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The Works To Go On Sale For £80m After Fast Turnaround
www.independent.co.uk

Significant turnaround at the 270-store chain that fell into administration in January 2008

Wylie Threatens Broad Digital Expansion
www.ft.com

His digital publishing business to include up to 2,000 titles if traditional publishers refuse to improve digital royalties

Amazon Says Ebook Sales To Overtake Paperbacks By Next Year
www.pocket-lint.com

And to eclipse combined hardback and paperback sales shortly after that in the US

Amazon Launches UK Version Of Kindle
www.telegraph.co.uk

And Kindle 3 gets a sleek new look

Two Telegraph bloggers, Harry Mount and Michael Deacon, ask why - if HBO can find brilliant writers - today's novels are such junk

Can Amazon Turn Ebooks Mainstream?
www.guardian.co.uk

Anyone unlucky enough to commute will know that dead tree media still rule the roost

Will The Book Survive?
www.thedailybeast.com

Books of all sorts are here to stay and we should embrace the change—and keep on reading

Pink Book Covers Make Me See Red
www.guardian.co.uk

Why can't publishers serve fiction for girls without a simpering array of pearly grins and pony-tails? Enough candy-coating

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Books in the Media

Judith Kerr, Talking Tigers And Tea
www.guardian.co.uk

The much beloved author of The Tiger Who Came to Tea and the Mog books, still going strong at 86, tells Alison Flood about her new book

Warren Beatty Slept With 12,775 Women, Claims Biographer
www.guardian.co.uk

Hollywood star's sexual conquests said to have included Isabelle Adjani, Diane Keaton and Madonna

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Obituaries

Knox Burger, Agent And Book Editor, Dies At 87
www.nytimes.com

Died on Jan. 4 in Manhattan at the age of 87 after enduring a number of medical problems

Geoffrey Moorhouse
www.telegraph.co.uk

Geoffrey Moorhouse, who died on November 26 aged 77, was a greatly talented writer on the wide variety of subjects that snared his interest

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Penguin Boss Has No Problem With Ebooks
www.guardian.co.uk

John Makinson says that if people want to read using new technology, that's what publishers must give them

E-books Fly Beyond Mere Text
www.nytimes.com

E-books of the latest generation are so brand new that publishers can't agree on what to call them

In Defense Of Amazon
www.tnr.com

The corporate behemoth isn't to blame for the book industry's failures

The Fine Art Of Recommending Books
www.salon.com

Pairing the right reader with the right book is too delicate a task to leave to e-commerce robots

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