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Microsoft is paying $300 million for a minority stake in the digital reader business of Barnes & Noble, which sells the Nook e-book. The pairing could boost Barnes & Noble in its quest to take on Amazon's Kindle. (Barnes & Noble via Associated Press)

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Barnes & Noble's Nook electronic reader now accounts for 28 percent of the market for those devices. It has the potential to go beyond books to deliver all types of digital products, including music, magazines, TV shows and movies. Cable television mogul John Malone is offering $1 billion to buy the bookstore chain. (Associated Press)

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Sarah Palin greets fans and supporters as she signs her book "America by Heart," during a book signing event at a Barnes & Noble store on Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ralph Freso)

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FILE - In this Oct. 13, 2010 file photo, actor Russell Brand appears at a book signing for his memoir "My Booky Wook 2" at Barnes & Noble in New York. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, file)

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** FILE ** In this Feb. 9, 2010 file photo, a customer reads a Nook electronic reader at a Barnes & Noble book store in Hackensack, N.J. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file)