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		<title><![CDATA[New eBook Service Kobo Launches, Raises $16 Million From Borders, Others]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Add another entrant to the white-hot eBook market ... Kobo, a startup backed by Borders. After all, Borders can&#8217;t afford to let Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) and Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN) gobble up all the market share this early in the game. Newly-launched Kobo has spun off from parent...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:25:05 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Kobo raises USD16m to power Borders e-books]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Kobo has raised USD16m from investors including Borders Group and will now operate an e-book store for Borders. Kobo provides an e-book store and app, available on mobile handsets including the iPhone, Android handsets, BlackBerrys and the Palm Pre. by Editorial]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:16:22 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[PwC: 1,025 UK Media, Entertainment Companies Folded In Last Two Years]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The media industry goes into 2010 with a sense of cautious optimism, but there&#8217;s no hiding the casualties that were left behind in 2009. According to PricewaterhouseCoopesr, there were 1,025 media and entertainment company insolvencies in the two years to the end of Q309. We&#8217;ve reported on a whole...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:17:21 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Amazon eyeing pick-up stores]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amazon.com is looking to bricks and mortar stores to expand its offering. The etailer has begun scouring the UK for sites to open ?click and collect? stores. The move is allegedly in response to Amazon.com?s expansion away from books, CDs and other easily delivered items. The plan is not entirely...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:51:54 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Conflict of interest setback to Borders administration]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[25 November, 2009 | Updated: 26 November, 2009 1:40 pm | By Lisa Berwin, George MacDonald Updated: The administration of bookseller Borders has been delayed after it emerged there was a conflict of interest on the part of proposed administrator BDO. The retailer, which filed notice of intent to appoint...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:54:10 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Borders UK administration imminent]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[25 November, 2009 | By Lisa Berwin Borders UK is understood to be close to administration after the failure of attempts to sell the business. Sources close to the situation told Retail Week that the bookseller is teetering on the brink of collapse and could be put into administration as...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:10:39 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[EReaders, price war weigh on Barnes, Borders]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Phil Wahba NEW YORK (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=Reuters">Reuters</a>) - Top U.S. booksellers Barnes & Noble Inc (BKS.N) and Borders Group Inc (BGP.N) will pay a price for coming late to market with electronic book readers, analysts said. Barnes & Noble cut its full-year earnings forecast on Tuesday on expectations of a tough...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:45:12 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Report: Apple testing RFID swipe support in iPhone prototypes]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Prince McLeanPublished: 05:00 PM EST Related AppleInsider articles:Exclusive look at Apple's new iPod touch-based...Apple filings detail ID app, other potential...Apple's next-gen iPhone may add radio tagging,...Bluetooth 3.0 arrives with promise of...Apple awarded key "multi-touch" patent...A site focused on Near Field Communications has reported that Apple has built new iPhone...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:27:10 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Overstock.com Inc. Q3 2009 Earnings Conference Call]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions. We'll pause for just a moment to compile the Q&A roster. Your first question comes from [Brent Ryerson] of inaudible & Company.   Unidentified Analyst Couple of quick questions for you. Any thoughts that you want to offer us on the book pricing war...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:07:07 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Barnes & Noble Won't Sell Nook To Go In All Stores]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Its 700-plus U.S. stores should give Barnes & Noble an edge in the contest for e-reader dollars but many won&#8217;t be selling the actual Nook on site. Instead, I was told as a customer, the booksellers will order a device for in-store customers from the BN.com website to be...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Barnes & Noble e-reader to debut Tuesday]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK - Barnes & Noble Inc. is expected to unveil an electronic-book reader Tuesday to compete with Amazon.com's Kindle in the still-small arena where some see bookselling's future heading. The New York Times reported that the wireless reader will be called the "Nook" and sell for $259 — the...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[VisiCalc turns 30 and SocialCalc turns 1.0]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to my notebook from 1979, 30 years ago today Dan Fylstra, head of Personal Software, our Bay Area publisher, told me that he had the first production VisiCalc packages in hand. I received mine the next day Saturday delivery. So today, for argument's sake, is the 30th anniversary of...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Book wars! Wal-Mart, Amazon slash costs]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHICAGO - Taking a page from its original playbook, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. launched a full-fledged price war with Amazon.com Inc. and a nation of book retailers, lowering prices on certain highly anticipated hardback titles to $9. The volley of discounts, which began Thursday when the retailer listed prices for some...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Rupert Murdoch In Beijing: 'The Philistine Phase Of The Digital Age Is Almost Over']]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ News Corp (NYSE: NWS) Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch took to the stage at the World Media Summit in Beijing Friday to quote a little Confucius and paint his version of the digital future for his Chinese hosts. Murdoch&#8217;s endeavors in China have met with mixed success and some...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mock-up pic via GizmodoThe Apple rumour mill always goes into highest gear just before another Apple Event and the next one is coming up in San Francisco in a couple of weeks. Much of the speculation has been about a tablet-style computing device that Apple is said to have been...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ten ways to keep students solvent]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/financial-services/news-analysis/ways-students-solvent/8835/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[STUDENTS bound for university after their A-level results last week have been warned that banks are likely to take a tougher stance on interest-free overdrafts. More than 300,000 received their A-level results on Thursday, with a record 26.7% earning the top A grade, and while banks generally fall over themselves...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 20:14:40 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[More on News Corp's Charging-For-News Consortium Obsession]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fpaidcontent.org%2Farticle%2F419-more-on-news-corps-charging-for-news-consortium-obsession%2F&siteid=23&tag=contentnext]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[ News Corp (NYSE: NWS) has hinted at it in bits and pieces over the last six months, but now Dawn&#8217;s reporting in LAT that he has been meeting with various media companies, in an effort to &#8220;develop a forming a consortium that would charge for news distributed online and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:42:07 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Borders survey presumes a future 'iPAD' e-reader]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/technology/news-analysis/borders-survey-presumes-ipad-reader/7791/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[A Borders customer survey asks about a mystery Apple iPAD large-screen reading device.(Credit: Borders/Screenshot by Michelle Meyers/CNET)There are a gagillion rumors swirling out there about a forthcoming Apple tablet of some sort. And while we certainly don't feel the need to point you to each and every supposed leaked photo...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:19 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[More Competition on the E-Book Front]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/technology/10003072/more-competition-on-the-e-book-front/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Although a number of companies, including Sony, have been in the e-book reader business for a while, Amazon really seems to have taken the category by storm, at least in terms of buzz, even though Sony has been moving a fair number of units -- witness the Forrester report that...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:41:04 -0700</pubDate>
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		<category domain="http://resources.bnet.com/topic/erik+sherman.html"><![CDATA[Erik Sherman]]></category>
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