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My father was out fire watching and I well remember my mother and I making a dive for the Anderson shelter, mother clutching the large brown handbag containing birth certificates, insurance policies, bank books, identity cards etc - not forgetting our precious ration books.
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Those products include comic books, T-shirts, scrapbooks, trading cards, games, lunch boxes, dolls, toy cars, magnets, greeting cards and DVDs where their images appear on the box covers.
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Klingel is trying to land younger subscribers by stuffing subscription cards in phone books, catalogs and small-town Sunday newspapers.
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The device has enough internal memory to hold more than 1, 000 standard e-books, says Sony, and it has expansion slots for memory cards.
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Declutterers can send usable books, DVDs, video games and music to third-party merchants in exchange for gift cards through the Amazon Trade-In Program.
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When licensing images for books, posters or trading cards, she insists on large, nonrefundable advances against royalties--a demand few illustrators can get away with, says Russell Cochran of Gemstone Publishing, who has dealt with the artist for 30 years.
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And he said that Apple, through its iTunes and Apple stores, had access to a hundred and twenty-five million credit cards, which would make it easy for consumers to buy books on impulse.
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Furthermore over half of e-book users who also hold library cards told Pew that they prefer to buy -- not borrow -- their e-books.
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For the first time in Reader's Digest history, subscription cards for the venerable magazine are fluttering like confetti from more than 150 million telephone books, small-town newspapers and popular catalogs.
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Now will also show you cards for upcoming books, albums and TV shows based on what Google thinks you'll like -- which could either be quite helpful or exasperating depending on how well it knows you accuracy.
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