Someday, as with reel-to-reel tape, typewriters, faxes and rotary-dial phones, we will have to explain the Entertainment Book concept to future generations. It was kind of like Groupon on paper, we'll say. But instead of pre-paying for individual discounted products and service as you needed them, you just bought this big catalog of coupons every year.
That someday arrives sooner rather than later as the publisher of the Entertainment Book -- always a can't-miss Christmas gift for letter carriers and substitute teachers - -has filed for bankruptcy after 51 years in business.
WWJ: Entertainment Publications — the Troy-based company known for those thick coupon books — has filed for bankruptcy protection and laid off hundreds of employees. According to its website, the company employs about 500 people with more than half of those in southeast Michigan.
