Amazon's UK net sales were £2.91bn in 2011, according to information the retailer has... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2012-11-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sales of books for children surged in the UK last week, as schools broke for the spring half-term... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin UK c.e.o. Tom Weldon has said the publisher will be making connections with creative... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-02-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The stores charge that secret agreements made between the publishers and Amazon give Amazon the advantage in selling ebooks, but some industry observers find flaws in their logic. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon is pursuing more direct relationships with literary agents and authors, targeting them... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-02-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall has climbed the Amazon charts following saturation media coverage... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Transworld has revealed the UK cover for Dan Brown's forthcoming book Inferno, with an... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperVoyager is marking this year's 50th anniversary of Ray Bradbury's classic sci fi... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-02-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon has fired the security company it employed to oversee its warehouse operations over... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-02-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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James Daunt has restated his view that Amazon operates in an advantageous fiscal environment in... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-02-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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At a time when many independent booksellers both here and abroad are beginning to gain traction selling Kobo ebooks, other retailers are eyeing the secondary market for ebooks and other digital content. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-02-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hardie Grant UK has acquired The Pepperpot Club: A Celebration of Caribbean Cuisine by Jonathan... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-02-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon is said to be involved in a scandal in Germany, with a documentary accusing the retailer... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-02-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Preliminary estimates from the Census Bureau show that US bookstores as a whole experienced a 0.5 percent decrease in sales for the year of 2012. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jeff Bewkes and company used to insist they wanted to hang on to their magazine business. They stopped saying that in September. Continue reading at AllThingsD
[ AllThingsD | 2013-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon has patented a technology that allows customers to sell their previously read ebooks, audiobooks, music and movies in the same way that they can now sell print books, DVDs, and CDs. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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With ebooks’ share of unit sales rising from 14% for the first nine months of 2011 to 22% for the same period in 2012, the biggest winners among retailers were Amazon and dedicated ebookstores and digital download sites. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-02-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A number of independent bookshops are to close in the first quarter of 2013 ahead of the business... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-02-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hachette parent company Lagardere has reported a 1.9% fall in net sales for Hachette UK in 2012,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Agents for author Helen Fielding have confirmed that her third instalment of the Bridget Jones' Diary book series will have an Autumn release date. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2013-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mimi Spencer and Michael Mosley's intermittent fasting guide, The Fast Diet, was comfortably... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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