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Book Trade News
Behold: How Amazon Wins The Sales Tax Wars Even When It Loses What's really behind Amazon's tax war
At Hearing, Judge Says She Is Leaning Against Apple Government will likely be able to prove Apple's guilt in coordinating a conspiracy to raise e-book prices
Salt Abandons Single-author Collections Amid Poetry Market Slump Publisher says these books are 'no longer viable' as sales drop by more than a quarter
Kindle Fire Now Available For Pre-order In 170 Countries Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Fire HD 8.9" Now Available for Pre-Order for Customers in over 170 Countries Around the World, Shipping June 13
Breakthrough Breast Cancer Launches New Reading Campaign With Penguin And WH Smith Penguin and WHS partner on charity summer reading campaign
Amazon: Victim Or Aggressor? Issue Will Frame Apple Ebook Trial Recent court filings show that Amazon will play a large role in determining the outcome
Manila Less Than Thrilled At Dan Brown's Inferno City chairman lodges protest with author over his description of Philippines capital as 'the gates of hell' in latest novel
Chinua Achebe: Nigeria Holds Funeral For Author Thousands at author Achebe's funeral
Borders Gift Card Holders To Get Nothing Judge: Unredeemed Borders Gift Cards Are Worthless
Libraries Must Remain Community Hubs Arts Council England: Public libraries will have to cope with technological advances yet remain the hubs of community life
Pearson Shakes Up Management Amid Restructure Will restructure its top management to focus on core educational categories and geographies
Stephen Brumwell Wins George Washington Book Prize The British are coming! And winning.
Orbit Head Revolves Back To London Tim Holman, who moved to New York from London in 2006 to help set up Orbit in the U.S., is returning to London
Cashflow crisis hits MPG Printgroup Trading status of book and journal printer MPG Printgroup is unclear
Desmond Elliott Prize Shortlist Announced Just three books remain in contention for the £10,000 prize, including one written entirely in verse
Another Plagiarism Scandal Hits Poetry Community David R Morgan admits to passing numerous works by other people as his own and says he is 'truly sorry'
The Beatles' Lyrics Manuscripts And Other Fab Four Rarities Donated To British Library Under New Scheme The manuscripts and other Beatles rarities were donated to the Library by Hunter Davies, The Beatles' biographer, under the new Cultural Gifts Scheme
Amazon Publishing Introduces Kindle Worlds: A New Model For Fan Fiction Will enable any writer to create fan fiction based on a range of original stories
Penguin Settles State E-book Pricing Suits For $75m Will Avoid Trial
UK Retail Sales Slump Shoppers balk at higher prices and cold weather
Man Booker International Prize Goes To Lydia Davis American writer Lydia Davis has been awarded the Man Booker International prize for her "achievement in fiction on the world stage"
Winners Of The 2013 British Sports Book Awards Announced Shane Warne, the Queen, and Lionel Messi are not names you often see linked together
Even More Turnover At Granta Philip Gwyn Jones, executive publisher for Granta Books and Portobello Books, is the latest longtime staffer to leave Granta
Keith Richards Faces £3,000 Fine For Overdue Library Books Rolling Stones legend brought to book
Ebook Sales In Canada Plateau At 15% The Canadian market for ebooks remains steady, according to a new report from BookNet Canada |