Borders UK filed for "administration" (the UK equivalent of bankruptcy) last week, with the firm MCR overseeing the process after another company, BDO,...
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Instore chaos as Borders UK files for bankruptcy
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Monday, November 30, 2009 | 11:12 AM
Palin memoir number one
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Thursday, November 26, 2009 | 10:37 AM
Good lord, she is going to earn out that massive advance.Sarah Palin's Going Rogue will be Number One on the New York Times bestsellers chart this week.Dave...
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MS of A CHRISTMAS CAROL on display
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Wednesday, November 25, 2009 | 12:39 PM
The messy, rushed manuscript of the beloved Dickens morality tale, A Christmas Carol, is on display at the Morgan Library and Museum, reports Claire Prentice...
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Borders UK doomed?
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Monday, November 23, 2009 | 11:10 AM
Or so says the Bookseller Magazine, echoed by Publishers Lunch.Concerns about the fate of Borders UK rose over the past few days, as the Times declared...
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No Oprah book club?
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Thursday, November 19, 2009 | 4:33 PM
Media mogul Oprah Winfrey to end her show. It has just been announced. The iconic talk show will end in 2011, at the finish of the 25th season -- which...
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Bestselling Call Girl Lowers the Veil
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 | 12:39 PM
"Belle de Jour" drops her anonymityDr. Brooke Magnanti, a former call girl who published her memoirs as Secret Diary of a Call Girl, has revealed her...
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Andy Warhol's Little Red Hen for Sale
Children's book illustrations by Andy Warhol are to be auctioned in New York next month. The artist, who became famous for his pop art creations, including...
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BLUE MONDAY
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Sunday, November 15, 2009 | 10:39 AM
Occasionally research turns up the most wonderful tidbits of information. Unfortunately, those tidbits are usually irrelevant to the actual topic, but...
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Canada's Giller Prize won by priest abuse novel
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Friday, November 13, 2009 | 11:18 AM
Linden MacIntyre, an investigative journalist who works for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, is the author of a novel about sex abuse scandals in...
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Kindle for your PC
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 | 11:24 AM
More digital news -- Amazon has launched their Kindle for PC application, and promises a Mac version coming soon. It ties in to the launch of Windows...
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Romance goes digital
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Monday, November 9, 2009 | 11:38 AM
Is this a chance to express your romantic voice?Harlequin has announced the launch of Carina Press, a digital-only publishing house that will sell directly...
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Jane Austen's letters on show
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Friday, November 6, 2009 | 11:36 AM
A major Jane Austen exhibition has opened in New York.Claire Prentice, reporting for the BBC, relates that over a hundred items, including rare letters...
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Design Your Own Envelope
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Tuesday, November 3, 2009 | 11:12 AM
Design your own envelope --If you are famous, that is.The Pitney Bowes Pushing the Envelope campaign is an annual event where celebrities are invited...
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Lifeboat survivor's diary retrieved
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Sunday, November 1, 2009 | 11:34 AM
This evocative WW2 photo shows the last throes of the freighter SS Rhexenor, which was sunk by a German U-boat in the middle of the Atlantic on February...
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