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Print and digital help grow the book market in 2014 Last year the book trade “rekindled its love affair with the physical book”, Pan Macmillan’s m.d Anthony Forbes Watson has told The Bookseller. “Previous years have all been about growing e-book sales, but in 2014, in a market where e-book sales were plateauing, suddenly it was all about forward to the past, not back to the future,“ he added.

Luxembourg accused of supplying 'state aid' to Amazon Luxembourg provided “state aid” to Amazon through its tax arrangements for the company, the European Commission has said in a preliminary finding.

Murray: Harlequin buy 'transformative' The highlights of the second morning of Digital Book World conference in New York yesterday (15th January) came from HarperCollins c.e.o. Brian Murray discussing his company and the future, and Nielsen’s Jonathan Nowell talking about how print sales have changed in the US.

Children's app market set for schism Single-app products will struggle to survive in children’s publishing in 2015 and the industry should shift its focus to online communities and cross-platform content, digital experts in the trade have warned. Sara O’Connor, digital fiction director at Hot Key Books, said many apps will “die quietly” this year, while Eric Huang, development director at Made in Me, said making money out of an “expensive, bespoke” app was very hard. Guantanamo diary launch for Canongate Canongate is publishing the diary of Guantanamo detainee Mohamedou Ould Slahi  (Guantanamo Diary, 20th January, £20). The book will be published in 16 countries simultaneously, including in the US, by Little, Brown.