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Blackstone was founded in 1987 by Craig and Michelle Black, originally under the name Classics on Tape. The company later assumed the name Blackstone, taken from an English literary magazine. The company's location in Ashland, Oregon was influenced by the proximity of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, which Blackstone used as a pool for voice ...
Depending on the publisher, he recorded as David Case (Books on Tape), Frederick Davidson (Blackstone), Edward Raleigh, James Nelson, and Ian McKay. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] Case was a popular narrator, "Readers said, 'Give me anything by Frederick Davidson,'" recalled Lysa Williams of Blackstone Audio . [ 3 ]
In January 2014, a press release said Recorded Books had over 13,500 audiobook titles. [11] In January 2015, after the acquisition of Tantor Media, Recorded Books a catalog of more than 22,000 titles. [14] In August 2015, after the acquisition by Shamrock Advisors, the company reported publishing 3,000 new books annually with catalog of 25,000 ...
1. Gigayacht. Sold for: $168 million Roman Abramovich, a Russian billionaire, must have been staring at an empty dock for a while now, because the 168 milly he shelled out for a 400-foot yacht is ...
Prior to the development of the tape dispenser, 3M's standard clear scotch tape was sold as a roll, and had to be carefully peeled from the end and cut with scissors. To make the product more useful, the scotch tape sales manager at 3M, John Borden, designed the first tape dispenser in 1932, which had a built-in cutting mechanism and would hold the cut end of the tape until its next use.
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Auction house Germany $ 43,000,000 [6] October 1999: Blackthorne Listing tool United States — [7] June 13, 2000: Half.com: Online marketplace United States $ 318,000,000 [8] December 12, 2000: Precision Buying Service [note 1] E-commerce payment systems United States — [9] January 8, 2001: Internet Auction Co. Online auction South Korea ...
A cleaning company has been fined $171,000 after federal investigators found 11 children working a "dangerous" overnight shift at a meat processing plant in Iowa. The U.S. Labor Department sa id ...