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Hawaii to Get Books, Not Bucks, from B&TIn the wake of its June settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, book wholesaler Baker & Taylor has also reached an agreement with the state of Hawaii in a lawsuit that resulted from a controversial five-year purchasing contract in 1996. Hawaii State Librarian Virginia Lowell announced July 22 that the state’s public libraries will receive $75,000 in books, all of them selected and ordered by the Hawaii State Public Library System, as part of the settlement. Lowell admitted that problems with the state’s case against Baker & Taylor prompted them to settle out of court for much less than the $700,000 originally sought. “I think we settled the best that we can,” Lowell told the July 23 Honolulu Star-Bulletin. “What we found . . . was that the contract language and the testimony that we had in support of the state’s lawsuit just didn’t add up.” The North Carolina-based Baker & Taylor, which could face additional litigation in other states, announced July 28 that it was combining its Books and Entertainment units and restructuring along customer lines into two divisions, institutional and retail. Posted August 9, 1999. |
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