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...sound like a reporter the way you do research for these books. What did you do for this one? There was a great deal of legal research involved because it does center around a lawsuit, but I also had the opportunity to spend a lot of time with families that have children who have OI. I would follow these kids around all day. I would go to school with them. I'd go to physical therapy with them. I remember at one home the mom said, "Will you take Matthew out of the car?" I was like, sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Author Jodi Picoult | 3/3/2009 | See Source »

When you think of Prince, do you expect to get more and pay less? Probably not, but that hasn't prevented Target, the 1,677-store discount chain, from striking a deal with his royal funkiness to be the exclusive retail outlet for Prince's new three-disc set. The Prince collection features two predictably tough-to-spell-check original studio albums, LOtUSFLOW3R and MPLSoUND, and a third record, Elixer, which will introduce the world to Bria Valente, the next in the long line of purple prot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prince and Target: A Match Made in Discount Heaven | 3/3/2009 | See Source »

...Each benefited from massive in-store promotion and stop-the-cart placement - AC/DC's Black Ice sold 1.92 million copies to rank as the fifth best-selling album of 2008. Paul McCartney also saw some of the best sales of his solo career when he struck a less exclusive deal with Starbucks and its record arm, Hear Music. (See the best and worst Grammy performances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prince and Target: A Match Made in Discount Heaven | 3/3/2009 | See Source »

...While no one on the music or retailing sides is desperate to reveal the price tag of an exclusive-rights deal, several sources indicate that bands have received in the mid-six figures to fork over their music and participate in promotion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prince and Target: A Match Made in Discount Heaven | 3/3/2009 | See Source »

...however, been selective. The United States was conspicuously absent from its global shopping itinerary. The last major Chinese bid to buy a U.S. company ended in diplomatic disaster, when the China National Offshore Oil Corp. or CNOOC offered to buy the California oil company Unocal in 2005, in a deal worth about $18.5 billion, and a backlash in Congress prompted the angry Chinese to withdraw the offer. Unocal was finally sold to Chevron. More recent Chinese investments in the U.S. have also fared badly: Beijing has lost billions in recent months from investments in Morgan Stanley and the Blackstone Group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Goes on a Smart Shopping Spree | 3/2/2009 | See Source »

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