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Square Offers Beauty Sector Online Booking, POS Tool

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The app-based tool gives salon customers the ability to book their appointments online and also issues reminders. Aside from booking and payments, the enhanced Square Appointments solution also enables sellers to manage inventory. .

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Demand For Books Surprisingly Outstrips Supply During Pandemic

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The pandemic has had something of a strange effect on the world of book publishing. Shut-down bookstores and closed classrooms initially depressed sales in the market, particularly of educational books. But that drop-off has reportedly been replaced and even surpassed by consumer demand for printed books to be read during the pandemic.

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With Millions Trapped At Home, Books Are Back, Baby!

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We are expecting our biggest Christmas ever, and with the ability to process up to 60,000 book sales a day, we will be able to satisfy more customers,” Booktopia CEO Tony Nash told reporters after ringing the opening bell at the stock exchange in Sydney Thursday. Booktopia currently has about a 6 percent share of Australian book sales, a $2.5

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Uber Targets Senior Riders With Phone Booking Service

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Uber is launching a new telephone booking service aimed at older consumers in the U.S. Uber does allow for bookings through a web browser, but an account needs to be set up in advance. Uber also offers Uber Assist, its accessibility program, as well as a feature that allows people to book rides for other users.

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The CB Insights Book of Market Maps

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Our 139-page coffee table book features 120+ market maps created by CB Insights analysts to help you identify which technology markets and companies should be on your radar, including AI lifecycle management, omnichannel enablement, B2B payments tech, and more. FREE DOWNLOAD: BOOK OF MARKET MAPS. FREE DOWNLOAD: BOOK OF MARKET MAPS.

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Amazon Unveils Children’s Book Subscriptions

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As a first for its Prime membership service, Amazon has unveiled a subscription service for children’s books. Through the program, customers will be able to purchase age-appropriate boxes of books picked out by Amazon’s team of editors, TechCrunch reported. based Prime members, in 2016.

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Can A Startup Compete With Amazon For Online Book Sales?

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A startup with a plan to take on Amazon in the world of digital book sales might at first seem, well, a little crazy. Books were where Amazon got its first toehold into American consumers’ lives, and the idea that an upstart could step onto their home field and snag a win is tough to believe.

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