Tuesday 9th February

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Waterstones Recommends Novel Full Of Expletives, Sex And Violence For Children As Young As Eight
entertainment.timesonline.co.uk

Sawbones, a thriller by the Scottish crime writer Stuart MacBride, was chosen by the retailer in a children's catalogue as suitable for 'reluctant, struggling or dyslexic readers aged 8+'

Amazon To Macmillan: You Win (For Now)
mashable.com

Weekend drama between Macmillan and Amazon has ended decisively in the book publisher's favor

Amazon.com Pulls Macmillan US Books Over E-book Price Disagreement
bits.blogs.nytimes.com

Books from Macmillan, one of the largest publishers in the United States, have vanished from Amazon.com

Amazon Profits Rise 71% After Strong Festive Trading
news.bbc.co.uk

Reports net profit of $384m

In a year when the iPod moment for books looks increasingly likely to happen, failure to pass the Digital Economy Bill isn't a lost opportunity, it's a tragedy

Sony Daily Edition eReader Not As Hot As Its News
blogs.ft.com

Sony has been thrilled with sales of its eReaders over the Christmas period, but...

Should Gok Wan Dictate Our Reading Habits?
blogs.telegraph.co.uk

Are comedians, fashion commentators and maths boffins really the best qualified to tell us what to read?

Amazon's Ebook License A Scam, Says Doctorow
mhpbooks.com

'I won't buy any of Amazon's digital offerings until they clean up their act and deliver the same customer rights to e-goods buyers as they do to hard-goods buyers.'

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Opinion

Apple's iPad And The Evolution Of Books
online.wsj.com

Today's e-book is the direct descendent of the 1930s paperback

As I Start To Write My Latest Book, I Fear For The Future Of Publishing
www.guardian.co.uk

Retailing pressure and the emergence of the ebook are threatening the future of authors and their work

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Obituaries

Knox Burger, Agent And Book Editor, Dies At 87
www.nytimes.com

Died on Jan. 4 in Manhattan at the age of 87 after enduring a number of medical problems

Geoffrey Moorhouse
www.telegraph.co.uk

Geoffrey Moorhouse, who died on November 26 aged 77, was a greatly talented writer on the wide variety of subjects that snared his interest

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Imagine If Publishers Turned Brick-and-mortar Bookstores Into 'Agents' Who Got A Thirty-percent Commission?
www.huffingtonpost.com

Have we stumbled upon a model that actually works better than the current model?

Apple Turnover
www.londonbookfair.co.uk

Apple's iPad shows that publishers have learned some tough lessons from other creative industries over the past 10 years, according to Danuta Kean

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Books in the Media

Judith Kerr, Talking Tigers And Tea
www.guardian.co.uk

The much beloved author of The Tiger Who Came to Tea and the Mog books, still going strong at 86, tells Alison Flood about her new book

Warren Beatty Slept With 12,775 Women, Claims Biographer
www.guardian.co.uk

Hollywood star's sexual conquests said to have included Isabelle Adjani, Diane Keaton and Madonna

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