Yet this makes it hard even for companies with healthy order books to service their debts or to finance their trade.
The directive allows for reduced VAT in several areas including water, food, audio books, restaurant service, gardening, nappies and energy itself - but not energy-saving products.
You gave us the aha moment, which has taken a life of its own, spawning self-help books, public service announcements and a slew of sitcom punch lines.
Amazon is reportedly in talks to launch a Netflix-style service for books.
Some lawmakers already fret that consulting and tax advisory (when the Big Four are explicitly helping companies make money) can be in conflict with auditing (where the firms should take a wary, outside view of the books, in the service of investors not management).
The result: The comic has consistently rested in the top 5 best-selling books on Amazon under Customer Service and Retail.
Juniper Books' collection-development service attracts people who want a library but haven't had the time or inclination to amass a collection of books.
Garden centers, nurseries, local native plant societies, county extension service offices, books and the Internet can all be great resources for researching the best, most water-efficient plants.
In the US, copyright holders get 63% of the price of each book printed to order from Google Books, with the Internet service retaining the remaining 37%.
Companies such as Plaxo, which help to synchronise address books, and Google itself, which has a primitive address book in its web-mail service, plan to turn these books into fully fledged social graphs that can do useful and productive things, perhaps including new variants of mini-feeds.
Whispersync for Voice is a new service that syncs audio books with e-books.
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The Galapagos e-bookstore service sells e-books, movies, games and music.
High uncertainty in credit markets has been caused by the Greek crisis, worries about the Italian and Spanish economies, and concerns about the effects of the debt agreement in the US. This is making it more difficult for smaller manufacturers with weaker balance sheets to acquire cost effective working capital to service orders on their books.
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Its new service, called eS-Books (the S is for shopping), will offer 1.4 million titles for sale over the Web.
Last week, Penguin announced a pilot program to allow public libraries in New York City and Brooklyn to lend out its e-books via 3M's Cloud Drive service.
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Google says users will be able to buy digital copies of books they discover through its book-search service.
My understanding is that there is now some training of the service members in terms of how to deal with this kind of situation -- disposal of the Koran, respect for holy books, things like that -- for service members serving in Afghanistan.
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Kobo, which makes digital reading devices and operates an e-reading service that stocks 2.5 million books and has more than eight million users, has recently started looking at how readers as a whole engage with particular books and genres.
Also, like the big mortgage issuers on the mainland, he has a habit of booking paper gains on the servicing portfolio: As soon as a loan is closed, he books as income the value of the right to service it.
The council said it would replace the mobile library by expanding its home delivery service and had recruited 20 volunteers to deliver books.
Mayor Ernie Currier of Enid, Oklahoma which was the first community to officially join the Defense Department's "America Supports You" program, and has recruited over 20, 000 Enid residents to join the effort in a number of ways, including sending letters, books, magazines, DVDs and other items to the service members overseas.
The books have recently changed over from an analogue to a digital service, said Ms Jackson.
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They see this as a service to children who may not otherwise see many books.
She made it available on Kindles and iPhones, using an Amazon service which allows writers to turn their manuscripts into digital books.
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Compiling and maintaining a list of journalists interested in getting reviews copies, and then picking which books to send to which journalists would be an easy and valuable service for self-published authors.
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In addition, Microsoft showed an update to Bing Maps that enables indoor search, such as within shopping malls, and a Google Goggles-like service called Bing Vision that lets users scan products like books to find quick links to product reviews, prices and vendors.
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The RIC is a multimedia colossus that involves books, radio, movies, TV, newspapers, and dog care service providers.
Hiya is designed to go beyond typical address books, however, by making physical addresses an integral part of the service.
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When analysts at the Congressional Research Service tried to count the number of separate offences on the books, they were forced to give up, exhausted.
Certainly, it seems that the company's selection is nothing to sneeze at -- electronic access to over 7, 000 titles from 12 publishers -- so if you're already using the service, additional on-the-go access to the books (as well as the handy search, notes, and bookmarks) might prove quite worthwhile.
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