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We feature some of the very best writing from inside the Shed, here on our front page. These are pieces that have earned wide approval and have been workshopped within 'The Lab', part of the Book Shed Forum.
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Category: Online retail
Readers will be invited to download free or reduced price e-books during 'Read an E-Book Week' between 7 and 13 March.
O'Reilly Media has launched a new e-book service, which it claims will aggregate content and push it out to the dynamic marketplace of e-books and other digital channels.
Books etc, an online book retailer that rose from the ashes of the Borders chain has taken its site down less than 48 hours after its launch.
A leading technology analyst has warned publishers not to take a short-term view of the e-publishing market.
Google negotiates with publishers and looks set to take on Apple with the launch of its new electronic bookstore – Google Editions.
The US arm of Hachette has become the latest publisher to sign up to Apple's iBookstore. It's a move that could signal the end of low cost eBooks.
A leading group of consultants has predicted over six million e-book readers will be sold in the United States during 2010.
UK bookseller Waterstone's plans to track the behaviour of website visitors to boost online sales.
Amazon has been forced to u-turn over the pricing of e-books.From The Bookseller
- Former Reed Elsevier chief gets £2.2m sign-off
- Nosy Crow signs up Axel Scheffler for toddler series
- Holland turns to non-fiction in Bantam buy
- Penguin to re-issue The Prisoner novel
- Almond at the double, as authors line up for Astrid Lindgren
- Spring job cuts 'tweaks' not 'second wave'
- Bargains a hit in high street squeeze
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