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Some of Melbourne's independent booksellers tell Jason Steger that the reason behind the failure of REDgroup (owners of Borders and Angus & Robertson) was a poor business model.
A column canvassing current literary news including reports on 'lay offs' at Penguin in Camberwell, Victoria and on the shortlists for the 2011 Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Jason Steger also notes the decision by Finch to not award the Finch Memoir Prize in 2011; the judges stated that 'while several of the shortlisted manuscripts successfully met some of their criteria, none fulfilled them all'.