Wednesday 16th May

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Ann Patchett Gets Third Orange Prize Nomination
www.bbc.co.uk

Novelist Ann Patchett has been shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction for the third time

US sues Apple and publishers over e-book prices
www.bbc.co.uk

Technology giant Apple and major publishers are being sued by the US Department of Justice over pricing of e-books

Big Six Publishers Decline To Renew Contract With Amazon Over Unfavorable Terms
www.teleread.com

Big Six publishers are taking a page from the Independent Publishing Group's book and declining to renew their contract with Amazon over what they see as an Amazon price gouge

Amazon: £7bn sales, no UK corporation tax
www.guardian.co.uk

Online retailer's British operation owned by company in Luxembourg which receives all payments for books, DVDs and other goods

Any publisher banking on e-books being around 5 years from now is in for a rude surprise

Are Electronic Authors' Co-operatives The New Force In Publishing?
andrewcrofts.blogspot.com

One growing trend is the rise of electronic author cooperatives, where groups of writers combine forces to get one another's, (and of course their own), work in front of potential readers.

Why do ebooks cost so much?
www.telegraph.co.uk

Why do many ebooks cost almost as much as their physical counterparts?

Publishers Beware! More Creative Destruction On The Way
publishingperspectives.com

Why Apple, Amazon, Facebook or Microsoft might be the next bidder for your publishing house

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Books in the Media

Parenting Guru Bryan Caplan Prescribes Less Fuss – And More Fun
www.guardian.co.uk

Economist Bryan Caplan argues that nurture counts for so little that parents can 'cut themselves a lot of slack'

Sir Patrick Moore: In Tune With Music Of The Spheres
www.independent.co.uk

He played piano with Einstein and counts rock icons among his friends. But for Britain's best-loved astronomer, the stars in the sky are all that matter

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Obituaries

Peter Burton
www.independent.co.uk

Writer and publisher who championed gay literature for over 35 years

Michael Legat
www.booktrade.info

And what, asked Michael, do they do in publishing? "They read books and go to cocktail parties," said the Careers Master, which sounded like just the sort of thing Michael had in mind.

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