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RPI Hits Three Million Milestone for Printed Photo Books (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:00:00 GMT
SEATTLE----RPI , a leader in automated, mass-customized manufacturing and fulfillment for the consumer print-on-demand market, today announced that it has set an industry record through the production of more than 1.3 million photo books in 2008.
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Readers can swap books online yes, for free (The Bulletin)
Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:13:54 GMT
We’ll answer your questions and share your tips. Send them to shopper@bendbulletin. com.Q: I recently joined a book club and one of the members turned me on to PaperBackSwap. com. This is a free way to obtain books, as well as get rid of your old ones. I’m sure other services like these exist, but I haven’t researched it. Any suggestions?
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Barnes & Nobles 2008 Holiday Book Drive Collects More Books Than Ever Before (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:30:00 GMT
NEW YORK----Barnes & Noble, Inc. , the world’s largest bookseller, announced today that it collected and donated more than 1.2 million books during its 2008 Holiday Book Drive. With the help of enthusiastic booksellers and generous customer donations, Barnes & Noble was able to collect more books to help needy children in communities across the country than ever before.
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Audit: Carlisle Township books off by $1.4 million (The Elyria Chronicle-Telegram)
Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:39:49 GMT
CARLISLE TWP. — Between 2006 and 2007, the township’s books were a disaster, according to an audit released Tuesday by state Auditor Mary Taylor. The problems were so bad, the auditors concluded, that at the end of 2007, the township overstated how much money it had by nearly $1.4 million. At the end of [...]
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Eat better in 2009 with help from a batch of diet books reviewed by our readers. (Inside Bay Area)
Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:50:20 GMT
Find inspiration and encouragement for better health in 2009 from reader-reviewed diet books.
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Indigo Books & Music to launch e-book service for smartphones (InternetRetailer.com)
Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:49:20 GMT
The demand for e-books has been growing, as evidenced, for example, by Amazon.com’s much-vaunted Kindle e-book reader selling out twice.
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Books: "The Magician’s Book" (The New Yorker)
Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:15:15 GMT
In this powerful meditation on “the schism between childhood and adult reading,” Miller recounts her tumultuous relationship with the favorite books of her youth, C. S. Lewis’s “Chronicles of Narnia.” Filled from an early age with a distrust of the Catholic faith in which she was raised, Miller didn’t notice . . .
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Authors sign petition to block importation of cheap books (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:29:11 GMT
More than 700 authors have signed a letter calling for the Federal Government to continue blocking the importation of cheap books.
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Killingly students help decide fate of new books (The Norwich Bulletin)
Tue, 20 Jan 2009 06:44:41 GMT
The owner of Wonderland Books in Putnam was getting cartons and cartons of advance-solicited books from publishers — too many for her to review on her own. So she donated 75 books to the Killingly Intermediate School library, where students have the opportunity to read and review them for the publishers.
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Books amnesty at Royal Oldham (Oldham Chronicle)
Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:10:21 GMT
Saddleworth Round Table has called for an amnesty to allow children to return books to the Royal Oldham Hospital’s accident-and-emergency department. Kind-hearted Round Table members donated £1,500 to provide a steady supply of books for young patients waiting for treatment.
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