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On Thursday, April 29, BookSense.com announced that bookstore sites could begin taking pre-orders for former President Bill Clinton's memoir, My Life, which will be published at the end of June by Knopf. BookSense.com joined other online retailers that had already begun pre-selling the highly anticipated book, which has not yet been assigned a price or ISBN by the publisher.

Here, BookSense.com Director Len Vlahos provides an update on the latest improvements and enhancements to BookSense.com. Greetings BookSense.com Bookseller! There is a lot of BookSense.com news in this edition of On the Move:

With one year in the books, so to speak, recently released BookSense.com Co-op Reimbursement Program figures indicate that the program has done well to help publishers increase book sales, while giving booksellers access to co-op to help offset the cost of their BookSense.com Web sites. "We're delighted at the early success of this program," BookSense.com Director Len Vlahos told BTW.

Rather than hope customers will use and/or buy from their Web sites when they can't get to the bookstore, some booksellers have decided to bring their BookSense.com Web sites to customers by creating Web kiosks in their stores. Booksellers who spoke to BTW about their kiosks have found the axiom made famous in W.P. Kinsella's Shoeless Joe on target: Build it, and they will come.

Here, BookSense.com Director Len Vlahos provides an update on the latest improvements and enhancements to BookSense.com. Greetings BookSense.com Bookseller! There's a lot of BookSense.com news in this edition of On the Move:

On Sunday and Monday, January 11 - 12, ABA's Booksellers Advisory Council (BAC) met with representatives of the ABA Board and senior staff in Miami, Florida, to offer the association guidance on a number of issues important to independent booksellers. The BAC is composed of 25 members and represents a broad cross-section of views from within the community of independent booksellers. For a complete list of BAC members, click here. Topics discussed at the two days of meetings included:

BookSense.com has announced that Houghton Mifflin will join the BookSense.com Co-op Reimbursement Program starting this January. "We're participating in the BookSense.com co-op program to support Book Sense and to be supportive of every new program it offers -- and to be one of the early birds," said Houghton Mifflin's Carla Gray. "It's a great way to get titles onto booksellers' Web sites and displayed in their stores."

Here, BookSense.com Director Len Vlahos provides an update on the latest improvements and enhancements to BookSense.com.Greetings BookSense.com Booksellers!So many improvements are being made to BookSense.com this month that it called for a second installment of my On the Move… column.

Here, BookSense.com Director Len Vlahos provides an update on the latest improvements and enhancements to BookSense.com. Greetings! There's a lot of BookSense.com news in this edition of On the Move, as we've made more improvements to your BookSense.com site: