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Shareholders sue B&N over purchase of B&N College

Aug 20 2009: Barnes and Noble shareholders, led by the Louisiana Municipal Police Employees Retirement System, are suing Barnes & Noble over its proposed plan to buy privately-owned Barnes & Noble College - which is owned by Len Riggio, who is also chairman of, and the largest ...

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Reader's Digest files for bankruptcy

Aug 18 2009: Reader's Digest Association Inc plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy for its U.S. businesses as part of a prearranged plan with lenders to cut debt by 75 percent.

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E-Fairness Victory in North Carolina

Aug 11 2009: It took an extra month for North Carolina's $19 billion state budget to win passage, but when Gov. Beverly Perdue signs the budget, North Carolina will become the third state in the U.S., to enact an e-fairness provision, which will ensure that online retailers with ...

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Authors Guild claims William Morris 'off target' on Google settlement

Aug 11 2009: After the New York Times reported that the William Morris Endeavor agency would be officially advising clients to opt out of the Google settlement, the Authors Guild issued a statement of its own Monday afternoon claiming the agency was off base in its assessment and ...

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New guidelines for disclosing paid promotions on blogs

Aug 11 2009: Two of the National Advertising Review Council’s investigative units plan to announce Tuesday their first decisions involving blogs. Their recommendations call for clear disclosure when a company is sponsoring a site or paying for product reviews.

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'The Graveyard Book' wins Hugo Award

Aug 10 2009: Neil Gaiman has won the Hugo Award for The Graveyard Book

The Hugo Awards, given annually since 1955, are science fiction’s most prestigious award. The Hugos are voted on by the thousands of members of the current Worldcon which is also responsible for ...

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Novelist & screenwriter Budd Schulberg dies, aged 95

Aug 06 2009: Budd Schulberg, who wrote the award-winning screenplay for On the Waterfront and created a classic American archetype of naked ambition, Sammy Glick, in his novel What Makes Sammy Run?, died on Wednesday. He was 95.

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Philippa Gregory to tweet latest novel

Aug 06 2009: Philippa Gregory will serialise her latest novel on Twitter in the week preceding The White Queen's publication later this month.

Gregory has written the tweets of Elizabeth Woodville, the main protagonist of the novel. The tweets can be viewed at www.twitter.com/...

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