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ANNOUNCEMENTS

Back-to-School Season Checklist
Are you ready for the biggest sales season of the year? From math textbooks to literary classics, students need books. Sales have already started to climb, and are expected to peak in late August/early September. Now is the time to start preparing your account and stock if you want to catch the rush! Here are some tips and suggestions to help you have your most successful back to school season yet.

· Keep your inventory up to date.
· Consider decreasing your priority shipping speed.
· Enter an ISBN with each book and be sure to include condition – especially “new” or “used.”
· Answer student inquiries quickly! [More Tips]

International Edition Policies
International Editions are permitted for sale on Abebooks.com as long as they follow the rules outlined in our Bookseller Policies. [Read the Policies]

Changes to Amazon.com Agreement
We're in the process of introducing multiple Abebooks accounts on Amazon.com to speed up the transfer of data, and we're also working to open our global Amazon programs to every seller in every country, expanding your customer base even further. [Read More]

BNBQ Closure
After 7 years, the BNBQ program is closing. [Read More]

Selling Your Spanish Books
Our data shows that well over 50% of the demand for Spanish-language books through our web sites originates in the US, but most of the supply does not. If you have Spanish titles currently listed on our site or plan to upload Spanish titles, be sure to include the keyword "espanol". If you have any further questions or need more information, we encourage you to contact our Spanish Services Coordinator.

Abebooks Free Shipping Promotion

More than 60 booksellers are now participating in our upcoming free shipping promotion, launching in July. Interested? Just set your US Standard shipping and extra item rates to 0 (edit your shipping matrix now) to be included. If you have any questions about this promotion, or are interested in setting up a second free shipping account, please feel free to contact our Customer Support department.

MARKETING & EVENTS

Canadian Booksellers: Random Acts of Poetry is Back!
The second annual Random Acts of Poetry week will feature over 30 poets from Canada, the UK and Ireland, and will run October 3 – 9, 2005. Help support poetry! You, our booksellers, can participate in this year’s campaign by putting up posters in your store or sponsoring a Random Acts poet in your community. Watch for upcoming announcements and information on how to get involved.

Students Get Smart with Abebooks.com
Abebooks.com has teamed up with Microsoft OneNote, Sony Classical, and AllPosters.com to help students save money this back-to-school season. Abebooks street teams will be on campuses across the US distributing coupon books filled with special deals and prizes from our campaign partners, and promoting Abebooks as THE place for students to find great prices on new and used textbooks. Booksellers - order your coupon books for inclusion in your textbook packages now. [Place Your Order]

Abebooks Summer Reading Campaign in Full Swing
We are pleased to announce the launch of our new “Because you read” ad campaign celebrating summer reading. Relax with a book at the cottage or on the beach. The advertising campaign highlights our new summer reading creatives and is now running through August in major publications such as The New Yorker, Harper's, The Guardian, and The Literary Review of Canada.

Order your FREE summer reading bookmarks and posters to put up in your store. Be sure to include a bookmark in each Abebooks order you ship out. Quantities are limited!

Home Page News: Author Interviews
You may have noticed our author interviews and profiles on the Abebooks.com homepage recently. So far this year, we’ve featured eight writers – ranging from Malcolm Gladwell to Jared Diamond – and we intend to profile many more in the next six months. Check out our Authors’ Corner section to read the recent author interviews.

Upcoming Homepage Features
Get your inventory ready and ensure your prices are competitive for our upcoming homepage features & PR:

• Rare Books: Mark Twain
• Rare Books: Erotica
• Boxing
• Chess

If you have items you would like included in any of these features, please submit them to features@abebooks.com. (Items must be listed on Abebooks. We cannot guarantee inclusion.)

Next Book Club Pick
Our next Avid Reader Book Club pick will be Khaled Hosseini's acclaimed novel The Kite Runner. Be sure to upload your copies of the book, and ensure your prices are competitive!

I just wanted to pass along the pleasant experience I had with purchasing a book from The Warm Springs Book Company through abebooks. The service, communications, delivery time, condition of the book (better than described), and packaging were all world class. I would like to express my sincerest thanks to Herb with The Warm Springs Book Company for excellent customer service.

- Philip

Bookseller Poll
Take our poll & enter to win the boardgame "Booktastic"!

Do you stock:

• New Only
• Used Only
• A Combination?

Changes to the Abebooks Community Forums
The Abebooks Community Forums are intended to be helpful, informative and educational for all of our book lovers. When forum members follow the Policy and treat all other members with courtesy and respect, the Forums are a positive experience for everyone. We will be making updates to the Forums over the next few weeks to encourage our booksellers to make connections with each other in our Forum community. [Read More]

Advisory Group
Thank you to all booksellers who signed up to be a part of our new Advisory Group. The response has been overwhelming (over 800 members!). Members will be hearing from us within the next few days with your first assignment. Still want to sign up? [Join Now]

Calling All Harrys
Do you have a Harry Potter in your town? Your butcher, your baker, your candlestick-maker? Help us spread the word and generate press and traffic for your books. [Learn More]

Roundtable
Join us for the next Roundtable on July 7th from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. PDT. The forums will be open for questions on July 6th from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm PDT.

Reduce Your Amazon A-Z Claims - Add Tracking Information!
Amazon guarantees the purchase of items ordered through their web sites for return reasons "Item did not arrive" and "Item not as described." If a buyer initiates an A to Z claim for an item that did not arrive, they will be refunded unless the bookseller has previously provided tracking information online for this order. Find instructions on how to add tracking information onto our Web site and read more about A to Z Claims.

Top 10 Bestsellers
(Abebooks, Jun 19 - 25)

1. The Da Vinci Code
   Dan Brown
2. Publication Manual of the APA
   American Psychology Assn.
3. Daughter of the Stars
   Phyllis A. Whitney
4. Microbiology
   Lansing Prescott
5. The Tipping Point
   Malcolm Gladwell
6. Black's Law Dictionary
   Henry Campbell Black
7. In the Company of Cheerful Ladies
   Alexander McCall Smith
8. Practical Research & Design
   Paul D Leedy
9. Wong's Essen of Pediatric Nursing
   Hockenberry
10. Content Area Reading
    Richard T Vacca