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Borders employees issue class action suit for severance pay

Sep 06 2011: Borders is back in court to request a bonus package for management, which totals $1.75 million. The severance provides for $125,000 for fifteen management employees.... While Borders is looking to reward management for its tireless efforts, rank-and-file Borders ...

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Bookstores serving as showrooms for ebook users

Sep 02 2011: A recent Simba Information survey of more than 110 bookstores across the country reports that 38% had noticed their former regular customers who now own an ereader, "often or very often" visit to browse the shelves without buying anything, while 43% said non-regular ...

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Amazon offers jobs in lieu of collecting California sales tax

Sep 02 2011: Amazon is offering to bring thousands of jobs to California as it tries to back away from a ballot-box confrontation over the state's new Internet sales tax law. It's a strategy the company has used in other states as it tries to squash a growing movement toward taxing ...

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New Sony Reader launching in October

Aug 31 2011: Sony has confirmed that the new Sony Reader, the PRS-T1 based on the latest generation Pearl E-ink screen, will launch in October 2011 with a retail price of $149 in the USA and €165 in Europe.

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Amazon sets up $5m fund to overturn California law

Aug 26 2011: Amazon has so far contributed more than $5 million to the More Jobs Not Taxes campaign committee it set up in July (and is currently the sole contributor to). The committee's purpose is to overturn a California law requiring online retailers to collect sales taxes on ...

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Obituary: Barbara Drummond Mead, president of Reading Group Choices

Aug 26 2011: Barbara Drummond Mead, president of Reading Group Choices (readinggroupchoices.com), died on Tuesday. She was 51.

Mead worked as a bookseller and event organizer at McIntyre's Books, Pittsboro, N.C., and Covered Treasures Bookstore, Monument, Colo., before buying ...

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Hachette may enter library ebook market

Aug 24 2011: Hachette Book Group appear to be reconsidering their decision not to allow their new books to be offered in ebook format through libraries. If they go ahead this will reverse the previous decision that has kept Hachette's frontlist ebook titles out of libraries since ...

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Notting Hill's Travel Bookshop closing in two weeks

Aug 23 2011: Having failed to find a buyer, The Travel Bookshop in West London, which was made famous by the Hugh Grant film "Notting Hill", is closing down in two weeks.

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