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Latest News

Sony Reader To Get UK Launch
www.pocket-lint.co.uk

Beating Amazon's Kindle to the UK market, Sony has announced the launch of its new Reader

Amazon Conflict With Hachette Will Not Be Over By Christmas
entertainment.timesonline.co.uk

Publishers have had their Dunkirk, and now Hachette is attempting to launch D-Day

Amazon Uses All Its Might To Wage Price War Against Publisher
entertainment.timesonline.co.uk

Amazon still in conflict with the Hachette Group, Britain's largest publisher, over terms and discounts and is refusing to sell its titles

Murder Tale Scoops Johnson Prize
news.bbc.co.uk

An analysis of an 1860 murder case that inspired writers including Charles Dickens has won BBC Four's Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction


Blogable Posts

Asda £1 Sale
blogs.guardian.co.uk

Is this the end for Harry Potter?

The Web Doesn't Care
sethgodin.typepad.com

It wasn't invented by business people, and it doesn't exist to help your company make money

Latitude Festival
blogs.guardian.co.uk

Do books and bands really mix?

Place Your Bets For The Booker Longlist
www.panmacmillan.com

The 2008 Man Booker Prize longlist is announced in just over a week.

Opinion

I'll Never Be Caught Reading An Ebook
entertainment.timesonline.co.uk

Borders is struggling to sell its iLiad ebook reader. What a surprise

Remember The Reader
www.washingtonpost.com

Amid all the intellectual banter about the decline of the publishing industry, everyone seems to have forgotten about the reader

Obituaries

Andrew Crozier
www.guardian.co.uk

Poet, publisher and rescuer of many forgotten works

Janwillem Van De Wetering Dead At 77
www.radionetherlands.nl

The Dutch writer Janwillem van de Wetering, famous for the Grijpstra & de Gier series of crime novels, has died at the age of 77

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Feature Items

Call Of The Wild: Britain's Nature Writers
www.independent.co.uk

British nature writers have rambled out of the shadows and into the limelight. Boyd Tonkin explores the revival of their art

Google & Co Want Us To Read All About It
www.guardian.co.uk

When it started, publishers were up in arms about Google's presumption that they could scan first and worry about copyright later

Books in the Media

Better Left Unpublished...?
entertainment.timesonline.co.uk

Till recently publishing was often a family business, but most of the famous names have now been swallowed up by conglomerates

Sadie Jones: 'What I Learnt From 15 Years Of Failure'
www.telegraph.co.uk

The latest publishing sensation Sadie Jones had everything - except for success as a writer

Latest Reviews

2b Or Not 2b?
books.guardian.co.uk

Despite doom-laden prophecies, texting has not been the disaster for language many feared

Nothing To Be Frightened Of By Julian Barnes
www.telegraph.co.uk

Julian Barnes's all too commonplace book