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Saturday 28th January

Latest News

B&N to ink first overseas Nook deal with Waterstones?
www.crainsnewyork.com

Barnes & Noble is developing a partnership with U.K.'s Waterstones Booksellers Ltd. to sell the digital tablet in its 300 locations this year

Costa Prize: Andrew Miller Takes Award For Novel Pure
www.bbc.co.uk

Andrew Miller has won the £30,000 Costa Book of the Year Award for his novel Pure, set in a Parisian cemetery in the run up to the French revolution

Apple: iBooks 2 will 'reinvent textbooks'
www.guardian.co.uk

Although price is likely to be a barrier, the software will let students watch videos and take notes inside the virtual books

Kobo Targets 10 New Countries In 2012
publishingperspectives.com

Japan and Brazil 'Likely'

Other News

Goodreads moves away from Amazon API for book data over restrictive terms of use

Palestinian Bookshop Owner Celebrates Jerusalem Residency Ruling

War Horse Film Boosts Book Sales

Booked Into John Lewis Model

'Re-think schools library service closure' Hertfordshire Council urged

Joey Barton Tells Kids To Get Their Teeth Into Dracula

Weak Publishing Results Hurt Courier

BEA Buys Book Blogger Conference

Web economy 'to double by 2016'

Roald Dahl and CS Lewis among writers revealed to have refused honours

Library Ideas Launches E-book Service For Libraries

Caviar, Vodka, Books

WHSmith top line expected to rise over the next five years

City University London Announces UK's First Degree Tailored To Aspiring Crime Novelists

2012 Sami Rohr Prize For Jewish Literature Finalists

Trade Announcements

'Intoxicating' Debut Novel Inspired By Silent Film To Serpent's Tail

The London Book Fair Announces New Non-executive Chairman As Simon Master Steps Down

Bob McDevitt Joining Jenny Brown Associates

Writers And ALCS Line Up Against Proposed Government Amendments To Educational Copyright

Andrew Miller Wins 2011 Costa Book Of The Year

Kobo Continues International Expansion

Hennessey Acquires Swedish Crime Series In First Signing For Harvill Secker

Shehan Karunatilaka Awarded The DSC Prize For South Asian Literature 2012

University Publishing Online Adds A Further Six Academic Presses To Its Portfolio

Cape Announce Acquisition Of Theatre Of The Gods By Matt Suddain

Doubleday Acquires If I Close My Eyes Now By Brazilian Author And TV Presenter Edney Silvestre

William Hill Release Latest Odds For Costa Book Of The Year

Indigo Acquires Back To Blackbrick By Sarah Moore Fitzgerald

The Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival Announces 2012 Line-up

Winners Announced For First Annual Tibor Jones South Asia Prize

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Opinion

We Should All Be In The Publishing Conference Business
www.futurebook.net

With 1500 attendees paying up to $1495 per person to be at DBW there is still money in publishing somewhere

Hard Done By? About Apple's Ibooks Author EULA
www.loopinsight.com

Use Apple's tools, sell your product, and give Apple the money it deserves for providing you with a way to make and sell it

Apple's Evil Sabotage
copyfight.corante.com

Still think using iBooks is a good idea?

The Cult Of Amazon Prime
www.launch.is

Our leader is Bezos

Books in the Media

Parenting Guru Bryan Caplan Prescribes Less Fuss – And More Fun
www.guardian.co.uk

Economist Bryan Caplan argues that nurture counts for so little that parents can 'cut themselves a lot of slack'

Sir Patrick Moore: In Tune With Music Of The Spheres
www.independent.co.uk

He played piano with Einstein and counts rock icons among his friends. But for Britain's best-loved astronomer, the stars in the sky are all that matter

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Obituaries

Peter Burton
www.independent.co.uk

Writer and publisher who championed gay literature for over 35 years

Michael Legat
www.booktrade.info

And what, asked Michael, do they do in publishing? "They read books and go to cocktail parties," said the Careers Master, which sounded like just the sort of thing Michael had in mind.

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Feature Items

The Link Between Metadata And Sales
www.nielsenbookdata.co.uk

Nielsen has released the results of its findings in a White Paper: The Link Between Metadata and Sales

Top Self-published Kindle Ebooks Of 2011
ebookfriendly.com

Average price of a self-published book in 2011 was $1.40, vs. $8.26 for all books in Top 100

When Publishers, Authors And Agents Can't Agree On A Book Title
www.thenervousbreakdown.com

Borrowing from REM's Songbook

Publisher Alert: Arvo Basim Yayin Of Turkey
accrispin.blogspot.com

Beware of foreign publishers bearing gifts

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