THE ROUNDUP
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Sainsbury's to
Halt Print Sales Online : Sainsbury’s will stop selling physical
books online by the end of February. The supermarket’s website will move to a
completely on demand model in March 2014 after the retailer admitted it sees
future online opportunities as lying solely in “digital products."
Bezos Airlifted
from Galapagos : Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos was airlifted on January
1 by an Ecuadorian Navy helicopter because of a medical emergency caused by
kidney stones, according to Drew Herdener, a spokesman for the Seattle-based
company. Bezos was on a cruise of the Pacific Ocean archipelago.
Amis Pays
Tribute to His Stepmother: Martin Amis revealed he would not be
the novelist he is today if it were not for his stepmother, the late author
Elizabeth Jane Howard.
First Ever 3-D
Book Cover : The limited edition of Chang-rae Lee’s "On
Such a Full Sea" brings publishing into the future (or, rather, one
possible future).
Written Off:
The New Yorker's Rebecca Mead on Jennifer Weiner's quest for literary respect.
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