The global financial crisis has some people looking in books for answers and the biggest economic calamity in decades is boosting sales of everything from books about the world’s richest man to page-turning thrillers.
Borders Group Inc (BGP.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz), the second largest U.S. bookseller, and Amazon AMZN.O., the world’s largest Web retailer, both said they had seen a recent trend toward finance books, from biographies of key players to books about past financial crises.
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