The big publishers sent sales representatives to forge personal relationships with small-time book buyers and encouraged them to push their new titles to whoever walked into their stores.
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The author of the blockbuster time management book series -- which a dvocates personal outsourcing as part of his formula for earning more in less time -- said subterfuge and allowing someone unauthorized access to the company computers is not the way forward.
But when is actually the best time to travel and when is the best time to book flights?
Each time a book is read or reread, a child gains something new.
And instead of asking drivers to pay commission, users will incur a small fee every time they book a cab.
In this environment it is time to book profits and raise cash.
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With these points in mind, now is the ideal time to book an affordable travel package without compromising the quality of the experience.
During the lifetime of Project Gutenberg alone, the average time a book stayed in copyright in America rose from 30 to almost 100 years.
Mr Daugherty's biography is a eulogy for a time in book publishing when editors rolled up their sleeves and everyone aimed to create literature.
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The extensive coverage of Angelo Mozilo and Countrywide is especially poignant since his future still hung in the balance at the time the book went to press.
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The ideal time to book domestic travel last year was 21 to 35 days before departure and within three months before departure for international travel, according to analysis from Kayak.
The tensions in Libya and other countries in the Islamic World have supported the ongoing basic materials sector rally, but my analysis suggests that its time to book some profits here.
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Heaney's triumph comes four years after he scooped the same prize for The Spirit Level, and marks the fourth successive time the Book of the Year title has been awarded to poetry.
Several years ago, my very good friend and fellow Upstate New York resident, Curt Smith, wrote a Time Life book commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Baseball Hall of Fame in nearby Cooperstown.
What happened was, so Goblet of Fire, I was really in quite a state by the time that book was finished, and I mean at that point I really did feel a lot of things came together with Goblet of Fire.
That means the manuscript can be studied layer by layer, enabling the researchers to isolate the remains of the mathematical text from the prayers, the mould that has accumulated over the centuries and some mysterious paintings that were added the last time the book disappeared, after the first world war.
Lord of the Rings is currently packing them in and last week Philip Pullman author of a trilogy of children's books was awarded one of the world's top literary prizes the Whitbread Book of the Year, the first time that a book aimed at children has carried off this particular award, The Amber Spy Glass, part three of the trilogy.
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It seemed inconceivable at that time that the print book business with its half-millennium history would become worthless in just a few years time, so the predictions by industry leaders were that the venerable print book business would coexist happily with the augmentation of e-books that would allow people to travel easily with their favorite book.
You spend more time on the book making, Tweeting, CNBC, Forbes article writing, celebrity aspect.
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Artists lined up to book time on the 20-by-24-inch cameras it built in New York and San Francisco.
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At a time when the book review section looks distressingly cadaverous at 24 pages, any ad beats no ad.
The author John Train took up these stories in Money Masters of Our Time, a book published in 2000.
Basically, I want to found the Long Range Foundation, as conceived of by Robert Heinlein in his book Time For the Stars.
If you were lucky, as a kid, there was a time when a book came in the mail with your name in it.
The spa encourages clients to book time with therapists and then a discussion is had with the therapists as to which treatments would suit.
It would mean that individual research groups could have their own telescopes, instead of having to book time on shared instruments months in advance, as they do now.
"One time, the book was about a train that wasn't sure she could get over the mountain, but she knew if she tried real hard, she could do it, " Ms. Walsh said.
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At a time when the international book bazaar is flooded with offerings from India by eager, first-time novelists on a mission to alter the impressions left by Kipling and Naipaul, Seth here makes no attempt to flaunt his Indian-ness.
When a copy sells, the book jumps to a high rank, and then gets knocked down one unit every time any lower-ranked book sells.
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