Archive for the ‘BookPal News’ CategoryIRVINE, Calif. , Nov. 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — BookPal, LLC, a bulk book supplier, is pleased to announce that it has been featured on the Orange County Business Journal’s List of Top 100 Fastest Growing Private Companies. BookPal is ranked #3 with 2-year revenue growth of over 1,000%. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20111116/LA07780-b) (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20111116/LA07780LOGO-a) BookPal is honored by the recognition alongside notable companies such as Yogurtland, Inc., Vizio, Inc., and Yard House USA , Inc. President, Tony DiCostanzo credits BookPal’s impressive growth to their excellent customer service, extensive title selection and discounted prices. “Given the recent troubles facing booksellers this year, we are thrilled by our growth in 2011,” said DiCostanzo. “We’ve added additional staff to our team and we are looking forward expanding BookPal in the coming year.” BookPal is excited to launch the second phase of their new website this November. With over a million titles and pricing soon to be available online, ordering books in bulk is easier than ever. Along with their comprehensive book selection, BookPal offers promotional books and other special service to clients that include Google, WellsFargo, General Electric, Northwestern University , Coca-Cola and the United States Marine Corp. About BookPal: BookPal is a bulk book seller that specializes in selling books of any genre in quantities of 25 or more copies per title. The company offers over 5 million current book and movie titles to its business, association, non-profit, educational and government clients. BookPal provides book customization services and expedited shipping options to customers worldwide. Founded in 2005, BookPal is headquartered in Irvine, California . For more information, please visit www.book-pal.com or call (866) 522-6657 to speak to a friendly and knowledgeable member of BookPal’s team.
Eric Carle is best known for his unique picture books with engaging illustrations designed for young children. Eric Carle is the author of the classic children titles such as The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? and The Grouchy Ladybug. His most famous work, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, has been read by millions of children all over the world and has been translated into more than 50 different languages. Just two years ago, The Very Hungry Caterpillar celebrated its 40th Anniversary. As I am sure most of you remember, this book is about a tiny green caterpillar that eats his way though the book until he transforms into a beautiful butterfly. For our pumpkin, we combined the classic themes of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and still kept our festive flare. We stuck to the Halloween theme by using small pumpkins to comprise all of the elements in our entry including the body of the caterpillar. BookPal’s take on The Very Hungry Caterpillar was awarded 1st place in the Lakeshore Towers 19th Annual Pumpkin Carving Contest! BookPal offers all of the versions of The Very Hungry Caterpillar available as well as all of the other Eric Carle classics. Please click here to request a quote!
“At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology. He built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering. Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written nor even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing off-limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted. Driven by demons, Jobs could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and products were interrelated, just as Apple’s hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values.” The BookPal team works on Macs daily and we use Apple servers and iPhones so we are without doubt huge fans of the fruits of Job’s work over the last 30 years. Apple gadgets have made our work life easier, more fun and more efficient. The BookPal team was all saddened by his passing. Who knows what he could have done with 30 more years… Look for Steve Jobs biography in bulk starting October 24th on Book-Pal.com.
A select handful of the OC Metro’s Top 40 Under 40 Entrepreneurs and Business Professionals were invited by the British American Business Council (BABC) to participate in a special breakfast event to share ideas for global growth and BookPal’s Founder and President was one of the panelists! “I want to thank the BABC for including me in such an enlightening and fun event. I was honored to be a part of it to promote BookPal and share ideas for global growth in the years to come as well as share insights for young entrepreneurs,” said BookPal President, Tony DiCostanzo.  BABC Breakfast Panelists Other participants included talented young concert pianist Berenika Schmitz, the leader in “Live Virtual Interviews” Theo Rokos, Director of Government Affairs for FlexEnergy Michael Levin, Sr. Manager of Executive Communications for the Walt Disney Company Matt Prince and Los Angeles Times Reporter Janice Voshall. The membership of the British American Business Council – Orange County includes many of the world’s leading multi-national companies and medium sized corporations in a variety of industries The BABC OC provides members with access to practical, measurable business expansion opportunities by delivering high-caliber networking and targeted marketing platforms, as well as top-quality business intelligence and influence. BookPal’s wants to thank BABC for extending the opportunity to learn about the success stories of these great entrepreneurs. Irvine, CA (PRWEB) June 15, 2011
While DiCostanzo is grateful for the recognition, he is even more excited to be planning ways BookPal can begin giving back to the community. His team is working on launching a non-profit arm of BookPal, named BookPal Gives (bookpal.org coming soon). The non-profit will provide book donations to literacy programs, children’s hospitals, schools, and other organizations unable to purchase the books they need. BookPal Gives’ mission is to promote and instill a love of books for children and help organizations that are dealing with financial challenges continue to be able to provide books as part of their community programs. BookPal has directly supported organizations in the past with deeper discounts, free shipping and complementary copies of books, but looks forward to significantly increasing these initiatives under the BookPal Gives umbrella which will allow BookPal to do even more to serve its community and establish a life-long love of reading. The next big project coming down the pipeline in 2011-2012 will be the launch of Skoob Media (skoobmedia.com to be launched soon). This digital content creation arm of the bulk book retailer’s business will take BookPal’s expertise in corporate, education and government book purchasing trends and partner with publishers to create digital content for customers’ use on tablet computers like the iPad. In addition, Skoob Media will develop unique e-book content for tablets. With 25 million iPads sold in just 14 months, and recent announcements by hospitals, airlines, retailers, pharmaceutical companies, etc. who are planning to provide these devices to employees, the need for apps and content sold in bulk and suited for their needs continues to soar. Book-Pal.com continues to make upgrades and improvements and this week we launched a cool new blog feed on our home page that is animated with the latest BookPal blog news and information. This way you can preview the story on our home page before clicking through to check out the blog. And don’t forget- every post has a “share” button so you can distribute your favorite posts to Facebook or Twitter friends or even just email it over.
