Waterstones deal with Amazon puts Kindle and ebooks instore
Waterstones will sell Kindle e-readers for the first time and offer free Wi-Fi, so customers can buy a book or download it instoreWaterstones has announced a surprise tie-up with Amazon that will enable shoppers to pluck ebooks as well as physical book...
Ebooks: should their form determine their value?
Despite what retailers think, the true value of a book lies not in its physical form but in the time spent writing itLast week, the US Justice Department filed suit against Apple and five major publishers alleging collusion in ebook prices and sales mo...
Ma Jian protest paints the London Book Fair red
Beijing Coma author daubs paint over himself before branding Chinese publishers 'mouthpiece of the Chinese communist party'In a dramatic act of protest at this week's London Book Fair, Chinese author Ma Jian smeared red paint across his face to demonst...
Ma Jian protest paints the London Book Fair red
Beijing Coma author daubs paint over himself before branding Chinese publishers 'mouthpiece of the Chinese communist party'In a dramatic act of protest at this week's London Book Fair, Chinese author Ma Jian smeared red paint across his face to demonst...
Set fair for change?
The partying goes on at Earl's Court, but new formats and self-publishing are changing the industryThe trays of free wine and boastful talk of six-figure deals struck at dinner parties might seem to some like the last days of decadence for a publishing...
If Apple loses, so do we all
If Apple loses the US case for alleged price-fixing, Amazon will be left in sole charge of the publishing industryIt's easy to see the positive in the Department of Justice's decision to file a lawsuit against publishers and Apple over ebook pricing: i...
Tim Waterstone warns Amazon tax avoidance could kill off bookshops
Founder of UK books chain says Amazon tax planning fits pattern of 'rude, contemptuous, arrogant' online companyTim Waterstone, the founder of the eponymous bookstores, has warned that Amazon's "grotesquely unfair" avoidance of millions of pounds of UK...
Amazon a ‘dangerous’ force, says Ottakar’s founder
Amazon is damaging the high street book trade and threatens to undermine the nurturing of new talent, argues James HeneageThe founder of the Ottakar's book chain has described Amazon as a "dangerous" force that is damaging the high street book trade an...
Beautiful bookshops? No thanks!
At best, the attractiveness of a bookshop is beside the point. At worst it's a positively bad signAccording to William Morris, one of the major thinkers, and designers, of the Aesthetic Movement, you should "have nothing in your house that you do not k...
Amazon Publishing bookshop boycott grows
Independent booksellers join Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million and Canadian chain Indigo in refusing to stock retail giant's own booksThe cold war between north American booksellers and Amazon has hotted up this week, with the booksellers joining togeth...
French-style tax breaks are not the way to save the UK’s small bookshops | Philip Jones
Subsidies cannot, and should not, save independent shops. Owners and publishers have to make them unique places to visitBookshop owners in Britain could be forgiven for casting envious glances across the Channel as they watch their French counterparts ...
A new chapter for rare book collecting