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03 September 2010

Barnes & Noble's Inc litigation

The Delaware Court of Chancery in August rejected Burkle's claim that the company's "poison pill" limiting any one shareholder's stake to 20 percent was unfair.
Burkle, whose Yucaipa Cos. has a 19 percent stake in the company, has criticized Barnes & Noble's management and said the shareholder rights plan unfairly favors chairman Leonard Riggio and his family.
Burkle nominated three members to Barnes & Noble's board of directors, initiating a proxy fight after the suit was dismisse....

03 September 2010

The Dan Brown ‘s popular is ended


It isn’t easy to save popularity when you was followed by Swedish author Stieg Larsson, who penned the Millennium trilogy, and big screen favourites JK Rowling and Stephenie Meyer, responsible for the Harry Potter and Twilight series.
Meanwhile, Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson became the first non-fiction author to make the annual survey's top 10 most donated list, at number eight.
Oxfam's best-selling author Ian Rankin said: ''It's great to be Oxfam's most purchased a....

03 September 2010

It isn’t hard to write novel, when it is based your life

"It just started out of my life, what was happening to me," the 27-year-old author says of "Richard Yates," a novel about a young New York writer and the New Jersey teen he meets online. "Usually, if something is notable to me in my life, I'll write about it and use it later for fiction."
Much about Lin seems true and not true, a question mark and exclamation point. The author lives in a gated apartment house in Brooklyn that has a "Beware of Dog" sign out front, even though there is no d....

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