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In case you didn't break the piggy bank shelling out for a D.C. hotel and all those inaugural ball tickets, how about picking up $200 worth of commemorative inauguration coins? QVC will be selling their merchandise, including a $36 Obama throw blanket and an Obama pocket watch for $90, in D.C. on the weekend of Barack Obama's presidency, and will even be hosting a live broadcast from the Creative Coalition's inaugural ball. No better way to spend your money, except maybe on anything else.

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Scribner released the details on how much the Simon & Schuster branch paid for Laura Bush's memoir. The final tally? A cool $1.6 million, although a source says "it may have been higher than that."

Of course, that's peanuts compared to ex-First Lady, soon to be Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made for her book, Living History, in 2003. Which was also bought by Simon & Schuster, coincidentally. Ouch.

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After handing TVGuide the magazine over to private equity firm OpenGate for $1 (plus $100 million in assumed subscriber liabilities), the brand's latest owner Macrovision at least unloaded the TV Guide television network and TVGuide.com website to new hands, reports Bloomberg. The happy parents? Movie production house Lions Gate Entertainment (you know them for their Saw flicks). The selling price: $255 million, which is all the more interesting because Macrovision initially planned to sell its last two properties to former Dick Clark Productions owner Allen Shapiro. But didn't.

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