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Iain Banks Dies Of Cancer Aged 59
www.bbc.co.uk

Author Iain Banks has died aged 59, two months after announcing he had terminal cancer

Irish Author Kevin Barry Wins Impac Literary Award
www.bbc.co.uk

Irish author Kevin Barry has won the 100,000 euro (£81,000) International Impac Dublin Literary Award

AM Homes wins Women's Prize for Fiction with 'dazzling' satire
www.bbc.co.uk

US author wins with May We Be Forgiven, beating bookmakers' favourite Bringing Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel

Waterstones Starts Consultations Over Jobs With Staff
www.independent.co.uk

Hundreds of jobs could go at Waterstones

Trade Announcements

Quercus Thanks The Independent Alliance As They Bring All Sales Functions In House

2013 Scottish Children's Book Awards - Shortlist Announced

Collins & Brown Win Best Craft Publisher

Bloomsbury Acquires Take Back The Skies, Epic Fantasy Adventure

Scottish Children's Imprint Celebrates 10th Anniversary And Announces New Teen List

LBF, UK PA And British Council Boost LBF Korea Market Focus 2014's Profile At Seoul Book Fair

Myriad Editions Signs Debut Novel By Prize-Winning Local Playwright

2013 Prime Minister's Literary Awards Shortlists Announced

Weidenfeld & Nicolson To Publish New Hairy Bikers Diet Book

Bernard Sumner, Lead Singer Of New Order, To Publish Autobiography

Edinburgh University Press Appointment

The Random House Group Wins Employee Benefits' Best Work-life Balance Strategy Award

THE RED MEN Film Rights Acquired By Warp Films

Choc Lit Keep The Heart Pounding With New Signing

Brazil's Foremost Literature Festival Launches In Uk With Flipside, 4-6 October 2013

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Opinion

Secret 'White Glove' deals between Amazon and the Literary Agents.
andrewcrofts.blogspot.com

It is my belief that almost all the innovations that Amazon has brought-to/forced-on the publishing and bookselling industries over the last couple of decades have eventually worked to the advantage of authors and readers.

Survivorship Bias: Why 90% Of The Advice About Writing Is Bullshit Right Now
www.tobiasbuckell.com

Practically no one is making any money

The Real Reason Our Shops Are Shutting Up
www.telegraph.co.uk

It's easy to blame the internet, but soaring rates and rents are crippling high street retailers

Feature Items

Meike Ziervogel Writes For Pen Atlas On The Art Of The Novella
www.englishpen.org

Meike Ziervogel, Publisher of Peirene Press writes for the PEN Atlas about her passion for novellas

From Suffolk book plant to British readers but will novel generate UK tax?
www.guardian.co.uk

Journey of new novel shows how book printed and published in Britain – and bought on Amazon – is taxed in Luxembourg

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