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Kinfolk Magazine has gained a foothold with the design-foodie elite for its elegant white pages showing dreamy young people doing earthy things.

The rising cost of doing business in Manhattan is driving out many of its remaining bookstores, threatening the city’s sense of self as the center of the literary universe.

G Asset Management, a little-known investment firm, offered on Thursday to acquire 51 percent of Barnes & Noble in a deal that would value the bookseller’s shares at $22 apiece.

So you bought a Betamax VCR? And also a Nook? Here’s a strategy to avoid betting on the wrong horse again.

Sylvia Day, the author of the “Crossfire” series of romance novels, will receive a substantial sum from St. Martin’s Press for her next two books.

The appointment of Michael P. Huseby fills a post vacant since July at a time when the chain is struggling to find its footing.

Sales were hurt by the Nook division, where revenue fell 32 percent, to $109 million.

The new device comes as the bookseller, the nation’s largest bookstore chain, continues to face questions about its long-term viability.

Laurence Kirshbaum also worked at Random House and eventually became the chairman and chief executive of the Time Warner Book Group.

The move raises further questions about the bookseller’s future amid its previously announced plans to stop making its Nook line of tablets.