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| | Bookselling This Week: Ten Years at the International Congress of Young Booksellers |
 | | In 1993, I was blessed with the opportunity to attend the International Congress of Young Booksellers (ICYB) congress, all expenses paid by the American Booksellers Association, in Rust, Austria. |
 | | Over these past 10 years, and 10 congresses, Ive gotten an intimate view of the book trade in Austria, the Netherlands, Germany, England, Spain, Norway, Belgium, and France, as well as having the honor of hosting, with the support of ABA, the only ICYB ever to take place in the United States. |
 | | You may wonder what ICYB is. Officially it is a subdivision of the International Booksellers Federation (IBF), which was formed in the early 1950s as a response to a UNESCO call for initiatives to encourage the free international exchange of ideas through books. |
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