Borders stores in UK shelve Tintin book
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Borders is removing "Tintin in the Congo" from the children's section of its British stores, after a customer complained the comic work was racist, the company said Thursday.
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The book retailer looks a little pricey at the moment.
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A US chain will not stock a Tintin book in its children's section over concerns about its "racist" content.
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Borders Group Inc. (BGP.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , the No. 2 US bookseller, on Tuesday said quarterly earnings rose, beating estimates by the company and Wall Street, largely because of stronger-than-expected book sales.
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Asda Supermarket in the UK dropped the price of the new Harry Potter book from Â£8.87 to Â£5, the same price as rival chains. To prevent people from buying in bulk, they will limit customers to two copies. Asda wants to make sure children will be able to...
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The final book about boy wizard Harry  Potter broke a single-day record at Borders Group Inc. ,  selling about 1.2 million copies worldwide.
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The final book about boy wizard Harry Potter broke a single-day record at Borders Group Inc., selling about 1.2 million copies worldwide.
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The book retailing superstore has new stories worth telling.
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"These initiatives will help underpin the long-term success of the business between 2008-2012"  The final installment of the Harry Potter series is on track to break previous sales records as its British publisher, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, revealed Thursday that export orders are already 17 percent ... via KCBY-TV Coos Bay
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Travel: Shoppers love Paris, but a spree in the fashion capital can be hard on the wallet. Lennox Morrison finds out where real Parisian designers go to buy top labels at a fraction of the cost.
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Fans were eagerly queuing up outside bookstores across Britain Friday to get hold of their copy of &quot;Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows&quot; amid a transatlantic storm over leaked material from the novel.
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No 2. US book retailer Borders Group Inc. (BGP.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Tuesday posted a quarterly loss versus a year-ago profit, hurt by sluggish store traffic and a slowdown in sales of bestsellers.
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'Lingo-lean staff to get word-savvy' Tesco has issued old timers working at some of its 1,500 stores with a handy guide to the kind of English guaranteed to have Middle England choking on its cocoa - that favoured by hoodies, wannabe homies, and anyone under 21 who considers the baseball cap to be the US's greatest contribution to English street culture.â¦
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QUEDLINBURG, Germany  - The Christmas market in this medieval German town could be off a page in a children's picture book.
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Comic book hero Tintin has finally made it to Australia, with the company which controls the use of his image giving a Sydney artist the go-ahead to use the Belgian character in political cartoons.
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BRITAIN'S biggest supermarket are cutting the amount of space in their stores devoted to DVDs.  Tesco say their move is a result of the rise in the number of films being downloaded from the internet and accessed via satellite and cable TV.
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A book of fairy tales created, handwritten and illustrated by J.K. Rowling sold for nearly $4 million at auction Thursday. The buyer, Web retailer Amazon.com Inc., now owns one of only seven copies of "The Tales of Beedle the Bard," which is leather bound with silver mounts.