News - Bookselling: Articles of Interest About ISBN-13 April 09, 2006 Resources to help your store prepare for the new 13-digit ISBN 2007 Winter/Spring Booksellers Forum Schedule January 05, 2006 The History Channel and Book Sense Participate In JFK Week March 19, 2004 November 22, 2003 marks the 40th anniversary of the assassination of the 35th President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy. To commemorate this occasion, Book Sense is joining The History Channel in its week of JFK-themed special programming from November 16 through November 23. Vote for Your Favorite Book Sense 76 Picks of the First Five Years March 04, 2004 Barbara Kingsolver Writes to Booksellers December 21, 2001 Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver this week issued an open letter to independent booksellers. New Bookstore Takes Root in Baltimore December 20, 2001 Baltimore has a new independent bookstore--The Ivy Bookshop, owned by Darielle Linehan, has been open since November 28. Meskis Defending Our Freedom December 20, 2001 By Reggie Rivers, Denver Post Columnist It would have been far easier for Joyce Meskis, owner of the Tattered Cover Book Store, to give up the fight. It would have been cheaper and simpler to give the police access to the purchasing records of her customers. Everyone would have understood, and no one would have criticized her for giving the cops confirmation that their suspect did purchase two books on how to run a meth lab. Prospects for Sales Tax Holiday Still Unclear December 20, 2001 A nationwide sales tax holiday held in February would save consumers $5.9 billion; the estimate is somewhat lower than the $6.5 billion calculated for a proposed November-December sales tax holiday and takes into account February�s lower sales. Tattered Cover's Good Fight December 20, 2001 This editorial was originally published December 12, 2001 in the Rocky Mountain News. If you value your constitutional right to read what you please without worrying about government snooping, you owe a vote of thanks to the Tattered Cover bookstore for its spirited defense of its customers' privacy. New Drama Book Shop Location Garners Raves December 13, 2001 The Drama Book Shop, Inc.--the 78-year-old store jammed with almost every imaginable theater book, script, and libretto--has moved into spacious new quarters at 250 W. 40th Street in Manhattan. Next articles Find more articles about this topic on news.BookWeb.orgs.