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Waterstones sale to investment firm confirmed

Apr 26 2018: As expected in earlier reporting, U.S. investment firm Elliott Advisors has agreed to buy U.K. bookstore chain Waterstones, which operates 283 bookstores in the U.K and a handful of branches in Ireland, Holland and Belgium. James Daunt, who is credited with having ...

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E-book sales fell 10% in 2017

Apr 25 2018: Unit sales of traditionally published e-books fell 10% in 2017, compared to 2016, according to figures released by PubTrack Digital.

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PBS's The Great American Read

Apr 23 2018: The Great American Read, an eight-part series hosted by TV personality and journalist Meredith Vieira, will introduce viewers to PBS's list of the country's 100 favorite novels, created in partnership with the polling service YouGov. After the initial two-hour episode ...

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What will you be reading next year? A roundup of the London book fair

Apr 19 2018: Every year, after fierce fights between publishers over novels, celebrity memoirs and curveball meditations on nature and life, the dust settles on the London Book Fair and we’re left with a list of titles to look forward to. Here are some of the biggest books coming ...

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Andrew Sean Greer's "Less" is surprise winner of Pulitzer for fiction.

Apr 17 2018: Andrew Sean Greer's novel Less and James Forman Jr.'s book Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America are among the 2018 Pulitzer Prize winners, each of whom receives $15,000.

Pulitzer-watchers see Less as a surprise win given that it was not ...

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Three judges resign from Nobel literature committee

Apr 10 2018: Three judges for the Nobel literature prize have resigned. Klas Ostergren, Kjell Espmark and Peter Englund released statements or letters Friday to Swedish media but gave few details. Englund wrote in a letter to the tabloid Aftonbladet that his decision was linked to ...

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Sale of Waterstones to hedge fund likely to complete by end of April

Apr 09 2018: UK bookstore chain Waterstones will likely be sold to hedge fund Elliott Advisors by the end of April, the end of the store's fiscal year, according to the Bookseller, which cited "a source with knowledge of the situation." Neither Waterstones nor Elliott Advisors has ...

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Amazon Study Reveals Explosive Growth of Third-Party Sales, Sales Tax Avoidance

Apr 05 2018: A new report from the American Booksellers Association (ABA) and Civic Economics reveals the continuing — and increasing — loss of jobs and essential state and municipal revenue as a result of the growing retail dominance of Amazon.com. The report documents both Amazon’...

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