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Amazon and EU 'in settlement talks' over e-book investigation Amazon Inc and European Union regulators have started settlement discussions over the internet giant’s e-book deals with publishers, according to news reports.

Bookouture makes two hires as sales reach 4.2m in 2016 Bookouture has made two major hires as the three-year-old company hits unit sales of 4.2m in 2016 year to date.

Barry and Somerville leave HCG as Cattell joins Clare Somerville, commercial director at Hachette Children’s Group (HCG), and Susan Barry, group communications director at HCG, are to leave amid changes at the company.

With sales like this, baby, Bruce is number one Bruce Springsteen has thundered into the Official UK Top 50 number one spot with his memoir Born to Run (Simon & Schuster), which sold 37,518 copies for £437,540, according to Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market.

Debut author Orr wins BBC National Short Story Award Debut British author K J Orr has beaten off competition from Booker Prize-winning Hilary Mantel to win the £15,000 BBC National Short Story Award with BookTrust for 2016.

You Must Bring a Hat crowned Sainsbury’s Children's 'book of the year' You Must Bring A Hat by Simon Philip and Kate Hindley (Simon & Schuster) was announced as the ‘book of the year’ at the Sainsbury Children’s Book Awards 2016.

Picador wins Dear Mrs Bird in seven-way auction Picador has won a debut novel by A J Pearce, Dear Mrs Bird, after a "passionately-fought" seven-publisher auction.

Louisa Joyner makes her first acquisition for Faber Faber & Faber has signed “an exuberant, original” novel by Chris Wilson in Louisa Joyner’s first acquisition since joining the publisher as editorial director.

PRH diversity scheme launches in Manchester and West Midlands WriteNow, a Penguin Random House campaign to find, mentor and publish new authors from communities under-represented on bookshelves, has opened for applications in Manchester and the West Midlands.

Author Greenwood 'murdered for rare book worth £50k' A man allegedly stabbed author Adrian Greenwood to death in order to rob him of rare books including a valuable first edition of The Wind in the Willows worth £50,000, a jury has been told.

Norman Bettison book to give his take on the Hillsborough disaster Sir Norman Bettison, the former chief constable of both Merseyside and West Yorkshire Police, is set to publish Hillsborough Untold through Biteback Publishing.

BBC Radio 1's Cairney to speak at Reading Agency event BBC Radio 1 presenter Gemma Cairney is going to be speaking in conversation with The Reading Agency at The British Library next month.