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In a surprising turnaround, in Virginia, “A bill to force online retailers such as Amazon to collect the same sales taxes that mall discount stores and corner bookstores must assess from… Read more »

The Bookseller reports that Orna Ross, a former literary agent and twice Penguin-published, now self-published author, is soon to launch the first non-profit organisation representing self-published authors’ interests, The Alliance… 2 / Read more »

“His ‘killingly fair-minded and viciously funny” review of the Pulitzer prize-winning author Michael Cunningham’s latest book, By Nightfall, has won novelist and critic Adam Mars-Jones the inaugural Hatchet Job of… Read more »

In the short time since MobyLives first noted the rumors about Amazon “All-Brick-And-Mortar-Retail-Must-Die” Dotcom opening a, er, brick-and-mortar retail outlet — you know, a store — rumors have intensified to… Read more »

An extraordinary Associated Press obituary of John Sargent Sr., who was the CEO of Doubleday from 1963-78 and published everyone from Dwight D. Eisenhower to Stephen King, and hired Jacqueline Kennedy… Read more »

Best (giant) publishers to work for Bring a friend to a bookstore B&N gets support from Microsoft in Nook patent case Could Amazon “miss out on the all-digital media future… Read more »