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The Great Cookbook Giveaway

Monday, November 16th, 2009

PBS Cooks is brand new– it just hit shelves in October 2009. Now you have a chance to win your very own copy just in time for Thanksgiving! We’re giving away 1 cookbook a day for the rest of the week. (Nov. 17th – 21st)

To Enter: If you’ve tried one of the recipes from the cookbook already, let us know which one and how you liked it! If you don’t have a cookbook already, post one of your own favorite recipes. We will randomly pick a winner each day from ALL comments posted. So you only have to comment once to be eligible all week long.

1. The cookbook winner for day 1 (Nov. 17th) is Dana L. (daltonryan) -Congratulations Dana!
2. Day #2 (Nov. 18th) Winner is “T.” with the Pinto beans and cornbread recipe!
3. Day #3 (Nov. 19th) Winner is Debra H. with Crumb topped Blueberry Muffins!
4. Day #4 (Nov. 20th) The Winner is Marsha G. and her Briar Patch recipe!
5. Final Day #5 (Nov. 21st) Our Final Winner is June P. (JuneRose) with Cabbage & Noodles- Congratulations June!

Congratulations once again to our winners! Thank you all for participating in the Great Cookbook Giveaway!

Be one of the lucky members to get the first edition of the PBS Cookbook! Over 200 pages of recipes submitted by PaperBackSwap members bound in linen-finish laminated hardcover with a comb binding. Authors: YOU. Edited by Sherry N. (royaltech). Assistant Editor: Elizabeth B. (Cattriona). Illustrator: Jeff & Carolee P.

In addition to all the great member recipes, there is a special collection of recipes by PBS’ favorite authors, including:
Angela Hunt, Barbara Delinsky, Bertrice Small, Beverly Lewis, Carla Neggers, Charles David, Christopher Moore, Dave Barry, David Anthony, Diana Gabaldon, Elmer Kelton, Joy Nash, Judith Tarr, Julie Garwood, Karen Dinino, Ken Follett, Laura Fitzgerald, Linda Rosencrance, Linda Woods, Lisa See, Lisa Shearin, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Weis, Mindy Klasky, Philippa Gregory, and Rob Palmer!

Want a small taste of the Author Recipes?
Dave Barry’s extremely challenging recipe
David Anthony’s Crunchy Dragonscale Delight
Ken Follett ’s Hot Dressed Vegetables
Margaret Weis‘ Pink Potato Salad
…and many more!

Good Luck on the giveaway, but make sure to get your order in before we run out!

Did you know we also swap recipes on PaperBackSwap.com? Check it out… www.paperbackswap.com/recipes

Tags: Book Recommendations, Contests, PBS Cookbook, Recipes, The Great Cookbook Giveaway
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Survey Winners

Monday, August 17th, 2009

Survey Winners

We invited a random sampling of members to take part in a survey about PBS. We want to thank everyone that participated. Your responses will help us continue to be the best book club in America.

We held a drawing from all those that completed the survey. These are the lucky 10 members that won 5 credits and $5.00 PBS Money:

Amy M.
Dexter S.
Michelle B.
Dana G.
Edward H.
Leonora L.
Deborah C.
Holly B.
Janet T.
Monica C.

Tags: Contests, Members, Survey
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Twitter BackGround Design Contest is on! #pbs_twitter

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

Got Mad Design Skills?

PBS Twitter BG

PaperBackSwap.com is holding a Twitter Background Design Contest for their Twitter Profile @paperbackswap. We wanted to give our talented members a chance to get involved in representing our company. What better way than with a Twitter Background Design Contest!

When does it begin? Thursday, May 7^th
Deadline for submissions: Sunday, June 7^th 2009

Where to submit your entry?
Beginning May 7th! Go to TwitterBackgroundsGallery.com to submit your design. A huge thanks to TwitterBackgroundsGallery.com for helping us set this up & use their website to run the contest. *Please Note: After submitting your design please keep your original files safe and secure. The winners will need to send the original files to PaperBackSwap for use. We will contact the winners with details.

Who will be judging the contest?

“People’s Choice” -You all will choose 5.
“Our Choice” – The PBS Team will choose 5.

Prizes

Prizes will be offered to the top 10 designs!
1^st Place Winners (2):People’s Choice & Our Choice = $100 +25 credits (transferable between PaperbackSwap.com/SwapaCD.com/SwapaDVD.com), 1 Year Box-O-Books, 1 Year Book Journal, $10.00 PaperbackSwap Money, $10.00 SwapaCD.com Money and $10.00 SwapaDVD.com Money)
2^nd place Winners (2): 20 Credits transferable
3^rd place Winners (2): 15 Credits transferable
4^th place Winners (2): 10 Credits transferable
5^th place Winners (2): 5 Credits transferable
The top 10 designs will be rotated on the PaperbackSwap Twitter Profile (@paperbackswap) throughout the next 2 years.
The top 10 entries will be featured in the PaperbackSwap.com twitter profile, newsletter & blog.

Rules

To win- You must be a member of PaperbackSwap.com. (U.S. Only – Free & Easy to register)
Submit as many entries as you want.
We must receive your files and they must be usable. *See note above.
All Artwork must be original.
Professional, Creative, Family-Friendly designs only please.
By submitting your design, you release your rights & give PaperbackSwap.com full use of the design.
The Public / PaperbackSwap.com team will decide which designs are best.
You may use our Logos, Banners, or Stock Images found on PaperbackSwap.com
We reserve the right to make changes to the contest at any time.

