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Sherman's Maine Coast Book Shops (formerly Sherman's Book Store) is a book and stationery retailer operating in Maine, United States. It is the oldest bookstore in the state, having been established in 1886, [ 1 ] and is one of the ten oldest bookstores in the United States.
Bookshop.org, conceived as a response to Amazon's industry dominance, offers an online storefront with the accessibility and convenience of Amazon and, by convincing media outlets that review and advertise books to link to Bookshop.org instead through higher commissions and emphasis on its mission, intercept potential Amazon customers. [10]
The Mysterious Bookshop publishes limited editions of important works in the mystery genre, and has published various series of original works in the field. The most current of these is the store's Bibliomystery series, which features mystery novellas in which the plot involves a murder related to books or book collecting.
The Skin Books (or INK) trilogy is a series of young adult fantasy/dystopian novels written by Alice Broadway. Ink , the first book in the trilogy, was her debut novel. The publication rights were acquired by Scholastic UK for a three-book deal in early 2016.
City Lights was the inspiration of Peter D. Martin, who relocated from New York City to San Francisco in the 1940s to teach sociology.He first used City Lights, in homage to the Chaplin film, in 1952 as the title of a magazine, publishing early work by such key Bay Area writers as Philip Lamantia, Pauline Kael, Jack Spicer, Robert Duncan, and Ferlinghetti himself, as "Lawrence Ferling".
Believed to be the first coupon ever, this ticket for a free glass of Coca-Cola was first distributed in 1888 to help promote the drink. By 1913, the company had redeemed 8.5 million tickets. [6] Coca-Cola's 1888-issued "free glass of" is the earliest documented coupon. [6] [7] Coupons were mailed to potential customers and placed in magazines ...
The company registered Gambler's Book Shop as an alternate name in 1988 [5] to clarify that this was a brick and mortar which did not require a membership card, and to underscore its retail business. The company produced two quarterly magazines, Casino and Sports and Systems and Methods .