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Waterstones Starts Consultations Over Jobs With Staff
www.independent.co.uk

Hundreds of jobs could go at Waterstones

Amazon UK paid only £2.4m tax on £4bn sales last year
www.guardian.co.uk

Amazon's UK subsidiary paid £2.4m in corporate taxes last year on sales of £4.3bn - a rate of less than 0.1%

Microsoft Mulling Nook Media LLC Purchase For $1 Billion
techcrunch.com

Natural next step for Microsoft?

Bookshops Face Pricing Hell Over Dan Brown's Inferno
www.standard.co.uk

Independent bookstores have hit out at retail giants that are selling Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown's new novel, Inferno, for less than half the recommended price

It could be said that publishers themselves began the unbundling process

Don't Make Fun Of Renowned Dan Brown
www.telegraph.co.uk

The snobs and critics will have a field day with the US author's latest work

Women Love Erotica. They Always Have And Always Will
www.telegraph.co.uk

What has the literary world learned from the blockbuster that was Fifty Shades of Grey?

YA Books Need To Reflect Our Diverse Society
www.telegraph.co.uk

YA (Young Adult) novelist Tanya Byrne believes there is room for more books about teenagers of colour in the modern world

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From Suffolk book plant to British readers but will novel generate UK tax?
www.guardian.co.uk

Journey of new novel shows how book printed and published in Britain – and bought on Amazon – is taxed in Luxembourg

The Wild World Of Hindi Pulp Fiction
publishingperspectives.com

The glorious world of Hindi pulp fiction may be coming to a close, as the internet, satellite tv and sagging sales take their toll

When Celebrities Take Over Publishing Companies ...
www.newrepublic.com

Every age gets the publishing industry it deserves

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