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Waterstone says reports of bid 'overstated and...

Waterstone's founder Tim Waterstone has dismissed as "overstated and overwritten" reports that he is planning to buy back the book chain he founded in 1982 from its current parent HMV. However...

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Blair "thinking about" calling off Waterstone's signing

Violence at Tony Blair's book signing in Dublin on Saturday (4th September) has prompted the former prime minister to consider calling off the planned book signing at Waterstone's Piccadilly on...

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Nourry regrets misunderstanding over iPad ad

Hachette Livre chief executive Arnaud Nourry has said that he regretted that a misunderstanding had arisen with French booksellers over the publisher's advertising campaign for the launch of the iPad in...

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Last updated 07.01.10

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The Sharjah superstore

One of the most prominent features at the 28th Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF) is an item that you would be hard pressed to find at the London, Bologna or Frankfurt book fairs: shopping trolleys. Over the 10 days of the...

Business Focus: New year resolution

"January is the cruellest month, breeding Returns out of the dead stock, mixing Memory and desire of busier weeks …" Or so might Eliot have written had he worked in a bookshop. But is it true and does it have to be...

Business Focus: Serial Thrillers

At Usborne, it's "Malory Towers on ice"; at Faber, it's magic toys called Hoozles; at Egmont, it's a father-and-son spy team with lashings of football. Publishers have placed their bets on the series they hope will make it big next year,...


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Tom Holland

Stand together

Authors and publishers should unite to stop the devaluation of the e-book in the eyes of consumers before it is too late.

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Philip Stone

TWiC #35: Week Ending 28th August 2010

Charts editor Philip Stone takes a light-hearted look at This Week in Charts...

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Simon Garfield

For fonts' sake

In our visually-dominated landscape, choosing the right fonts for a jacket is more...

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