Booksellers

Bits Blog: Amazon, Up in Flames

8 Feb 2012

A Seattle librarian celebrated for championing communal reading is now being vilified for cooperating with the behemoth that many booksellers see as a threat to their existence.

Amazon, Up in Flames

8 Feb 2012

Nancy Pearl may be America's best-known librarian. When she signed a deal with Amazon to publish out-of-print titles, it was after 20 traditional publishers had turned her down. Ms. Pearl is now being vilified for cooperating with the behemoth that many booksellers see as a threat to their existence.

French Booksellers Come Up With A New Kind Of Strike

8 Feb 2012

"In Nicolas Sarkozy's second crisis-budget plan, which raised taxes to try to plug the deficit, he raised VAT on books from 5.5% to 7%. ... Booksellers' unions are up in arms against the measure, which comes into force in April ...