indie Bookstores the 'Sober Equivalent' of Local Bars
- Black Friday: General Retail and Booksellers in the News
- Media Heat: Boy Talks About Talking to Girls
- Awards: Inaugural Cundill International Prize; Cervantes Prize
- Notes: Bookstore as Hub of the Community; Cambridge Community
- Borders Results, Part Two: Fine Tuning Inventory
- Book Review: Shoot an Iraqi
- IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites
- Happy Thanksgiving!
- Borders Sales Drop; Company No Longer for Sale
- Pennie's Pick: The Hour I First Believed
- Awards: Bad Sex in Fiction Prize
- Notes: That Whacky Publishing Industry; Poetry-Loving President?
- Holiday Hum: Gift-Giving with Benefits at Nicola's Books
- This Weekend on Book TV: Confessions of an Eco-Sinner
- Midwest Connections: The Plain Sense of Things
- Book Review: A Great Idea at the Time
- Book Review: The Lost Art of Walking
- Media Heat: Curtis Roosevelt, Grandson of FDR and Eleanor
- Cool Idea of the Day: Keeping Customers Aware
- Image of the Day: A Tasty Event
- Awards: Original Voices Nominees
- Robert Gray: A Black Friday By Any Other Name . . .
- Image of the Day: Book-Toting President-Elect
- Media Heat: Marty Stuart's Country Music
- Mandahla: Safe Passage
- Mandahla: Mouth Wide Open
- Attainment: New Books Out Next Week
- Notes: Houghton Holds on Acquisitions; e-Random House
- Notes: Borders Edges Lower; Shift in Political Titles
- Media Heat: A Toast to Veuve Clicquot Herself
- Nameberry: Balancing Internet Baby with Books
- Movie: Milk
- Shelf Sample: Between the Covers
- Book Review: The Urban Hermit
- Books-A-Million's Third Quarter: Comp-Store Sales Drop 9.9%
- IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites
- Bad News from Big Booksellers
- Movies: The Bourne Prosperity
- Image of the Day: A New School in Afghanistan
- Reading 'Will Never Do Any Harm'
- Awards: Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Shortlist
- Notes: America Unchained Day; Bag the Bag Challenge
- Mandahla: The Long Road Home
- Mandahla: The Peculiar Life of Sundays
- Book Brahmin: Simon Hopkinson
- Awards: National Book Awards; PNBA Book Awards Shortlist
- Media Heat: Outliers
- Children's Book Review: Eon: Dragoneye Reborn
- Movies: Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter
- Notes: Family Bookstore in Chico; Charity Book Sale in N.Y.C.
- This Weekend on Book TV: The Ascent of Money
- Robert Gray: Fun Books List Is 'Never Finished'
- Image of the Day: First Chapter for Stories
- Awards: Governor General Winners
- Oregon Baby Named After Parents' Favorite Bookstore
- Book Review: Forgotten Patriots
- Turning Children on to Reading
- Holiday Hum: Books & Crannies Gets Set for Season
- Notes: Holiday Expectations; Robin's Retrenching
- Media Heat: Another FDR Book
- Movie: Twilight Dawns; Danish Girl Begins Filming in 2009
- Book Review: Renegade for Peace & Justice
- Third Quarter: Hastings Sales Fall 6.5%; Books Up 1%
- Bookstore Burglary Lessons: Back Up, Back Up, Back Up
- The 'Real, Urgent Need to Connect' with Young Readers
- Media Heat: Michael Lewis and Panic
- Notes: Two Bookseller Profiles; Obama Recommends . . .
- Linda Jones to Retire from Borders
- Attainment: New Titles Out Next Week
- Mandahla: And More Gift Books
- Writing's the Easy Part
- September Bookstore Sales Fall 4.5%
- Mandahla: More Gift Books
- Media Heat: Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell's Story of Success
- Notes: New, Expanded Stores; Celebrations
- IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites
- Awards: Roald Dahl Funny Prize
- HBO Orders Pilot for A Game of Thrones
- Mandahla: Gift Books
- Book Brahmin: Patrick Taylor
- Image of the Day: Third Place's 10th
- Media Heat: Phelps on 60 Minutes
- Notes: More Bookselling in Tough Times; New Store
- New Owners, New Horizons for L.A.'s Mystery Bookstore
- Craig Popelars, Workman's Bookstore Man
- 'The Most Exciting Thing in the World . . . Just a Book'
- A Good Sign for the Season?: Busy Children's Book Fair
- Notes: Latino Book Boom in New York; Miami Book Fair
- Books as the Best Gifts: Two More Campaigns
- Media Heat: Travel Editor on What to Miss
- Awards: Ravens; National Outdoor Book Awards
- This Weekend on Book TV: Miami Book Fair International Live
- Children's Review: Headlong
- Robert Gray: One Reader's Key to the Imperial City
- Awards: Giller Winner
- Books as the Best Gifts: Three Campaigns
- Notes: A Rare Shop; Charlotte Bookstores and the Economy
- Opening Doors on Q
- Media Heat: Alex & Irene Pepperberg
- Movies: Quantum of Solace and Slumdog Millionaire
- Book Brahmin: John Addiego
- Mandahla: Photography Gift Books
- Awards: Dylan Thomas Prize
- Movies: 'Unfilmable' Midnight's Children to be Adapted
- Notes: 'Nervous' Holidays; Vroman's Cancels Expansion Plans
- Mandahla: And More Cookbooks
- Media Heat: Annie Leibovitz at Work
- Attainment: New Books Out Next Week
- Top 10 Sellers in October at AbeBooks.com
- Media Heat: Ted Turner Makes the Rounds
- 'The Library Has Always Been a Window to a Larger World'
- Notes: Bookstore Birthdays; Telling Tales
- Hudson's Best Books of 2008
- Mandahla: More Cookbooks
- IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites
- October General Retail Sales: 'A Collapse'
- Obituary Note: John Leonard
- Customers 'Want a Warm Retreat in a Dark, Cold World'
- Notes: Novel Adventure's New Chapter; IndieBound's 'Wish List'
