Borders Books and Music Hosts Author Dave Barry, Local Literacy Organization to Receive Portion of Sales.Business Editors MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 6, 2002 The Borders Books and Music(R) store at 8811 SW 107th Ave. in Miami, will host Dave Barry For the English musician, see . David Barry, Jr. (born July 3, 1947) is a bestselling American author and Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist who wrote a nationally syndicated column for the The Miami Herald from 1983 to 2005. , best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for "The Miami Herald", for a signing of his latest book "Tricky Business" at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 8, 2002. Mr. Barry's appearance will coincide with a "Benefit Day" for the Florida chapter of literacy non-profit organization A non-profit organization (abbreviated "NPO", also "non-profit" or "not-for-profit") is a legally constituted organization whose primary objective is to support or to actively engage in activities of public or private interest without any commercial or monetary profit purposes. Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic dys·lex·ic or dys·lec·tic adj. Of or relating to dyslexia. n. A person affected by dyslexia. "Learning Through Listening." "Borders is pleased to donate a portion of the evening's sales to Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic," said Chris Reid, general manager of the Kendall Borders store. "Dave Barry's book signing will be fun for our customers, and we appreciate his support in furthering local literacy." The Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic "Learning Through Listening" Florida unit is a volunteer-based organization that records books and provides services for people who cannot effectively read standard print because of a visual, perceptual or other physical disability. The group has been in existence for more than 40 years. Borders Group, Inc., (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) The routing protocol that is used to span autonomous systems on the Internet. It is a robust, sophisticated and scalable protocol that was developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). ) is a leading global retailer of books, music, video and other information and entertainment items with stores in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. , Singapore, and the commonwealth of Puerto Rico. A FORTUNE 500 company headquartered in Ann Arbor, Mich., Borders Group employs 32,000 worldwide and operates over 390 Borders domestic superstores, 29 international Borders stores, 37 Books etc. locations and approximately 800 Waldenbooks stores. Teamed with Amazon.com, the company also offers online shopping through Borders.com (www.borders.com). More detailed information for journalists is available at www.bgimediacenter.com. Financial data is hosted on www.bordersgroupinc.com and information on Borders stores is available through www.bordersstores.com. |
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