<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ac4daad2-137d-48b5-9daa-5ca05fc33d73/06CC4A91-FA73-4A7A-A0D5-84479E71F28E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.proposalwritingnews.com/2008/05/barnes-noble-buying-borders-does-it.html" href="http://www.proposalwritingnews.com/2008/05/barnes-noble-buying-borders-does-it.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.proposalwritingnews.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.proposalwritingnews.com/2008/05/barnes-noble-buying-borders-does-it.html"><P><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">I was reading my </SPAN></SPAN><A target="blank" href="http://www.writersmarket.com/Default.aspx"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">Writer's Market</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></A><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"> newsletter, when I read this story and couldn't believe it:</SPAN></SPAN></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.proposalwritingnews.com/2008/05/barnes-noble-buying-borders-does-it.html"><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><STRONG><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><A href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">Barnes & Noble</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></A><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"> may buy </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.borders.com"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">Borders</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></A><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">:</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></STRONG><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"> Mega-bookseller Barnes & Noble is considering buying its top competitor, Borders Group. Investors, however, are wondering whether antitrust issues would allow the deal to go through.</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><BR /></SPAN></SPAN></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.proposalwritingnews.com/2008/05/barnes-noble-buying-borders-does-it.html"><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">It was a very good question that was raised.  Will this be considered an </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antitrust"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">antitrust</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></A><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"> issue?  We have read, or I hope, the problems that arose with </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.xmradio.com/"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">XM</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></A><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"> and </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.sirius.com/"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">Sirius</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></A><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"> trying to merge.  It's kind of the same thing.  At least we could say that XM and Sirius have valid arguments that might sway you to think that it isn't really an issue, but what can Barnes & Noble say?  The only other bookseller around is <A href="http://www.booksamillion.com/ncom/books?redirect=1">Books-A-Million</A>, and they definitely aren't competition for Borders and Barnes & Noble as it stands.  </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/06CC4A91-FA73-4A7A-A0D5-84479E71F28E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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