Tips

View twitter background tips and resources on TwitterBackgroundsGallery.com
Multiple Monitor resolutions will be viewing the backgrounds.
Please credit yourself on the design (you can put ‘designed by…’ for instance)
must be up-loadable to twitter… test on your twitter profile first.

Help Spread the Word!

The more the merrier! Please help spread the word via your blogs, facebook, myspace, blogs, drop a flyer by an art class, etc. For Twitter use the hashtag #pbs_twitter when tweeting about this competition. Retweeting the tweets of @paperbackswap about this competition will be really helpful too!

I’m sure questions will come up during the competition and we’ll try our best to address them as quickly as possible via Twitter and the PaperBackSwap.com Blog.

Thanks!

Richard & The PaperBackSwap Team

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Dear Members, Newsletter – March 2008

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

March is…National Foot Health Month, National Furniture Refinishing Month, National Frozen Food Month, National Noodle Month, and National Peanut Month. We’re gonna celebrate by eating frozen Pad Thai with our pedicured feet on our refinished dining room table, every single day! How about you?

Well, we have a way for you to celebrate March, no feet OR peanuts involved: it’s time for another Contest! Yes, the 2,000,000-book Milestone Contest is here! We are giving away huge prizes, and allowing for more winners than ever. The way it works: Each member gets one guess at the precise minute that the PBS library contains two million available books. Yes, that means when the two-millionth available book is posted. Remember that the counter at the top of the site records books as they are posted–as they are requested (or put on hold), the number may fall again. But when the book is posted that puts the number of available books over 2 million, that is the winning time! You can submit guesses here beginning Monday March 10, 2008 at 12 NOON ET, and you have until the counter at the top of the site shows 1,995,000 books to submit your guess. We will announce the winners on the contest page when the results have been tabulated. For rules and prize descriptions, please see the Contest Page on the site. Good luck to everyone!

On a more somber note, we were so touched to hear from one of our members, who recently lost her husband. She wanted to send a message of thanks to all who contacted her.
“How do I say thank you to all of the wonderful PBSers, who have helped me through this most difficult time? Every day I get cards, flowers, gifts or just a PM saying “thinking of you.” Late at night when sleep eludes me, I come to PBS and it lifts me up to see how many have put my sunny avatar in their signature and how many have a kind word to say to or about me. I wish I could convey how loved and special each word, each gesture makes me feel. From Richard and Robert to many whose name I don’t recognize, the outpouring of love and support for me is overwhelming. Thank you for filling a portion of an empty heart.” Cozette (CozSnShine)
Cozette, our thoughts are with you. Things like this remind us that PaperBackSwap is more than a bookswapping club–it really is a family.

We wish all of our PBS family a wonderful March and great reading!

Richard and Robert
and The PaperBackSwap Team

Tags: Contests, Milestones
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NEWS: Newsletter – September 2007

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

Just Put Down the Stamps, and No One Will Get Hurt. PBS Printable postage is here! Yes, now you can print the postage to send your books right onto the PBS Wrapper. Just click Print Wrapper as usual, and you will see the new Wrapper Settings page with the option to choose postage (PBS-DC included), just PBS-DC, or neither. Check the package weight estimate and correct it if necessary, then print the wrapper and mail! Because printed postage is not subject to the “13-oz regulation” (all packages bearing stamps that weigh over 13 oz must be handed to a postal clerk at the PO), you can mail your PBS-printed-postage-package (say that three times fast) with your outgoing mail, drop it in a blue mailbox, etc. If you don’t have a postal scale, you should check out the one in the PBS Store–it’s a great deal at $24.99. Remember, you can opt to use printed postage with any package, or not; there is no monthly subscription fee. It’s as easy (and inexpensive) as we could make it! Now get a-printin’! PBS Postage will also become available for Box-O-Books and Custom DC very soon.

She’s in the Money...Well, in the book credits, at least. The Winner of the PBS Third Birthday Contest (and 50 book credits) was Dawn F., who made a spectacular guess of 1,477,378 for the total available books as of noon on September 1st. The actual number was just ONE book more: 1,477,379. We got guesses all over the spectrum (a couple of you thought we’d have seven million books!), and some very close to the number, but no one as close as Dawn. We don’t know if she’s pyschic or lucky or what, but we will be asking her to choose our lottery numbers for sure…

Apology from PBS. We had significant server trouble on August 20th; it took down the whole site for several hours, a really unprecedented length of downtime for PBS. It took a while to track the problem to its source: the PBS Daily Digest and Daily Wish List. These emails really put a strain on the server. We think we have fixed the problem now. We know you all love your Digests! We are sorry our servers found them…well, indigestible.

Tags: Book Database, Contests, Printable Postage, Shipping Books & USPS
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The Great Cookbook Giveaway

PBS Cooks is brand new– it just hit shelves in October 2009. Now you have a chance to win your very own copy just in time for Thanksgiving! We’re giving away 1 cookbook a day for the rest of the week. (Nov. 17th – 21st)

Survey Winners

Twitter BackGround Design Contest is on! #pbs_twitter

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