Hodge on Amazon: 'We should shop elsewhere'

Outspoken MP Margaret Hodge has said customers should not use Amazon after it emerged that the... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2014-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]

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Amazon Charts: The Testaments jumps the gun

Margaret Atwood's The Testaments (Vintage) tops the Amazon Charts: Most-Sold Fiction chart, a week ahead of its publication, with the Booker-shortlisted title the most pre-ordered book in the chart. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-11 04:09:14 UTC ]
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Why It Matters That Amazon Shipped Margaret Atwood’s “The Testaments” a Week Early

Back in May, I signed an embargo agreement on behalf of my bookstore stating that I would “ensure that [The Testaments by Margaret Atwood] is stored in a monitored and locked, secured area and not placed on the selling floor prior to the on-sale date.” The idea behind such agreements is that... Continue reading at Electric Literature

[ Electric Literature | 2019-09-06 11:00:49 UTC ]
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Amazon apologises for 'technical error' following early US release of The Testaments

Amazon has apologised for the “technical error” which saw Margaret Atwood’s highly anticipated The Testaments distributed to some pre-order customers almost a week ahead of the publication date, breaking a worldwide embargo. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-05 14:05:02 UTC ]
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ABA Condemns Amazon for Breaking 'Testaments' Embargo

The American Booksellers Association responded to Amazon's violation of 'The Testaments' embargo by promising to step up their efforts to persuade the Department of Justice to investigate Amazon's business practices. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-09-05 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon US delivers pre-order copies of The Testaments a week early

https://www.thebookseller.com/news/atwood-star-global-cinema-event-six-string-uk-tour-970551Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments has been sent out to some readers a week before publication due to “retailer error”. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-04 14:55:27 UTC ]
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Summers departs Emerald for The Paperback Shop

Caroline Summers is leaving her role as head of book sales for academic publisher Emerald and taking up a new post as sales director at The Paperback Shop. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-04 12:35:41 UTC ]
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Indie Booksellers Incensed as Amazon Breaks 'Testaments' Embargo

A highly anticipated new book. A broken embargo. A cluster of angry booksellers. Penguin Random House has reacted to the fact that Amazon seems to have shipped copies of Margaret Atwood's 'The Testaments' in spite of the fact that it's on-sale-date is nearly a week away. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-09-04 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon pays £14m corporation tax as revenue increases

Amazon's UK logistics and warehouse arm tripled its corporation tax payment to £14m for 2018, the company has revealed. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-03 21:29:05 UTC ]
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Amazon Charts: Pinch of Nom follow-up disrupts the non-fiction chart

Months ahead of release, Kay Featherstone and Kate Allinson's Pinch of Nom: Everyday Light (Bluebird), the follow-up to record-breaking blockbuster Pinch of Nom, has vaulted straight into the Amazon Charts Most-Sold: Non-Fiction number one. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-03 19:59:46 UTC ]
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The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of Goodnight Moon

Margaret Wise Brown’s classic children’s book Goodnight Moon was published on this day in 1947. It’s widely beloved, well-reviewed, and much parodied, and also hated intensely by a serious few. You know where this is going—I compile at least one of these one-star reviews pieces a month, but I... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2019-09-03 08:50:11 UTC ]
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Amazon Charts: How to Be Right hits the top

James O'Brien's How to Be Right (Virgin) has claimed the Amazon Charts Most Sold: Non-Fiction number one, ending the five-week run of Adam Kay's This is Going to Hurt (Picador). Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-28 08:18:55 UTC ]
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Bibliotheca Calls Out Amazon for Meddling in the Library E-book Market

In a message sent to library customers, Tom Mercer, senior v-p of digital products for Bibliotheca (formerly 3M), called out Amazon for its role in the increasingly contentious library e-book market. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-08-27 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers sue Amazon's Audible over speech-to-text feature

Major US publishers have filed a lawsuit against Amazon's audiobook company Audible in a row over a new speech-to-text feature which they say is a violation of copyright law.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-26 15:42:06 UTC ]
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A Solution to Amazon’s Counterfeiting Problem (shelftalker)

In this new era of mutual assistancem a bookseller offers his advice to Amazon regarding the counterfeit books issue. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-08-22 11:00:16 UTC ]
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Amazon Charts: One Minute Later scores a second week

Susan Lewis' One Minute Later (HarperCollins) has held the Amazon Charts Most Sold number one for Fiction for a second week, as Rosie Walsh's The Man Who Didn't Call (Mantle) leapt five places into second place. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-21 10:06:24 UTC ]
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Amazon’s Superhero Satire The Boys Is Wonderfully Tasteless and Occasionally Timely

The new comic book adaptation adjusts for the rise of Marvel but not the rise of Trump. Continue reading at Slate

[ Slate | 2019-08-15 22:06:08 UTC ]
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Amazon Charts: Beloved bounces as Lewis takes the helm

Toni Morrison's Beloved (Vintage Digital) has made its debut in the Amazon charts, following the announcement of the 88-year-old author's death last week.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-14 00:52:07 UTC ]
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Amazon's new Lord of the Rings 'cannot use much of Tolkien's plot'

Scholar working on the show says the author’s estate has refused permission to depict any of the events shown in Peter Jackson’s filmsA JRR Tolkien expert working on Amazon’s forthcoming multi-series adaptation of The Lord of the Rings has claimed that the retail and streaming giant has been... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2019-08-09 15:27:18 UTC ]
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IndieBound Needs a Makeover If It's Going to Fight Amazon

An indie bookseller urges the American Booksellers Association to enhance its website for the good of booksellers everywhere. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-08-09 04:00:00 UTC ]
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The Amazon Publishing Juggernaut

What does the ecommerce giant want with the notoriously fickle world of publishing? To own your every reading decision. Continue reading at The Atlantic

[ The Atlantic | 2019-08-08 17:45:07 UTC ]
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