Book Report: 'The Help' author sued by her brother's maid

1. Borders files for bankruptcy. The bookseller will close 200 stores. Starting last week, the 200 stores began liquidating $350 million in inventory. 2. Apple iTunes offers new subscription model for newspapers, magazines, music. The policy deems that content providers will need to give Apple 30 percent of all purchases sold. Now the Justice Department has taken an interest in looking at whether Apple's new subscription policy is violating antitrust laws by forcing all media companies' customers into one payment system, reports the Wall Street Journal. 3. "The Help" author Kathryn Stockett is being sued by her brother's maid. Sixty-year-old Ablene Cooper has sued Stockett, alleging that she used her name and image as the basis for the novel's Aibileen Clark, an African-American maid. Clark wants $75,000 in damages.

Just shelved:

"When the Killing's Done" by T.C. Boyle (Hardcover): Boyle's latest is about an increasingly heated conflict between a National Park Service biologist and a local business owner over the fate of the Channel Islands ecosystem.

"The Triumph of the City" by Edward Glaeser (Hardcover): A Gladwell-ian look at what makes cities successful and innovative.

"The Paris Wife: A Novel" by Paula McLain (Hardcover): A fictionalized account of Hadley Richardson Hemingway, Ernest's oft-ignored-by-history wife. The book relegates the great macho author to the back of the story and spotlights Hadley's myriad experiences in 1920s Paris.

source. http://journalstar.com/entertainment/arts-and-culture/books/article_4989d05e-2f98-54c8-9a4a-097b317872e2.html