Order books are stronger than analysts had expected, and both companies boosted their earnings projections recently.
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Petitioner asks whether its sales of e-books are subject to sales and use tax.
Increasingly these books are being consumed on full featured Apple, Amazon and Android tablets.
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Many of the advantages of e-books are similar to those in other Web businesses.
Instructable books are largely accessed via the web site, where they can be read online.
Rob Howell's sets of huge Scrabble tiles, alphabet blocks and books are clever and thrilling.
Rural schools -- where pencils, desks and books are luxuries -- are hardest hit.
Some of his books are Midaq Alley, The Cairo Trilogy, and The Beginning and the End.
These books are at the center of the conflict between Google and the publishers.
Microsoft is building robotics software for NXT, and new books are in the works.
The good news for traditional book lovers is that print books are not going away completely.
Some books are remaindered the week after publication based on slow early sales reports.
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His most euphoric books are those on two of its great art capitals, Barcelona and Rome.
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The books are interesting also for what they reveal, often unwittingly, about modern mountaineering.
Meanwhile, the librarians helping Google scan truckloads of books are undaunted by the latest concerns.
And the truth is that most actual mythologies and epics and sacred books are dull.
The books are very distinctive, attractively printed in a compact, squarish format on bright, white paper.
Free Kindle books are excluded and if included would make the number even higher.
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The plots for Hamilton's books are inspired by some of her favorite stories as a reporter.
Russia has also declined Iran's requests for fancier anti-aircraft missiles, saying its order books are full.
But for many consumers, slates will be held the way books are, in the hands.
"So many books are disposable from the start, not designed to become significant objects, " said Mr. Taschen.
Certain books are famous--or notorious--for changing people's lives: the Bible, Chicken Soup for the Soul, Atlas Shrugged.
Books are hounded from the shelves, replaced by row upon row of silver discs in plastic cases.
Print books are also the most popular choice when people want to borrow or lend a book.
If the laws on our books are insufficient to prevent such a spill, the laws must change.
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It is vital, she adds, that with more to come, readers of the books are not alienated.
Both books are readable, the Geffen book especially, because his life is the archetypal American dream story.
Although the losses that banks face in their loan books are ugly, they should be more predictable.
But saying her books are just about women and marriage is a very "unsophisticated reading" of her novels, says Williams.
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