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Small Business Saturday Helps Kick Off Holiday Shopping Season
Many locally owned businesses hope Black Friday shoppers will get their second wind for Small Business Saturday. It is right between Black Friday and Cyber Monday and a chance for shoppers to support local business. "Small Business Saturday is a...
Tags: Sales, Black Friday (shopping), American Express Company, Holidays, Cyber Monday
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You know bookstores are still around, right?
Last Sunday morning I arrived at Seminary Co-op Bookstore in Hyde Park a couple of hours before it opened. The Co-op, founded by 17 University of Chicago students in 1961 and beloved by Hyde Park, had spent its 51 years in the cloistered, claustrophobic,...
Tags: Lincoln Square (Chicago, Illinois), Seminaries, Colleges and Universities, Jesse Jackson, Book
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Connecticut Gets Millions In Uncollected Tax
The Hartford CourantA U.S. Supreme Court non-decision this week will mean more than $10 million for Connecticut's coffers right away, and beyond that could embolden the state to go after a class of taxes that has been fuzzy but is growing clearer. The issue is how and...Tags: Politics, Personal Income, Colebrook, Taxation, Services and Shopping
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In the Kindle era, a bookstore hangs on
A long time ago, some poor writer took on the task of novelizing the screenplay of the Burt Reynolds-Dyan Cannon private eye movie "Shamus," filmed in a Hollywood age when leading men had chest hair and big mustaches instead of sallow vampire skin and...
Tags: Heroism, Nazareth, Dyan Cannon, Small Businesses, Burt Reynolds
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Electronic textbooks come to Indiana University, but not all students are buying
With technology becoming ever-present in our lives, that same technology is starting to change how college students interact with their textbooks. Indiana University has been piloting a program for the past few years that puts some students in classes...
Tags: Science and Technology, Teaching and Learning, Colleges and Universities, Book, Education
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Echoes From The Past
The first black-and-white Zenith television set arrived at our Berlin area farm home in 1952 during my preschool years. In the early 1950s we were fortunate if we had two or three stations to choose from and along with Leave it to Beaver, Howdy...
Tags: Dale Evans, Roy Rogers, Entertainment, Services and Shopping, North Fork
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In Greece, books beat rocks
ATHENS, Greece — It is easy to throw a rock, and there have been plenty thrown here lately, a common ritual, almost not newsworthy, with the anarchists and hooligans smashing big pieces of marble and throwing the chunks at police, at the government,...Tags: Chicago Tribune Columnists, Athens (Greece), John Kass, Services and Shopping, Books and Magazines
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A holiday for sluttiness
Holidays are for children and conservatives. And the one holiday that is still just for kids -- free of campaigns to replace Santa with creches, painted eggs with crucifixes, fireworks with flag lapel pins -- has been ruined by the rest of the adults....Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, People, Social Issues, Lindsay Lohan, Holidays
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'Florida's Greatest Rainy-Day Attraction!' -- St. Pete's Haslam's Book Store, an old-school heaven for readers
There are two ways to buy books:
For efficiency, there's always the click of a mouse on Amazon: convenient as an ATM transaction and almost as charming.
For the more romantic among us, however, nothing compares with perusing the stacks at a fine...Tags: Candy, Flowers and Gifts, Busch Gardens Orlando, Services and Shopping, Inventories, Family
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How e-books have started to eliminate my 'TBR' pile
Change of SubjectOur "Biblioracle" John Warner writes: I own 78 books that I have yet to read. In a typical year, I read between 60 and 70 books, so we're looking at a good 13-month backlog if I were to not buy...... -
Read Green Books folding
Retail WatchSecond-hand bookstore chain Read Green Books is closing all locations this week, including stores in South Mall and Palmer Park Mall, according to its Facebook page. Palmer Park and South Mall stores will host its last day of sales on Saturday,... -
The view from there: Wrap-ups of Book Expo America
Jacket CopyA roundup, from afar, of roundups of publishing's big annual conference, Book Expo America....
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