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2,000,000-book Milestone Contest: Newsletter – April 2008

So many of you participated in the contest to guess the exact minute that the PBS library of available books would reach 2,000,000.   The time was 8:53 AM ET on 3/24/2008, and the 2,000,000th book was Mr. Timothy,  posted by Vikki C. (Vikki). Vikki got an easy 5 free credits for posting the milestone book!

Our grand prize winner (of 100 Book Credits, 1 Year Box-O-Books, 1 Year Book Journal,  $10.00 PBS Money, $10.00 SwapaCD.com Money and $10.00 SwapaDVD.com Money) was  Michael T. (flopp), who has been a member since 12/10/2007.    Michael was bowled over by the news that he had won!  The second place winner (of  25 Book Credits, 1 Year Box-O-Books, 1 Year Book Journal, $5.00 PBS Money, $5.00 SwapaCD.com Money and $5.00 SwapaDVD.com Money) was  Angela T. (rubyred) 1/19/2008.  She plans to share her credits with her dad–March 24th was his birthday!  The third place winner (of 10 Book Credits, 1 Year Box-O-Books, 1 Year Book Journal, $3.00 PBS Money, $3.00 SwapaDVD.com Money and $3.00 SwapaDVD.com Money) was Tiffany M. (beangirl), who has been a member since 11/5/2007.  Tiffany was totally psyched.  Congratulations to all the winners!  For quotes from these winners, please see the Contest Results page on the site.

We also had 8 members who guessed within half an hour each way of the winning time, and got 1 Book Credit each: Shai G. (LoveBeingMOM), Kimberly T. (HeartsongChica), Wendy B. (wendytomereader), J. H. E. (J. H. E.), Kate M. (kinare), Emily W. (Emily W.), Christine L. (claro) and Dawn A. (eyebright13).

We would like to thank all who participated in the contest.  This was really fun, and we look forward to the next one!

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