Bonus Books is an American

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 book publisher based in Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, California

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. The company publishes approximately 30 books per year, primarily "how to" books on subjects such as casino gambling

Gambling

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, sports biographies, broadcasting

Broadcasting

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 and journalism

Journalism

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. Frequent authors include Frank Scoblete

Frank Scoblete

Frank Scoblete is an American author who has written both under his own name and King Scobe about casino gambling. Referred to by the Washington Post as "a widely published authority on casino games," his books include Beat the Craps out of the Casinos, Golden Touch Blackjack Revolution, and Beat...

 and John Grochowski

John Grochowski

John Grochowski is a gambling columnist and author. His weekly newspaper column began at the Chicago Sun-Times and is now syndicated nationally. He published his first gambling book in 1996 entitled Gaming: Cruising the Casino with a Syndicated Gambling Columnist. He then began a series of...

. An additional imprint

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 is Volt Press.

History

The company was established in the 1970s and was based in Chicago, Illinois until 2002, when it was acquired by a Los Angeles publishing executive, Jeffrey Stern, who had previously published Details

Details (magazine)

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magazine.

Currently, it does not have a working web site and no truly current information is available. May 13, 2010

Selected titles

• The Divorce Lawyers’ Guide to Staying Married
• Best Newspaper Writing
• Broadcast Voice Handbook
• Get the Edge
• Covering Catastrophe
• The Slot Machine Answer Book