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Latest News

£2m Share Sell-off By Chief Executive Has WH Smith Sliding
www.thisislondon.co.uk

Raising capital to buy herself more property, according to a company spokesperson

Amazon's Profit Drops 57% As Heavy Spending Continues
online.wsj.com

Operating expenses rose 38%

B&N to ink first overseas Nook deal with Waterstones?
www.crainsnewyork.com

Barnes & Noble is developing a partnership with U.K.'s Waterstones Booksellers Ltd. to sell the digital tablet in its 300 locations this year

Costa Prize: Andrew Miller Takes Award For Novel Pure
www.bbc.co.uk

Andrew Miller has won the £30,000 Costa Book of the Year Award for his novel Pure, set in a Parisian cemetery in the run up to the French revolution

Trade Announcements

Bestselling Shortlist Of 10 For Blue Peter's Vote For 'The Best Children's Book of the Last 10 Years'

Doubleday Ireland To Publish Little Beauty By Alison Jameson

Unpublished Ingrid Pitt Novels To Be Released By Avalard

Digital Innovators Lined Up For LBF Digital Minds Conference

Gollancz Signs Debut SF Novel From Mitch Benn

JBW Appoints New Director

Mark Todd Autobiography To Orion

PPC Annual Awards 2011 Shortlist

Juliette van Wersch Promoted At A.W. Bruna Fiction

The Center For Fiction & The American Booksellers Association Announce A Partnership

Rukhsana Yasmin To Join New Saqi Imprint The Westbourne Press

Bonnier Publishing Recruits Group Sales Force In The UK

'Intoxicating' Debut Novel Inspired By Silent Film To Serpent's Tail

The London Book Fair Announces New Non-executive Chairman As Simon Master Steps Down

Bob McDevitt Joining Jenny Brown Associates

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Opinion

The self-epublishing bubble
www.guardian.co.uk

All of this ebook talk is becoming a business in itself

We Should All Be In The Publishing Conference Business
www.futurebook.net

With 1500 attendees paying up to $1495 per person to be at DBW there is still money in publishing somewhere

Hard Done By? About Apple's Ibooks Author EULA
www.loopinsight.com

Use Apple's tools, sell your product, and give Apple the money it deserves for providing you with a way to make and sell it

Apple's Evil Sabotage
copyfight.corante.com

Still think using iBooks is a good idea?

Books in the Media

Parenting Guru Bryan Caplan Prescribes Less Fuss – And More Fun
www.guardian.co.uk

Economist Bryan Caplan argues that nurture counts for so little that parents can 'cut themselves a lot of slack'

Sir Patrick Moore: In Tune With Music Of The Spheres
www.independent.co.uk

He played piano with Einstein and counts rock icons among his friends. But for Britain's best-loved astronomer, the stars in the sky are all that matter

Obituaries

Peter Burton
www.independent.co.uk

Writer and publisher who championed gay literature for over 35 years

Michael Legat
www.booktrade.info

And what, asked Michael, do they do in publishing? "They read books and go to cocktail parties," said the Careers Master, which sounded like just the sort of thing Michael had in mind.

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Feature Items

It's Good To Be Back
www.danutakean.com

This flat earth journalism helped create a sense that digital distribution of books had finally tipped over

A Brief History Of Blurbs
www.themillions.com

The excesses and scandals of contemporary blurbing, book and otherwise, are well-documented

The Link Between Metadata And Sales
www.nielsenbookdata.co.uk

Nielsen has released the results of its findings in a White Paper: The Link Between Metadata and Sales

Top Self-published Kindle Ebooks Of 2011
ebookfriendly.com

Average price of a self-published book in 2011 was $1.40, vs. $8.26 for all books in Top 100

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