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Rowman & Littlefield Launches E-bookstore
Rowman & Littlefield has opened its e-bookstore, going live with roughly 12,000 titles.
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Updates for Indies: Powell's Renovates; Politics & Prose Launches Lit Mag
Powell's Books is doing a "seismic" update to its flagship store, which occupies a city block in Portland; Politics & Prose launches literary journal.
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Above the Treeline Branches Out
Above the Treeline, which introduced its Edelweiss digital catalogue database to the industry at BookExpo America in 2009, continues to add to the services it provides to the 140 companies it works with, as well as to its 34,000 registered users.
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Children's Book Week 2013: A Bookstore Photo Essay
Here's a look at the May 13–19 celebrations, held in more than 50 cities across the U.S.
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Borders Gift Card Holders to Get Nothing
The Borders bankruptcy plan will continue, without payments for any of the unredeemed $210.5 million on approximately 17.7 million outstanding gift cards.
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E-book Sales Were 15% of Canadian Market in 2012
BookNet Canada's latest consumer survey results suggests that e-book unit sales in Canada accounted for about 15% of the market.
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Barefoot Books Stops Selling to Amazon
Seven years after Barefoot Books in Cambridge, Mass., cut off Barnes & Noble and Borders, it announced that it has terminated its relationship with Amazon in North America and in the U.K.
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Philly Bookstore to Open Next Week
After the closing of two Borders stores and a Barnes & Noble, the Main Line is getting a new general store in time for the U.S. Open.
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The Weekly Scorecard: Tracking Unit Print Sales for Week Ending May 12, 2013
PW's weekly look at print book sales powered by Nielsen Bookscan.
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Losses Lead to Restructuring at Hastings
Hastings Entertainment reported a revenue decline of 5% in the first quarter ended April 30 and a net loss of $2.2 million compared to net income of $833,000 in last year’s first quarter.
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Trade Books a Winner in 2012
Total book industry sales fell to $27.12 billion in 2012, down by just under 1% from the prior year.
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HMH Extends Retail Terms
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has extended its retail payment terms (exclusive of Distribution Centers) from net 30 days from date of invoice to net 90 days from date of invoice. The new terms begin June 1.
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This Week's Bestsellers: May 20, 2013
Commentary and analysis on this week's PW Bestsellers Lists.
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Astoria Bookshop to Open in August
After a long search for the right space for a general bookstore in the Astoria section of Queens, N.Y., Connie Rourke and Lexi Beach signed a lease.
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Community Bookstore to Open (Mostly) Used Bookstore
For the third time in less than a year a Brooklyn bookstore is expanding, this time from Park Slope to nearby Windsor Terrace, which had been the home of Babbo's Books.
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GLIBA Announces Annual Award
The Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association will present the Great Lakes, Great Reads award annually at the Heartland Fall Forum to its members's single favorite frontlist title.
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Children's Bookselling: An Expansion and an Addition on the East Coast
While the number of children's-only bookstores may be dwindling, on the East Coast the ranks are growing with the addition of Edgewater Books near Annapolis, Md., and the expansion of Park Street Books & Toys in Medfield, Mass.
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Obituary: Milane Christiansen, 70
Milane Christiansen, who founded and ran the Book Works in Del Mar, Calif. for 30 years,died April 21 from complications of ALS.

