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April-May MLB News Available for Download

For all of our Go Green customers (and anyone else reading this email newsletter) the April-May edtion of the MLB News, including the Festival of Mystery insert, is now available for download.

Just click on this link and you'll see the April-May News in your web browser just as it appears in print. If you don't care to read the News on your computer screen, simply print it out. Be sure to use the Adobe Reader print button not the print button for your web browser.

Read the MLB News and win $5 - no fooling!

Our offer of a $5 Gift Certificate to anyone who found typos in the News was such a success last time that we're repeating it. Our thanks to our army of volunteer proofreaders and our hopes that you'll be equally motivated this time.

The April-May News is available right now on the website but we won't be sending it to the printer until Friday. You can win a $5 Gift Certificate if you can find a typo or error in the News before we send it out.

Here are the rules:

These are typos or errors:

• Misspelled words
• Reviews missing the author, publisher, price or title
• Clear grammatical errors such as verb-object agreement, that/which and the like
• Titles of the reviewed book not bolded, titles of other books not italicized.
• Titles in the Also Noted section are not italicized.
• Titles in the Festival insert are italicized, not bolded

These are not errors

• Sentence fragments ("A great read" is a stylistic signature of the News)
• Words or phrases that you might consider infelicitous, cliched, hackneyed and the like
• Any other "error" which the editor, in his total discretion, doesn't think is an error
• Any and all errors relating to the use of commas. I'm sorry but we received a number of these, often contradictory, and it seem that no one agrees on the correct us of commas.
• Any spelling or capitalization of Al Qaeda. I have researched this thoroughly and there is absolutely no agreement on the way to represent this organization in the Roman alphabet.

How to win your $5 Gift Certificate

• Download and read the MLB News from April-May
• Find an error (or errors)
• Send us an email before 5 pm on Friday April 3. You can simply reply to this email or use our Contact Form.

Good Hunting.

Upcoming Events

Apr. 3 - Laura Lippman
Apr. 7 - Harley Jane Kozak
Apr. 20 - Susan Wittig Albert
May 4 - Festival of Mystery
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