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National Book Tokens is a currency-backed voucher scheme, and successor to the book token programme, that is available in the UK and Ireland. They are solely owned and issued by Book Tokens Ltd (part of the Booksellers Association Group of Companies). National Book Tokens are sold and accepted for exchange in almost all UK bookshops, including ...
Book Tokens Ltd (part of the Booksellers Association Group of Companies) was established as the sole issuer of book tokens in the UK. They have now grown into one of the largest multi-retail gift cards in the UK and Ireland and were renamed "National Book Tokens" in 2000, the year the tokens were also sold online for the first time by firstbookshop.com.
World Book Day is not funded by the British Government although the Quick Reads element does receive support from ACE, DIUS and NIACE. The funding for World Book Day activities comes from the major sponsor, National Book Tokens [5] and the UK book trade (publishers and booksellers). Funding also comes from Foras na Gaeilge, An Post and Vision ...
A federal judge on Monday blocked a $2.18 billion planned merger between Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster, two of the world’s most dominant book publishers, siding with U.S. antitrust ...
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In 1932 Mr. Dunn printed his list of U.S. and foreign transportation tokens. Shortly after printing, Dr. Dunn passed the task of cataloging transportation tokens off to Ronald C. Atwood. In 1948, Mr. Atwood had his National Check and Premium List of All U.S. Transportation Tokens published by the American Numismatic Company of Los Angeles.
Again only 2p and 3p values were available. This was subsequently changed to the "National Transport Token" name used latterly and gradually larger denominations, including 5p, up to £1, became available. [2] National Transport Tokens ceased to be supplied to customers from 30 April 2018 and the scheme closed permanently on 31 October 2018.
The notes were not legal tender in general, but were satisfactory for nearly all payments to and by the federal government. National Bank Notes were retired as a currency type by the U.S. government in the 1930s, when U.S. currency was consolidated into Federal Reserve Notes , United States Notes , and silver certificates .