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Store Closing List Released by Borders

Feb 16 2011: Citing a lack of capital and a desire to "reposition itself successfully for the long term," Borders Group has filed for bankruptcy owing $1.29 billion, at least $230 million of which is owed to book publishers and distributors. It's supposed assets are listed at $1....

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Rowling wins at Baftas

Feb 14 2011: J K Rowling was awarded the "Outstanding British Contibution to Cinema" at the British Academy Film Awards (Baftas) last night as "The King’s Speech" swept the boards...

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Borders Reportedly to Declare Bankruptcy This Week

Feb 14 2011: As early as today or tomorrow, Borders will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization, close between 150 and 250 of its 500 superstores and 165 smaller stores and lay off thousands of its 19,500 employees, the Wall Street Journal reported. Shelf Awareness analyzes ...

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Redwall author Brian Jacques dies aged 71

Feb 08 2011: A former merchant sailor whose children's books sold millions worldwide has died aged 71.

Brian Jacques' Redwall series of books were translated into 29 languages and sold 20m globally.

He died after a heart attack at the weekend and leaves a wife and two grown up...

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Kindle upgrade coming soon

Feb 08 2011: Owners of latest generation Kindle and Kindle 3G will be getting new features soon including the ability to share notes about their books publicly, real page numbers that correspond to the print copy, and a 'before you go' feature that lets them immediately rate each ...

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Canada's largest book distributor files for bankruptcy

Feb 04 2011: H.B. Fenn, Canada's largest book distributor and owner since 2004 of Key Porter Books, has filed for bankruptcy.

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Grizzly Adams creator Charles Sellier dies at 67

Feb 03 2011: Charles Sellier - creator of the book, film and TV series The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams - has died aged 67.

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News Corp debut a daily newspaper for the iPad

Feb 02 2011: Murdoch's News Corporation today announced a new newspaper exclusively for the iPad. "The Daily" is available as a downloadable app, available exclusively through the iTunes store, for a weekly subscription of 99 cents.

"Our target audience is the 15 million ...

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