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The trade has welcomed the European Commission’s investigation
into Amazon’s e-book business, with publishers, agents and booksellers
calling for a fairer digital marketplace for books.
Richard Mollet, c.e.o of The Publishers Association, added:
“For some time now we have been calling on competition authorities to look
in to the imbalance in the book retail market. Today’s announcement from
the Commission is therefore a welcome development.”
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The UK Booksellers Association has taken a lead role in
pressing for a regulatory investigation into Amazon, The Bookseller can
reveal. The association submitted a dossier to the Competition and Markets
Authority last November about Amazon’s “domination” of the UK market, which
it believes paved the way for the European Commission to begin its formal
anti-trust investigation of the retailer. The BA described it as the
“biggest lobbying job” it had undertaken, and expressed delight at the
outcome.
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Philip Pullman has warned that the European Commission should
consider falling author income as part of its investigation into Amazon's
e-book business.
The author warned The
Bookseller that the investigation, announced yesterday (11th June), was failing to take
the role of the author into account, because there was seemingly no mention
of “the creators of the work that all this is about, namely the authors” in
the reasons behind the move.
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Little, Brown has released further plot details about Career
of Evil, the third novel by "Robert Galbraith".
The book, the third to be authored by J K Rowling under a
pseudonym, will continue the story of private detective Cormoran Strike and
his assistant Robin Ellacott and will see the detective's assistant
receiving a mysterious package that contains a a woman’s severed leg.
Cormoran Strike believes there are four people from his past
who he thinks could be responsible, and knows that any one of them is capable
of sustained and unspeakable brutality.
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Fifty Shades of Grey author E L James will sign copies of the
new book in the series, Grey
(Arrow), at Barnes & Noble in New York City on the book's release date
next Thursday (18th June).
It will be the author’s only New York City book signing
appearance for the novel, which will be published on the same day - the
fictional character’s birthday. James will be signing books at Barnes &
Noble Fifth Avenue from 11:30 a.m.
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The new children’s laureate Chris Riddell said he supports
campaigns for illustrators to gain equal credit with writers.
In an interview with The
Bookseller magazine published today (12th June), Ridell
said Sarah McIntyre, who spearheaded the #PicturesMeanBusiness campaign, is “amazing”.
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Bonnier Publishing is looking to expand its fiction division
and is recruiting for five managerial roles.
The division, which includes children’s imprints Hot Key Books
and Piccadilly Press and adult fiction imprints Zaffre and Twenty7, is
looking to hire a director/head of export sales, key account manager
(digital sales), key account manager (print fiction), PR manager and
marketing manager.
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The Book Hive in Norwich has teamed up with seven independent
publishers to create a bookshop awning that also doubles up as an
advertisement for the imprints.
Faber & Faber, Pushkin Press, Granta, Salt, Melville House
UK and Peirene Press have all paid to have their logos featured on The Book
Hive’s new awning, in a collaboration which “shows the strength of the bond
between independent bookshop and independent publisher,” the indie
outlet’s owner Henry Layte told The
Bookseller.
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Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court unanimously decided this week
that the country’s privacy legislation cannot be used to block the
publication of any biography that has not been expressly allowed by its
subject, or his or her relatives.
The decision, taken on Wednesday (10th June), followed a suit
brought by Brazil’s National Book Editors Association (Associação Nacional
de Editores de Livros, or ANEL) three years ago.
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Penguin Random House’s Michael Joseph division has signed a
book by Felix Kjellberg, better known as YouTube star PewDiePie.
This Book Loves You will include “over 250
illustrated pages of indispensable advice and inspirational quotes”.
Kjellberg, whose YouTube channel has more than 37m
subscribers, said: "This book is a great chance for me to reach my
audience in a new way.
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The US book and journal publishing industry generated $27.98bn
(£18.05bn) in net revenue in 2014, up slightly from the year before, with
the largest growth in trade coming from the children and young adult
category, according to new statistics released by the Association of
American Publishers (AAP).
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Travel bookshop Stanfords is calling on other booksellers to
help promote the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards with point of sale,
events and passion.
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