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Half has also done an end-run around the fraud issues eBay has never been able to fully shake. The company bills the buyer and pays the seller, which means there's no danger that a seller will have to grapple with a bounced check. What's more, Half offers a buyer-protection guarantee on all sales. "You might be buying it from Bob in Des Moines, but you're also buying it from Half," says Kopelman...
Based in suburban Philadelphia, the site launched last January with the more euphonic name Half.com (Derived from the rule, since abandoned, that an item could cost no more than half its list price.) The drill is simple. Half www.half.com lets sellers list used books, CDs, videos and computer games for nothing. If they're bought, Half takes 15% of the price. To list an item, a seller just types in its ISBN or UPC. With a book's ISBN, Half can create a listing with the title, author, a picture of the book jacket and blurbs. UPCs enable a similar...
...festival. She knows which authors to invite and is familiar with their work. She selects and organizes the staff of professionals and volunteers. More than that, she has founded and maintained the festival without letting it become political in any way. Stephen Harrigan, author of the recent best seller The Gates of the Alamo, who has worked on the festival, says that in working with her "you never felt she was doing it for any reason but to raise the money for libraries and to raise awareness of books and reading...
...magical series. As if to confirm that there is a huge gulf between ages 11 and 14, a major part of the the latter demographic fell under the spell of a vastly different celebrity--a real one, stage name Eminem. Even as the latest Harry novel climbed best-seller lists, Eminem's new CD, The Marshall Mathers LP (that being the artist's real name), was lording over the pop charts. The disc, loaded with violent and misogynistic imagery, proved irresistible to millions of teenage boys. While some puritanical teachers and parents tried to demonize Harry--he is a wizard...
...setting attendance records at Radio City Music Hall; every few hours, 6,000 more parents and children would form a vast line outside the "showplace of the nation." More than 150 million readers were following the daily and Sunday "Peanuts" strips, while in bookstores "Peanuts" collections swamped the best-seller lists, eventually selling more than 300 million copies in 26 languages...