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Amazon/Hachette stand-off continues
The stand-off between Hachette Livre and Amazon in the UK is continuing, with authors, agents and fellow publishers increasingly backing Hachette against the online retailer.
Costco to open in Australia mid-2009
Costco, the US wholesale chain, has announced that it will open its first Australian outlet in Melbourne's Docklands by mid-2009. The arrival of the retailer in Australia has been mooted for som...
UK publishers fight Amazon on terms
Publishers in the UK are fighting Amazon as it presses them for extra discount. 'It is going from publisher to publisher with extortionate demands, and if it does manage to get a figure from one publi...
Author asks Amazon to stop selling his book at a discount
Author Dave Patton has asked Amazon to stop selling his book How to Market Your Business after the internet giant discounted it heavily. 'If they'd read my book, they would know that you only discount...
Travel publishers 'missing out on £19 million'
Travel publishers in the UK have missed out on a reported £19 million (A$38.6 million) in sales last year due to discounting, according to the second annual Travel Publishing Yearbook....
Amazon adds voucher to Harry Potter offer
Amazon.com has announced that it has taken more than 1.6 million pre-orders worldwide for HP7, and is now offering US customers an additional US$5 voucher on top of the heavily discounted price o...
Amazon admits to zero profit on a million Potters
Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos has told the company's shareholders that Amazon won't make a cent out of the final Harry Potter book, despite taking over a million pre-orders.
Potter article sparks bookseller outrage
An article on Harry Potter discounting that appeared in the ‘QWeekend' magazine of Queensland's Courier Mail on Saturday has raised the ire of booksellers nationwide and prompted a flood of comm...
Support for Hachette UK in Amazon dispute
Fellow publishers and literary agents have spoken in support of Hachette Livre UK in its dispute with Amazon.co.uk over terms of trade.
The cost of free
'Zero is not just another price,' writes Dan Ariely in the Guardian, in an extract from his book Predictably Irrational.
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