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WebsiteMagazine.com’s story, ‘The Web’s Most Popular Coupon Sites’ ranks the five coupon sites with the most monthly Website traffic.   The most popular site issues $300 million worth of coupons in 2009!   Find out what these sites are - http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/posts/pages/the-web-s-most-popular-coupon-sites.aspx

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Amazon has expanded their Bestseller page to include  bestseller archives back to 1999.  The archives are also available on other categories such as:

Kindle Books
MP3 Songs
Movies & TV
Music
Video
and Video on Demand

The following Bestseller Lists are also available:

Hot New Releases
Movers & Shakers
Most Gifted
Most Wished For

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The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press released a survey of opinion on the 2000-2009 decade.   The report was presented under the title:  ‘Current Decade Rates as Worst in 50 Years: Internet. Cell Phones Are Changes for the Better’. http://people-press.org/report/573/#prc-jumpDecember%2021,%202009
Princeton Survey Research Associates International conducted telephone interviews for survey purposes.   The [...]

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The New York Times had an interesting essay called, ‘Steal These Books’.  To quote:
‘With the recession, shoplifting is on the rise, according to booksellers. At BookPeople in Austin, Tex., the rate of theft has increased to approximately one book per hour.’
You won’t believe what the most frequently stolen book is! 
Read on….http://www.nytimes.com

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Don’t do as I did! I just spent a half hour googling to find the best solution for copying the music to a new computer when your old one dies! However, you do want to be careful what you download. The solution? ‘Pod to PC’! Works like a charm! Push [...]

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I just spent a bunch of time dealing with what could be a scam involving Reader’s Choice (also known as Reader’s Source and Magazine Services of America). It seems they attempted to call my teenage son for a week disguising phone numbers and names. When they finally got him on the phone it seems they [...]

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Shelf-Awareness.com intruduced me to an article in the N.Y. Times, “Target Can Make Sleepy Titles Into Best Sellers“. The post on Shelf-Awareness.com said, “In the last few years, Target has become “a tastemaker for books” through its book club and the Bookmarked Breakout program, both started in 2005, the New York Times wrote. The programs [...]

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The folks at ZDNet.com do their part in introducing the new Kindle DX.  Read on…http://blogs.zdnet.com

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