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Friday 18th May

Latest News

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

Other News

Rakuten's Investment In Pinterest To Enhance Kobo's Social Reading Experience

EU links research grants to open access

Hundreds Of Writers And Scholars Rally To Save New York Public Library

Society Of Authors: Children's Literacy Campaign Launched

Frédéric Mitterrand Speaks Out Against Amazon's 'predatory Pricing'

Israeli Writers' Festival To Prescreen Speeches In Bid To Ban Political Content

Pearson Strengthens Academic Offering With Certiport Deal

Google Shakes Up Search With New Wikipedia-like Feature

British Kids Read Their E-books On A Bigger Screen

Words Of Wisdom From The World E-reading Congress 2012

HarperCollins supports Unravelling launch with online experiential campaign

Harry Potter Is Great Literature, Say Academics

Campaigners Block Council's Efforts To Remove Books From Kensal Rise Library

Aaron Sorkin to write 'official' Steve Jobs biopic

Michael Morpurgo in book festival line-up

Trade Announcements

Cook Wins Ruth Rendell Short Story Competition

Terry Pratchett And Sue Townsend Compete For UK's Leading Comic Fiction Prize

Eric Brown Sells Second Weird Space Science Fiction Novel To Abaddon

Hot Key Books Acquires Haunting Debut Novel Set In 1890s Malaya

Judges Announced For Guardian Hot Key Books Young Writers Prize

The Dictator's Learning Curve To Harvill Secker

DSC Prize For South Asian Literature Announces Call For Entries For Its 2013 Edition

Crimefest Announces Awards Shortlists 2012

All Books Are Good, If We Want To Expand Our Minds

TV Book Club Viewers Vote S. J. Watson's Before I Go To Sleep Their 2012 Best Read

Desmond Elliott Prize 2012: Longlist Announced

Kobo And WHSmith To Launch 100 New Kobo Experiential Shops

3 More From Helen Warner For S&S UK

Abrams To Publish Nobel Prizewinning Author Orhan Pamuk's Catalogue For The Museum Of Innocence

The London Book Fair Celebrates Official Market Focus Handover From China To Turkey

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Opinion

E-Books as Airplane Seats: What They Should Cost
www.cjr.org

It's probably not 99 cents

Why E-books Will Soon Be Obsolete
gyrovague.com

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?

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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Feature Items

Digital Revolution Has Made Sex The Hottest Genre In Literature
www.independent.co.uk

How e-readers took the embarrassment out of erotic fiction

Send Yourself A Rejection Letter
www.mediabistro.com

The Rejection Generator rejects writers before an editor looks at a submission

Thinking Through A Strategy For Digital Rights Management
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org

Do unauthorized copies of a book take sales away from authorized copies?

The Coming Book Wars: Apple vs. Amazon vs. Google vs. The U.S.
www.theatlantic.com

Unresolved conflicts among publishers, sellers, libraries, and the U.S. Justice Department cloud the future of the publishing industry

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