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Borders Group reevaluates issuing convertible notes

Apr 05 2007: Borders Group owners of Borders and Walden bookstores is "reevaluating" the $250 million of convertible senior notes it was planning to issue today in order to pay off other debts. The turnaround is due to "shareholder feedback." David Dreman, whose Dreman Value ...

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British Book Award Winners

Mar 31 2007: The 2007 British Book Awards have been announced.  The winners include: John Grisham (Lifetime Achievement award), The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld (Best Read of the Year), Richard Dawkins (Author of the Year), The Sound of Laughter by Peter Kay (...

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L.A. Times Book Review redesigns to emphasize web coverage

Mar 30 2007: The Los Angeles Times will debut its new Sunday book coverage on April 15 as part of a new section called 'Opinion' that will combine the Book Review with the Currents section.

Tim Rutten, an associate features editor at the paper, explains, "They are two distinct ...

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Awards: The BookBrowse Diamond and Ruby Winners

Mar 29 2007: BookBrowse.com, today announced the winners of its 2007 book awards. The winners are:

• The BookBrowse Diamond Award for Best Book Overall: Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen.
• The BookBrowse Ruby Award for Best Children's Book: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak.

The ...

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Oprah Picks The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Mar 28 2007: Oprah has picked Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalypic novel The Road as her second book club pick of 2007. "He is an intensely private author, who doesn't do tours or give blurbs, and doesn't usually do things like go on Oprah, but he will be doing his first-ever TV ...

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Book credited with saving boy's life.

Mar 22 2007: Yesterday, a team of rescuers found Michael Auberry, the 12-year-old Boy Scout who had been missing in the rugged wilderness of western North Carolina for four days, alive and well, if a bit shaken and dehydrated.

According to his father, Kent Auberry, a key to the ...

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Borders announces loss and plans to restructure

Mar 22 2007: Borders Group announced both a fourth-quarter loss and plans to "reinvent itself" through a plan to roughly triple pretax profit margins.

The company's plan entails boosting inventory turnover by 25%, focusing on its domestic superstores (redesigning some to include...

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65% of Harry Potter 7's 12-million print run to be on recycled paper

Mar 21 2007: Scholastic, USA publishers of the Harry Potter series, have announced a 12 million copy first print run of the final volume, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which will require 22 million pounds of paper. In collaboration with the Rainforest Alliance, 65% of all ...

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