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Behold: How Amazon Wins The Sales Tax Wars Even When It Loses
gigaom.com

What's really behind Amazon's tax war

At Hearing, Judge Says She Is Leaning Against Apple
www.publishersweekly.com

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
www.guardian.co.uk

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
www.digitalbookworld.com

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
www.breakthrough.org.uk

Penguin and WHS partner on charity summer reading campaign

Amazon: Victim Or Aggressor? Issue Will Frame Apple Ebook Trial
paidcontent.org

Recent court filings show that Amazon will play a large role in determining the outcome

Manila Less Than Thrilled At Dan Brown's Inferno
www.guardian.co.uk

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
www.bbc.co.uk

Thousands at author Achebe's funeral

Borders Gift Card Holders To Get Nothing
www.npr.org

Judge: Unredeemed Borders Gift Cards Are Worthless

Libraries Must Remain Community Hubs
www.localgov.co.uk

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
www.foxbusiness.com

Will restructure its top management to focus on core educational categories and geographies

Stephen Brumwell Wins George Washington Book Prize
www.washingtonpost.com

The British are coming! And winning.

Orbit Head Revolves Back To London
www.shelf-awareness.com

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
www.printweek.com

Trading status of book and journal printer MPG Printgroup is unclear

Desmond Elliott Prize Shortlist Announced
www.telegraph.co.uk

Just three books remain in contention for the £10,000 prize, including one written entirely in verse

Another Plagiarism Scandal Hits Poetry Community
www.guardian.co.uk

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
www.independent.co.uk

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
publishingperspectives.com

Will enable any writer to create fan fiction based on a range of original stories

Penguin Settles State E-book Pricing Suits For $75m
news.cnet.com

Will Avoid Trial

UK Retail Sales Slump
www.guardian.co.uk

Shoppers balk at higher prices and cold weather

Man Booker International Prize Goes To Lydia Davis
www.bbc.co.uk

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
www.thetimes.co.uk

Shane Warne, the Queen, and Lionel Messi are not names you often see linked together

Even More Turnover At Granta
www.mhpbooks.com

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
www.mirror.co.uk

Rolling Stones legend brought to book

Ebook Sales In Canada Plateau At 15%
www.digitalbookworld.com

The Canadian market for ebooks remains steady, according to a new report from BookNet Canada


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