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• Hampshire serves food center buy

  - 2008-02-27

  MECHANICSBURG, PA: The Hampshire Companies, a full-service, private real estate investment fund manager with equity in assets valued at over $1.5 billion, has announced the acquisition of a 596,000 s/f distribution/ office building located at 1225 South Market Street in Mechanicsburg, Pa. from Bookspan, the parent company of Doubleday Entertainment...

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• Today's corporate dining rooms offer healthier choices and employee-

  - 2006-11-17

  Maxine Moss, assistant director of postal and government affairs for Bookspan in Garden City, works near Sweeney's Uptown Grille, the Seventh Street Cafe and Leo's. But she rarely lunches at any of these well-known eateries; Moss is a regular at the Break Away Cafe. ...

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• Garden City-based Bookspan sells books to employees at steep

  - 2006-11-17

  Companies that provide onsite food for employees sometimes offer food for thought, too. Garden City-based Bookspan, which boasts the handsome and tasty Break Away Cafe, also sells books to employees at steep discounts, in a room just down the hall from the company gymnasium. The firm...

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• Bookspan appoints Heather Drucker as publicity director

  - 2006-02-23

  M2 BEST BOOKS-C2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Heather Drucker has been appointed to the newly created position of publicity director at Bookspan, a partnership between Bertelsmann and Time Warner and the parent company of Doubleday Entertainment. According to Publishers Weekly, Drucker will have responsibility for the execution of publicity...

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• CNBC bolsters praisery unit.(Consumer News and Business Channel Partnership)(Kevin Goldman)(Brief Article)

  - 2005-09-01

  CNBC has named former Variety and Wall Street Journal reporter Kevin Goldman communications VP, as the cable net girds for competition in the form of a Foxbranded business news channel. Goldman, former communications veep at online bookseller BookSpan, replaces Amy Zelvin,...

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• Augmentive and alternative communication.(communication aids)(Illustration)(Buyers Guide)

  - 2005-06-14

  Augmentive and Alternative Communication LEGEND: Computer-Based Electronic Display S = Static Display D = Dynamic Display Access ...

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• Santa Barbara News-Press, Calif., business buzz column.

  - 2004-06-24

  Santa Barbara News-Press, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 24--STORIES TO TELL: Shelley Bookspan and Ronald Nye have started a new company, LifeStory Productions Inc., to provide video biography services. Ms. Bookspan was previously the editor of The Public Historian,...

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• Providian Selected by Bookspan for Affinity Credit Card

  - 2004-06-21

  SAN FRANCISCO -- Providian Financial Corporation (NYSE:PVN) and Bookspan, the leader in the direct marketing of books and related entertainment products, are launching an affinity credit card for members of Bookspan's more than 30 book clubs. With the new Reader's Reward card, which rewards cardholders for frequent use of...

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• Book Club to Offer Latinos Spanish-Language Choices in Harrisburg, Pa.

  - 2004-05-26

  By Diana Fishlock, The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, Pa. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 26--Lionel Gonzalez reads novels in Spanish, poetry in Spanish, literature in Spanish. Gonzalez and other local Latinos find Spanish books online, and some travel to Philadelphia and...

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• Book publishers open arms, wallets to conservative writers

  - 2003-06-29

  NEW YORK -- The success of Ann Coulter, Michael Savage and other conservative authors has led the publishing industry to turn more to the right. The operators of the Book-of-the-Month Club have announced that they are forming a new club, as yet unnamed, devoted to works with a...

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