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How many times have you searched the Internet for the perfect information and when you think you’ve found the site you look at it is gone.  Happens pretty frequently doesn’t it.  Of course, you can look at the ‘cached’ version and you might visit Archive.org’s “WayBackMachine”.  But daily Websites drop off never to be seen [...]

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Welcome BACK to my WordPress blog.   I messed up my blog trying to update it and I lost some postings.  I’ll try to repost my most popular ones.  Thanks for your patience.    Enjoy!
Jeff
P.S. I’ve removed the comment feature for now as I was getting lots of spam.   I will try to come up with [...]

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Bookselling This Week has some pictures of nice displays created by Austin, Texas’ bookstore, BookPeople. Check them out!

Bookselling This Week
BookPeople
Thanks to Shelf-Awareness.com for this information.

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From Shelf-Awareness.com
Sales: AAP Sales Rise 4.3% in June
Net book sales in June rose 4.3% to $720.6 million and year-to-date sales rose 7.9% to $3.571 billion, according to data compiled from 80 publishers by the Association of American Publishers.
Category winners and losers:
Audiobook rose 25.9% to $12.9 million
Children’s/YA hardcover rose 22.2% to $42.3 million
Religious books rose 19.4% [...]

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Lulu.com - “Lulu is fast, easy and free. Publish and sell easily within minutes. No set-up fees. No minimum order. Keep control of the rights. Set your own price. Each product is printed as it is ordered. No excess inventory. ”
BookSurge.com (owned by Amazon) - “BookSurge offers [...]

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