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UK ebook price war 'absurd'; 'industry populated by nincompoops'
The discouting war on ebbok prices in the UK, led by W H Smith in an effort to undercut Amazon, has been labelled 'absurd' by publishers.
W H Smith slashes ebook prices
Uk retailer W H Smith has slashed the prices of its top 100 fiction e-books by 66%, sparking a new discounting war in the UK trade.
WH Smith sales continue to fall
UK book retailer WH Smith is continuing to report falling sales, with figures slumping a further 4% in the last 14 weeks.
WH Smith sales down another 4%
UK high-street bookselling continues to be in the doldrums, with WH Smith reportinghalf-yearly figures down by 4%.
WHSmith Xmas sales drop 5%
Christmas season sales for UK retailer WHSmith dropped by 5% on previous years.
UK fair trading office won't investigate WHSmith/Penguin travel book deal
The UK's Office of Fair Trading has decided not to pursue an investigation into WHSmith's deal with Penguin to only stock Penguin travel guides at its airport stores, despite finding that the complain...
TRavel publishers and authors upset by WHSmith/Penguin exclusive deal
Following last week's revelation that UK chain WHSmith's will now sell Penguin travel guides exclusively at its travel outlets, other travel book publishers and travel writers have voiced their concen...
Book sales drop 3% at WHSmith
British book retail chain WHSmith has seen its book sales drop 3% in the past six months.
WHSmith gets Heathrow monoply
WHSmith has gained a monoply on bookselling at London's Heathrow airport, worrying publishers, with one telling Book Brunch 'WHS terms are already pretty ghastly. The attitude, particularly at Travel,...
WHSmith Xmas book sales down 3%
UK retail chain WHSmith has reported poor figures for Christmas 2008, with like-for-like sales dropping 5% over the 20 weeks to 17th January. Group total sales were flat for the period. Like-for-like ...
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