• Vidgame retailer GameStop bids for 400 Woolies stores (Reuters)
• November retail sales take a hard dive (Bloomberg)
• Weakest ad market since 2001 (AdAge)
• J.K. Rowling’s new book hits the shelves (Associated Press)
• Yahoo!’s top 10 searches in 2008 include Miley and…Naruto? (Entertainment Weekly)
• Warner Bros. to bring The Dark Knight back to the big screen in January (Variety)
• Popular Twilight tours booked into the new year in small town Forks, Washington (L.A. Times)
• It’s official, US in recession – let the bargain-hunting begin (Forbes)
• Sears posts loss, plans store closures (Reuters)
&bull: Viacom, Redstone sell stake in video game publisher (The New York Times)
• Widgets the Holy Grail of online marketing? (AdAge)
• …Well, they’re certainly working in the kidspace &bull (KidScreen)
• Mass media exposure harms kids? (USA Today)
• Borders posts Q3 loss and revenue drop (Wall Street Journal)
• BBC Worldwide to snap up 2Entertain from faltering Woolies (Bloomberg)
• Showbiz braces for a rough holiday (Variety)
• US online sales suffer in November (AdAge)
• A rundown on toy retail trends heading into the holiday home stretch (The Motley Fool)
• Mothers sacrifice own spending to buy gifts for kids (New York Times)
• Lawmakers want chemical-laden toys off the shelves (USA Today)
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