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Borders sales fall, stock rises
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Aug 27 2008: The Wall Street Journal reports that in the second quarter (to Aug 2), sales at Borders Group bookstores fell 6.9% to $758.5 million with a net loss of $9.2 million, an improvement on the net loss of $25 million this time last year. The company said that though US superstore sales were down 9%...
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Co-author of 100 Things to Do Before You Die dies at 47
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Aug 27 2008: Dave Freeman, co-author of 100 Things to Do Before You Die: Travel Events You Just Can't Miss (1999), which started a trend of similar books, died last week after falling and hitting his head. He was 47. Freeman's
co-author, Neil Teplica, says, "you should live every day like it...
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Amazon buys Shelfari
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Aug 26 2008: Book social networking site Shelfari has announced that Amazon, already an investor, is buying the company.
Amazon also has a minority stake in LibraryThing which they acquired as part of the recent AbeBooks purchase a few weeks...
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12 bidders for Publishers Weekly's parent company
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Aug 18 2008: Up to 12 bidders submitted first-round offers for Reed Elsevier's Reed Business Information division (parent company of Publishers Weekly and many other publications), which is valued at between £1bn and...
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Obama campaign publishes 40 page rebuttal to The Obama Nation
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Aug 17 2008: With the title Unfit for Publication, Senator Barack Obama's campaign has issued a 40-page rebuttal to The Obama Nation, authored by Jerome Corsi, who co-authored Unfit for Command, part of the "Swift Boating" campaign against John Kerry in...
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Rushdie condemns cancellation of Muhammad novel
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Aug 17 2008: Salman Rushdie strongly criticized his publisher for pulling a historical novel about the prophet Muhammad and his child bride over concerns about angering Muslims.
Rushdie, whose The Satanic Verses led to a death decree in 1989 from Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and forced...
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NY Times critiques 'Obama Nation'
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Aug 13 2008: Yesterday,
The New York Times gave front page coverage to Jerome Corsi's new book The Obama Nation saying:
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Public vote to find the oddest book title of the past 30 years
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Aug 11 2008: To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year, the UK trade publishing magazine, The Bookseller, has announced the "Diagram of Diagrams" – a public vote to find the oddest book title of the past 30 years.
The winner of the Diagram of...
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Edinburgh Book Festival celebrates 25 years
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Aug 08 2008: The Edinburgh Book Festival celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. It was founded as a biennial event and has become the largest festival of its kind in the world. This year's festival runs from the 9th to 25th August with appearances by Sean Connery, Charlie Higson, Margaret Atwood, Kate...
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