Nov 10 2011: A bipartisan group of 10 U.S. senators has introduced the Marketplace Fairness Act, which would grant states the authority to compel online retailers to collect sales taxes. The proposed legislation "seeks to both ensure that online retailers are collecting taxes while ...
Nov 09 2011: As more information has come to light about the Lending Library program Amazon launched last week, the tenor in the industry has shifted from puzzlement to anger. Although Amazon initially said it reached a "variety of terms" with publishers to include their titles in ...
Nov 07 2011: Concern is growing in the US over the launch of Amazon's Kindle lending initiative. Amazon launched the new service last week aimed at Kindle-owning Prime users, but publishers have expressed concern over titles appearing in the program without agreement, while agents ...
Nov 07 2011: Alan Hollinghurst, whose recently published book, The Stranger's Child, was controversially omitted from this year's Man Booker shortlist, has been lauded at last Friday's Galaxy National Book Awards, winning the Author of the Year Award.
Emma Donoghue's Room won ...
Nov 03 2011: Amazon.com has launched the Kindle Owners' Lending Library for e-books for customers who have an Amazon Prime membership (costing $79 a year). Kindle owners can borrow one book a month, with about 5000 titles to choose from. The program only works on Kindles, not ...
Nov 02 2011: John Wiley and Sons, one of the world’s largest book publishers, has sued 27 BitTorrent users at a federal court in New York claiming that the defendants have shared copies of its "For Dummies" books without permission. Although over 200,000 people have been sued in the...
Oct 26 2011: The organizers of the UK's 2nd World Book Night have announced the 25 titles that will be given away on April 23, 2012 - and have also issued a recruitment appeal for 20,000 booklovers to help give away the million copies that will be specially printed. Titles include ...
Oct 26 2011: The Office of Fair Trading has cleared Amazon to take over The Book Depository, ruling the merger would not lead to a lessening of competition within the UK book industry. The Book Depository is based in the UK but sells most of its books to overseas markets due to its ...
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