Mail-order music clubs such as Columbia House and BMG Music Service have taken to the Web as well.
Before that, he served as CEO of Columbia House, where he also led a leveraged buyout of the company by the private-equity firm the Blackstone Group .
Amazon's name recognition in part reflects the site's popularity -- it has more than 1.5 million customers, making it the Web's busiest retail location, according to Media Metrix (music retailer Columbia House Online was second).
To get it to work you actually have to sign up for one of their sponsors' offers (like the Columbia House DVD club, the GM credit card, AOL for Broadband, etc.) and also get five other people to also take them up on one of their offers.
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Direct Brands Inc. is the largest direct-to-consumer club network for books, DVDs and recorded music in the U.S. The company is home to such market-leading book, DVD and music club brands as Book-of-the-Month Club, Doubleday Book Club and Columbia House, among its 24 multi-platform businesses, as well as several other special interest and lifestyle book clubs.
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In a speech at New York's Columbia University, White House National Security Adviser Samuel Berger said the issue is critical for national security as well as for economic reasons.
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By 1975 he was running CBS Records, whose three main house labels were Columbia, CBS and Epic.
This CD, best considered a vital companion to Piano Starts Here and other well-known titles, offers a clue: God Is in the House was recorded in 1940 and '41 by Jerry Newman, a student at Columbia University who was obsessed with Tatum and would follow him around, recording whatever he could.
Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wisconsin, said that instead of the contempt citations, the committee should direct the House clerk to file a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, exclusively on the executive privilege claim.
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The Colombian president was also welcomed here with a breakfast at the White House and a big endorsement from President Bush, who urged lawmakers to approve a free trade agreement with Columbia.
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