Follett buys more textbooks from publishers than anyone else in the world.

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For our whole history Follett has been in the used book business.

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Follett representative Cliff Ewert maintains VarsityBooks.com personnel didn't have the proper permission from the school to sell on campus and were asked to leave.

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Best-selling author of Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett, was in eighth place, while Janet Evanovich, the writer behind the Stephanie Plum novels, was at number nine.

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In 1990, Sam Walton tapped on the innovation and experience of William Follett to design, build and implement its first quick response time system to manage its video inventory.

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But they use their marketing budgets to sell not to Follett or any other campus bookstore but to the faculty, who typically make the decision on what course material are used in their classes.

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William Follett and his business partner, Maria Haggerty, have gone on to build Dotcom Distribution, a privately held and highly successful third party fulfillment company in the North Eastern corridor of the United States.

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When The Times of London recently asked its readers to vote for the greatest novels of the last 60 years, Follett's The Pillars of the Earth came in at No. 2 (just behind To Kill a Mockingbird).

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Mark Follett, head of the firm's high-grade debt capital markets desk for Asia excluding Japan, says that is because many Chinese companies plan to tap the bond market and diversify their funding from a heavy reliance on bank loans.

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