Our Clip of the Week comes to you in the form of two back-to-back segments from Wednesday night's "The Colbert Report," in which Stephen Colbert first outlines the ongoing battle between Amazon and the Hachette Book Group over ebook pricing, and then, together with his guest, National Book Award-winner Sherman Alexi, joins the fray. As it happens, Colbert is a Hachette author, which means his books have been subject to Amazon's hardball tactics in its deadlocked negotiations with Hachette, which have entailed the e-commerce giant delaying shipments and blocking pre-orders of the publisher's titles.To take on Amazon, Colbert announces that colbertnation.com has partnered with Powell's Books to take pre-orders of an upcoming Hachette book, "California," by Edan Lepucki (an Alexi recommendation), that Amazon is currently blocking. "We're going to prove that I can sell more books than Amazon," Colbert says. He also encourages you to download, again through colbertnation.com, a sheet of "I Didn't Buy It On Amazon" stickers [a PDF will load in your browser when you click this link] -- ready to be printed on sticker paper and slapped on "any book that you're reading." Continue reading at AdAge.com Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'
[ Advertising Age | 2014-06-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon is planning a global recruitment drive to hire 55,000 staff, including 2,500 in the UK, to accommodate the demand for online retail and digital advertising. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-09-01 19:48:27 UTC ]
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Now might be a good time to buy an e-reader for school — or that end-of-summer vacation. Amazon has cut the price of the ad-supported 8GB Kindle Paperwhite to an all-time low of $71 in a one-day-only sale, well below the official $130 sticker. That's lower than what we saw just two weeks... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2021-08-29 15:44:54 UTC ]
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Secondhand bookstores provided ample choices at low prices. So I picked up books by Joseph Conrad, James Webb and (too) many more. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-08-25 14:00:00 UTC ]
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Long Beach native Billie Jean King shares her new memoir, 'All In,' with L.A. Times Book Club readers. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2021-08-24 20:24:43 UTC ]
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The follow-up to “The Silence of the Girls” follows Briseis after the death of Achilles. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-08-24 13:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon plans to open several large physical retail locations in the US that will operate like department stores, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-08-20 23:13:54 UTC ]
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OnlyFans, the platform that allows creators to sell material directly to customers, will soon implement new restrictions on the publication of adult content. Starting in October, the company will ban the sale of sexually explicit content and depictions of sexual acts. The move does not cover all... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2021-08-20 17:40:41 UTC ]
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The Post’s Craig Whitlock explains why U.S. officials perpetuated a failing mission. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-08-20 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon’s oldest Kindles are being cut off from the internet. But don’t blame Amazon—these e-readers are collateral damage in the phaseout of 2G and 3G cellular service.The first two generations of Kindle e-readers used a cellular antenna to connect to the internet for downloading content.... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2021-08-18 16:45:00 UTC ]
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Gillian McAllister's That Night (Penguin) has leapfrogged Stephen King's Billy Summers (Hodder & Stoughton) to take the Amazon Charts' Most-Sold: Fiction number one spot. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-08-18 03:59:25 UTC ]
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Jane Dunn's Jane's Patisserie (Ebury) and Stephen King's Billy Summers (Hodder & Stoughton) have topped Amazon's Most-Sold: Non-Fiction and Most-Sold: Fiction rankings respectively. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-08-11 22:55:21 UTC ]
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American author Mitzi Szereto says she has been plagued by fake pornographic e-books listed under her name on Amazon in a similar scam to one which previously targeted commercial women’s writers in the UK. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-08-11 21:51:56 UTC ]
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Online retail giant Amazon has cut back its pioneering drone delivery team, but says it will still have a Prime Air presence in the UK. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-08-09 16:20:14 UTC ]
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In his memoir about being drafted into the Vietnam War, Jeff Danziger lays bare the futility and waste, as well as his own naiveté. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2021-08-03 20:35:22 UTC ]
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Second-quarter revenue increased by 27% at Amazon over last year's second period, as business began to return to more normal buying trends following months of pandemic-fueled shopping. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-07-30 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Filmmaker Rodrigo Garcia brings his memoir about his father, Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez, and mother, Mercedes Barcha, to the L.A. Times Book Club. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2021-07-29 20:18:15 UTC ]
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The seventh annual PW Star Watch is now open for nominations. The deadline for nominations is September 10. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-07-29 04:00:00 UTC ]
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The Kavanaugh fight shows how the GOP weaponized the process, Jackie Calmes writes. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-07-16 12:00:00 UTC ]
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In his new book, 'Forged in War: How a Century of War Created Today’s Information Society,' author and library educator R. David Lankes explores how a century of war has shaped our knowledge infrastructure—and why we must chart a new, more humane course for the future. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-07-16 04:00:00 UTC ]
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In a filing this week, Amazon and the Big Five publishers said the plaintiffs' claims of an e-book price-fixing conspiracy are "implausible." Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-07-07 04:00:00 UTC ]
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