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Amazon UK paid only £2.4m tax on £4bn sales last year
www.guardian.co.uk

Amazon's UK subsidiary paid £2.4m in corporate taxes last year on sales of £4.3bn - a rate of less than 0.1%

Microsoft Mulling Nook Media LLC Purchase For $1 Billion
techcrunch.com

Natural next step for Microsoft?

Bookshops Face Pricing Hell Over Dan Brown's Inferno
www.standard.co.uk

Independent bookstores have hit out at retail giants that are selling Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown's new novel, Inferno, for less than half the recommended price

Sales Of Kobo And Amazon Kindle Lead To E-Reader Success Story
www.independent.co.uk

8m in UK own one - despite competition from Apple iPad

Trade Announcements

Stockholm Text: Now With U.S. Distribution

Jenny Colgan Wins Romantic Novel Of The Year

Memoir : Chen Guangcheng

The Wellcome Trust Book Prize Returns

In The Flesh Erotic Reading Night Relaunches In London

Unique Take On The Tales Of The Mabinogi Wins Major Award

Charities Link To Promote Reading In Prisons And Combat Re-offending

Bookaboo, CITV And The TES Search For Book-loving School To Star In Show!

The Palestine Festival Of Literature 2013

CLA Comment On New Orphan Works Provisions

Pre-emptive German Deal For Fantasy Trilogy

Bitter Lemon Press Acquires Crime Novel Set Against The Heady Backdrop Of Bangalore

Eeny Meeny Catches Big Translation Sales

Orion Children's Books Acquire Debut Nigel Quinlan's Nothing To Do With Leaves

Abrams & Chronicle Books Announces New Managing Director

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Opinion

'Unbundling' In The Book Business: The Fourth Big Trend
www.idealog.com

It could be said that publishers themselves began the unbundling process

Don't Make Fun Of Renowned Dan Brown
www.telegraph.co.uk

The snobs and critics will have a field day with the US author's latest work

Women Love Erotica. They Always Have And Always Will
www.telegraph.co.uk

What has the literary world learned from the blockbuster that was Fifty Shades of Grey?

YA Books Need To Reflect Our Diverse Society
www.telegraph.co.uk

YA (Young Adult) novelist Tanya Byrne believes there is room for more books about teenagers of colour in the modern world

Feature Items

From Suffolk book plant to British readers but will novel generate UK tax?
www.guardian.co.uk

Journey of new novel shows how book printed and published in Britain – and bought on Amazon – is taxed in Luxembourg

The Wild World Of Hindi Pulp Fiction
publishingperspectives.com

The glorious world of Hindi pulp fiction may be coming to a close, as the internet, satellite tv and sagging sales take their toll

When Celebrities Take Over Publishing Companies ...
www.newrepublic.com

Every age gets the publishing industry it deserves

Publisher Complaints Against Amazon Becoming Pervasive
publishingperspectives.com

Concerns over term demands, territorial rights and sourcing

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