Another nifty improvement you will notice soon is that our blog has a fresh look and new style that matches our main website. This has been a long coming project and we are excited to share the fruits of our efforts.
Laura Hillenbrand, the best-selling author of “Seabiscuit: An American Legend,” is known for her exuberant storytelling and dynamic characters. Her newest book, “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption,” is a riveting tale of the life of an athlete and war hero, Louis Zamperini. Every day more than 700 veterans of World War II die, and with each one goes a story, or dozens of them. Laura Hillenbrand reached Louis Zamperini just in the nick of time — he was in his mid-80s when she found him, and 93 now— and it’s an excellent thing, for his is surely one of the most extraordinary war stories of all. As the story goes, the 26-year-old Zamperini went down over the Pacific in late May 1943. Afterwards, he clung to life on a flimsy raft for nearly seven weeks as he waited to die or be saved. After traveling nearly 2,000 miles they ended up in a Japanese prison camp where they were forced to work for the next two years. His story is a testament to the courage and ingenuity of America’s greatest war heroes, and without this captivating book many of these tales would be lost. More amazingly is that throughout the creation of this novel, Hillenbrand suffered with a debilitating disease. Her ability to transport her readers to another time and place is all the more remarkable in light of the fact that she is largely homebound, largely incapacitated by Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, or C.F.S. The illness, a devastating and little understood disorder, is characterized by overwhelming fatigue and various nonspecific symptoms like muscle pain, memory problems, sore throat, swollen lymph nodes, achy joints and difficulty getting restful sleep.
Unbroken is available in bulk quantities of 25 or more right now on Book-Pal.com!
BookPal has teamed up with Blue Cross to help with their pre-natal initiative to educate and inform expectant parents by offering them free pre-natal books to jump start their education. The current program is offering What to Expect the First Year and What to Expect When You Are Expecting which has been coined “the pregnancy bible” for new and expectant mothers seeking advice on a variety of topics. The book covers not only gestational stages and your growing child’s development but a variety of health issues.
These books are an excellent tool and guide for new parents and they are an important supplement to the educational classes that expectant parents can take at their local hospitals and clinics. Although many of the topics covered, such as emergency situations or illnesses, may never come up for you- it’s always a great education to know what to look for and how to treat many of the common ailments that babies go through. The authors have taken years to refine the research and information in the book and it has gone through several reprints to date so you know the data is time tested and Mom approved!
If you happen to browse through the May 2011 issue of the OC Metro, Orange County’s premier business and lifestyle magazine, and flip to page 41 you may notice a familiar face to the BookPal family. Our own founder and President, Tony DiCostanzo made the list, sliding in at a young 38! This list honors community business leaders who have accomplished extraordinary acumen in business and have brought their entrepreneurship to the Orange County community.
Tony will be attending a special party later this month to celebrate the honorees so check back because we will post pictures of the event and share all the juicy details! We are so proud of Tony and his continued commitment to the growth and success of BookPal. As our family of clients and employees grows, he continues to be grateful for their support and dedication to the BookPal promise which is to deliver bulk books at unprecedented selection and value to clients worldwide. Cheers to Tony and thanks for your support and continued patronage of Book-Pal.com! First5LA.org, a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing resources together to help parents raise healthy kids in Los Angeles has selected BookPal to be its bulk book retailer of choice. This on-going contract will provide hundreds of books to various First 5 initiatives over the next several months.
We’re excited to continue working with First 5 LA as they continue on their mission to helping children and families throughout LA. |
BookPal, LLC a worldwide supplier of bulk books had the honor of its President, Tony DiCostanzo, being named as an OC Metro 
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And, What to Expect the First Year covers the baby basics including feeding and sleeping schedules, developmental milestones, learning the signs and symptoms of different illnesses and how to treat them and other parenting advice from doctors and experts.
It all started a few months ago after working with First 5 Monterey County on two large customized book orders, we thought we would be a good fit for other First 5 programs. After reviewing our qualifications and our selection of titles on child care that we thought might fit with their program they picked BookPal to continue with a contract. Their first request for children’s books was for books with a dental care/tooth theme. We provided a list of recommended titles and First 5 LA placed an order for 100 copies of a Scholastic title called “Brush, Brush, Brush!” We were able to offer free shipping on this title.
