But with the rise first of big-box book sellers such as Barnes and Noble, the increasing dominance of Wal-Mart and Target as book sellers and the omnipresence of Amazon, this advantage has evaporated.
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Box and book together weigh as much as a pair of fur seal pups: 12.5 kilograms.
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Then they discovered the book in a sealed box and began hailing her for the keenness of her third eye.
Connected to a TV and stereo, the book-size HP box draws entertainment right out of the computer and lets you manage it from onscreen menus.
Charing Cross Theatre said it was not reasonable to require them to include the commission fee in ticket prices because the website also gave theatre-goers the option to book in person at the box office, where no commission was payable.
Sales weakness in the retail sector, which the Federal Reserve pointed out in its latest Beige Book, extended beyond major big box stores.
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If you have the software and are about to buy a book from Amazon, say, a box will pop up to tell you that you could get it cheaper elsewhere.
Normally, Blume keeps a box of tissues on the table at book signings, she said, keenly aware of her effect on fans.
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Encrypted data, held in a storage box about the size of a text book, will be retrieved about every four to six months.
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The Friends: Complete Series Blu-ray box set is presented in highly collectible new packaging consisting of a lenticular box cover, a hard-cover book that holds 21 Blu-ray discs, plus a 32-page episode guide.
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Less experienced hikers can book a seven-day guided hike with the Cardboard Box travel shop in Windhoek.
The book is especially obtuse when Koch describes his system for grading employees, a four-box "virtue and talents matrix" that balances "values and beliefs" against the skills needed to run the business.
You can't criticise a book without opening the cover any more than you can criticise a TV programme without switching on the box.
Closer to the American mainstream are the box office film hit (which no one had predicted) The Passion of the Christ and the bestseller book by Rick Warren, The Purpose-Driven Life, which has sold more than 15 million copies.
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