African American: Articles of Interest New Study Looks at African-American Book Buyers August 09, 2001 African-American book buyers are heavy consumers of fiction, are usually making their purchases at a chain store, and are generally eschewing national bestseller lists in favor of personal recommendations, according to a new study recently released from the Book Industry Study Group, Inc. African-American Booksellers Come Together June 14, 2001 Events for African-American booksellers at BookExpo America 2001 were packed by audiences brimming with enthusiasm, diverse points of view, and camaraderie. National Black Bookstore Week Celebrates Connections June 07, 2001 �Keeping Us Connected� is the theme of this year�s National Black Bookstore Week, June 16-23. Education the Keynote at BEA May 31, 2001 On Thursday morning, workers were still uncrating boxes and assembling exhibits, but off the trade floor attendees were already hard at work at the ABA Convention, held in conjunction with BookExpo America Wind Not Done Gone May 25, 2001 On Friday, May 25, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta overturned a lower court ruling in April that banned publication of Alice Randall's The Wind Done Gone (Houghton Mifflin). African-American Booksellers Schedule BEA Activities May 18, 2001 The African American Booksellers Conference (AABC) will begin at Book Expo America at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, May 31, and continue all day, but numerous opportunities exist for booksellers to discuss marketing and to network with other African-American and specialty retailers throughout the show. Blackboard Bookseller of the Year: Maleta McPherson April 26, 2001 Maleta McPherson chose her hometown of Fort Myers, Florida, to open Heritage Bookstore, because, she said,�I was frustrated trying to find a variety of positive books for myself and my daughters." Booksellers Commemorate Black History Month March 01, 2001 BTW surveyed booksellers across the U.S. to see how they celebrated Black History Month. Madam C.J. Walker, Building an Empire from the Ground Up March 01, 2001 In On Her Own Ground, The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker, A'Lelia Bundles tells the against-all-odds story of Madam C.J. Walker, her great-great-grandmother. Indigo Caf� and Books: �Eclectic Urban-Funk� in Brooklyn March 01, 2001 In the diverse, culturally rich neighborhood of Fort Greene in Brooklyn, New York, former software engineer Jenn Brissett has opened the area�s first bookstore caf�Indigo Caf� & Books: an independent general bookstore with an Africana emphasis. Next articles Find more articles about this topic on news.BookWeb.orgs.