UK politicians slam Amazon
Tolerance of Amazon UK’s tax evasion seems to be decreasing in parliament, though there’s still no sign of the robust legislative kick in the coffers that’s really required. On Tuesday… Read more »
Your reading behaviour is being monitored: Part II
Amazon, Apple and Google track the reading behaviour of their ebook customers.… Read more »
More English-language books being sold than ever … in Brazil
OK, so it hasn’t all been good news in Brazil’s publishing sector lately, but how about this? PublishNewsBrazil announces that, following a decade of radically increasing national spending on education,… Read more »
End of an era for Macmillan dictionaries
Macmillan has announced that as of next year it will no longer print its monolingual dictionaries for learners of English; they’ll be available online only. Editor-in-chief Michael Rundell is quoted… Read more »
Pearson to sell the Financial Times?
Pearson may start the process before the January departure of CEO of sixteen years’ standing Marjorie Scardino… Read more »
The end of the arts in Britain?
Another catastrophically shortsighted policy move from the British government has drawn the ire of the country’s leading arts figures. This time education is the battleground, specifically the new English baccalaureate… Read more »
Vietnamese songwriters jailed
There were more freedom-of-speech violations this week in Vietnam. On Tuesday two songwriters were sent to prison for a combined total of ten years for writing songs critical of the… Read more »
Mo Yan liquor brand fetches $1.6m
If you’ve ever experienced a powerful sense of dread while checking your bank balance after a night of drinking, this might make you feel better.
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World’s most beautiful bookstore celebrates its hundredth birthday
Argentina’s El Ateneo bookstore has just celebrated its hundredth year of trade. Even if you’ve never stepped foot in the legendary librería on Buenos Aires’s Avenida Santa Fé, you’ve probably… Read more »
This one’s pretty sweet: Amazon will soon be deprived of one of its (many) tax-dodging schemes. MobyLives reported earlier this week that Amazon UK had been paying the Luxembourg sales… Read more »