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Insider guide to the antiques trade

How To Deal in Antiques, by TV and radio antiques expert Fiona Shoop, is now in its fourth edition. In this simple, step-by-step guide, Fiona explains how to save money when buying antiques and how to make a profit when you sell. She introduces different types of dealing, from fairs to the Internet. If you love antiques and enjoy buying and selling them as a profitable career or hobby, you’ll need to know exactly what you’re doing to maximise ... [more]

Books Are Dead. Long Live Books! (The Motley Fool)

New technology could keep paper books alive, despite digital disruption.

New Comic Auction Site Launches As Comic Books Set Record Prices (PRWeb)

Just as prices for collectible comics are rocketing to new highs with the sales of two comic books for $1 million each, longtime comic collector and roleplaying-game trailblazer Stewart Wieck unveiled a new comic-auction site called GetSlabbed.com. (PRWeb Mar 9, 2010) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/03/prweb3698894.htm

New Comic Auction Site Launches As Comic Books Set Record Prices (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)

Google's digital library faces key hurdles (San Jose Mercury News)

Google's ambitious plans to create a vast digital library of millions of old books may hinge on the resolution of three key issues now being considered by a federal judge in New York.

General Growth gets offer of $3.93B investment (MalaysiaNews.net)

CHICAGO -- Shopping mall operator General Growth Properties says two of its creditors have offered to invest $3.93 billion in the company to help it emerge from bankruptcy protection.General Growth s...

After Financial Ruin, Plotting America's 'Comeback' (NPR)

David M. Walker is the former comptroller general of the United States. His book, Comeback America, details the current financial crisis and offers his ideas on controlling spending and restoring fiscal responsibility in the United States.

Order books weigh down shipping (Zawya)

Shipping companies in the Middle East account for approximately $3 billion (Dh11bn) worth of orders, release of which will further affect the shipping industry, a senior industry official has warned.

Getting Others Started On Comics Vol. 2 (IGN Comics)

The latest Getting Others Into Comics focuses on the most elusive of demographics - females. Many of you wrote into us asking how you can get your significant others reading books. We have some ideas and strategies for you to try. Hopefully they work!

General Growth gets offer of $3.93B investment (AP via Yahoo! News)

Two major investors in General Growth Properties are joining Brookfield Asset Management in offering to inject a combined $6.5 billion in fresh funds into the shopping mall operator to help it emerge from bankruptcy protection.

Ackman puts cash into General Growth (Chicago Tribune)

Associated Press | Two major investors in General Growth Properties are joining Brookfield Asset Management in offering to inject a combined $6.5 billion in fresh funds into the shopping mall operator to help it emerge from bankruptcy protection.