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Book Details Talks About Replacing Biden: President Obama’s top aides secretly considered replacing Vice President Joe Biden with Hillary Clinton on the 2012 ticket, undertaking extensive focus-group sessions and polling in late 2011 when Mr. Obama’s re-election outlook appeared uncertain, according to Mark Halperin and John Heilemann's new book, Double Down.

Finally Found Books Finds New Home : Finally Found Books co-owners Jill Sena and Todd Hulbert have found a new home for their large bookstore in Auburn, Wash. The bookstore has one of the largest collections of books in the area.

John Wiley & Sons Sues Politician : Ralph M. Mohr, the Republican commissioner on the Erie County Board of Elections, is the sole remaining defendant in a civil suit brought by the publisher of the For Dummies series, who contend that Mohr illegally downloaded a single copy of Calculus Essentials for Dummies and then distributed it using peer-to-peer file-sharing technology.

Rowling Denies Being Inspired by Tusk: J.K. Rowling says the fact that the 130-year-old whale tusk was engraved with the name Cornelius Fudge, a character in Harry Potter, was a coincidence.

No 'Quiet Time' Hits Children's Reading: Children as young as eight years old are being turned off reading because of a lack of “quiet time” in childhood, combined with greater access to digital resources from a young age, according to the latest Reading Street report from Egmont, entitled Reading and the Digital World.