EContent - Vol. 29 Nbr. 3, April 2006
[Nick Bogarty] also notes that the fact that the screen does not have to constantly refresh has the added advantage of dramatically improving battery life. In fact, Sony claims that the Reader can sustain up to 7,500 continuous page turns on a single charge. What's more, measuring 6.9''x4.9''x5'', with 6'' display, and weighing approximately 9 oz., the device feels similar to a paperback book.
For years, the ebook industry has been trying to bring ebooks into the mainstream, but hardware issu...
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Business Credit - Vol. 108 Nbr. 9, October 2006
Starting a new retail company is a risky business, and only a handful of ventures ever make it to the top. These days with the increasing popularity of doing virtually everything on the Web -- including shopping -- the Internet has created an interesting twist. Instead of struggling to build up a physical store and then offering an online version further down the road, companies can start online, build up their business and then consider the ROI of opening a brick-and-mortar store much later....
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NJBIZ - December 10, 2007
[Mike Aaron] got the idea for selling green wares during a 2004 family trip to Ireland. That country began taxing plastic bags in 2002 and sharply reduced their use as shoppers switched to bringing their own reusable bags to stores. "It was a wake-up call," says Aaron. "The whole country decided that plastic grocery b ags aren't good for the environment."
WITH CONCERN heating up about global warming and other environmental woes, former marketing executive Mike Aaron aims to build a business a...
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Fairfield County Business Journal - March 31, 2008
ClothesPal, a laundry service in Fairfield has added a dot-com to its name and utilized the Internet to take their storefront laundromat to a Web-based pick-up and deliver laundry service.
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Seven Days - February 13, 2008
[Mark Ciufo], 48, is unusual among used-book sellers in that he acquires all his inventory locally, rather than from publishers looking to unload their overstock. He says he's handed out more than half a million dollars to individual sellers over the years. But, while Vermonters provided the books, about half the store's income came from "the Internet and tourists," Ciufo says. Passersby didn't always understand his pricing, he explains, which reflected the volumes' online market value. Colle...
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La Crosse Tribune - July 11, 2008
With a softer economy, customers are looking to maximize buying power at the grocery store, and coupon values from manufacturers have increased by at least 10 cents since 2007, said Brandon Scholz, president and CEO of the Wisconsin Grocers Association. Real coupons require special software to print proper barcodes and limit the number of prints of each coupon. * Print coupons only from the brand Web site for the products you are interested in, or well-known savings sites like Coupons.com or...
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Westchester County Business Journal - October 26, 2009
"Westchester is one of the most affluent communities in American and we have many existing customers in the area from our wholesale accounts and our demographic studies," Foss said of the company's decision to expand into the county.
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Insurance Brokers' Monthly - Vol. 55 Nbr. 4, April 2005
The use of the internet by insurance providers - particularly brokers - has gone through its own mini revolution, and columnist Andrew Newman caught up with Alastair Murray, managing director of The Bureau to find out more. He says that while e-commerce levels continue to rise, websites continue to be used more often, and by more people, to gather information, advice, research, check prices and confirm availability. Murray says that the appeal of email marketing for its practitioners is its l...
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Library Administrator's Digest - Vol. 40 Nbr. 1, January 2005
The Farmington Friends of the Library (Farmington MI Community Library) today announced the opening of the new FriendsStore.com, an electronic gift shop plus fund-raiser for the Farmington Community Library. Details of the online store are presented.
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