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In celebration of this year's Oscar Awards, Bookreporter.com and Newmarket Press bring you our First Annual Bookreporter.com Oscar Basket for Book Lovers Contest. Newmarket Press is renowned for book tie-ins to some of the most successful and acclaimed films of our time, and it's primed for another big Oscar season with books tying in to 8 films that garnered a total of 29 Academy Award nominations. We're featuring all eight of those books in our basket, along with a $50 Blockbuster gift card and, of course, essential movie goodies --- an assortment of only the finest movie snacks and the obligatory popcorn!

The featured titles include: CAPOTE: The Shooting Script; MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA: A Portrait of the Film; THE CONSTANT GARDENER: The Shooting Script; THE SQUID AND THE WHALE: The Shooting Script; WAR OF THE WORLDS: The Shooting Script; CINDERELLA MAN: The Shooting Script; TIM BURTON'S CORPSE BRIDE: An Invitation to the Wedding.

(You can read full descriptions of all of these Newmarket's Oscar Tie-in books in our Oscar Watch Feature)

To enter to win our Oscar Basket for Book Lovers, answer the question below:

What is your favorite movie that was based on a book?

Send your answer to the question above, along with your name and snail mail address (Please note: We cannot mail to P.O Boxes) to Oscar@bookreporter.com by Wednesday, March 1st at 11:59PM.

Winners will be chosen in a random drawing from all correct responses received.

If you wish to snail mail your answer and address, please send to:
Oscar Basket for Book Lovers Contest
The Book Report
250 W 57th Street - Suite 1228
New York, NY 10107

All entries must be postmarked by Wednesday, March 1stat 11:59PM.

OFFICIAL CONTEST RULES FOR OUR Oscar Basket for Book Lovers

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED.

ELIGIBILITY: The contest is open to all residents of the United States (excluding Puerto Rico) over the age of 18. The following persons and their employees of The Book Report, Inc. and their affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising and promotion agencies, and the immediate families (spouse, parents, siblings, and children) of each of the above. Winners will be chosen in a random drawing from all correct responses received. One entry per e-mail address.

HOW TO ENTER: Contest is open from 9AM on Friday February 10th thru 11:59PM on Wednesday, March 1, 2006. While the contest is posted on Bookreporter.com, you can enter by answering this contest question:

QUESTION:

What is your favorite movie that was based on a book?

Send your answer to the question above, along with your name and snail mail address (Please Note: We cannot mail to P.O. Boxes) to Oscar@bookreporter.com by Wednesday, March 1, 2006 at 11:59PM.

Winners will be chosen in a random drawing from all correct responses received.

If you wish to snail mail your answer and address, please send to:

Oscar Basket for Book Lovers Contest
The Book Report
250 W 57th Street - Suite 1228
New York, NY 10107

All entries must be postmarked by Tuesday, February 28, 2006 and received by Wednesday, March 1, 2006.

HOW TO WIN: Total number of eligible entries received determines odds of winning. One entry per e-mail address. From all eligible entries received, Bookreporter.com will randomly select one (1) First Prize Winner who will receive a basket stocked with Newmarket Movie Tie-in Books and movie-themed items. Along with one copy of the each of the following titles --- CAPOTE: The Shooting Script; MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA: A Portrait of the Film; THE CONSTANT GARDENER: The Shooting Script; THE SQUID AND THE WHALE: The Shooting Script; WAR OF THE WORLDS: The Shooting Script; CINDERELLA MAN: The Shooting Script; TIM BURTON'S CORPSE BRIDE: An Invitation to the Wedding --- the winner will receive a $50 Blockbuster gift card and an assortment of movie candies (Approximate retail value: $275).

POSTING OF PRIZE WINNERS: All prize winners will be listed on Bookreporter.com by first name and city/state by Friday, March 3rd, 2006.

ALL ENTRIES MUST BE POSTMARKED BY Tuesday, February 28, 2006 and received by Wednesday, March 1, 2006.

LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY/RESERVED RIGHTS: Neither the Sponsor, nor the parent, subsidiary or affiliate companies, nor the promotional agencies shall have any obligation or responsibility with regard to (i) entries that contain inaccurate information or do not comply with these rules, (ii) entries, prize claims or notifications that are lost, late, incomplete, illegible, unintelligible, damaged or otherwise not received by the intended recipient, in whole or in part, due to computer or technical error of any kind, (iii) telephone, electronic, hardware, software, network, Internet or computer malfunctions, failures or difficulties, or (iv) any damages or losses of any kind caused by any prize or resulting from acceptance, possession or use of any prize. The Sponsor, in its sole discretion, reserves the right to disqualify any person tampering with the entry process or the operation of the Web Site or otherwise violating these rules. The Sponsor further reserves the right to cancel, terminate or modify the Sweepstakes if the Sweepstakes cannot be completed as planned because of infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention or technical failures of any sort.

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