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How traditional bookshops survived the Amazon onslaught
- Retail & Services
- June 11, 2019, 16:31
To anyone who remembers the chaotic old Foyles bookstore in central London, its new incarnation a few doors further up Charing Cross Road is a remarka(...)

Planet Business: alternative facts and a dash of Musk
- Economy
- January 27, 2017, 06:43
Image of the week: Mission to Mars The man second from right is the president of the US, apparently – so they say – while the man on the far left is (...)

Taxamo extends to non-EU sellers
- Technology
- June 18, 2015, 01:11
Kerry-based digital tax company Taxamo is to help non-EU-based online sellers comply with rules obliging them to pay VAT based on the buyer’s locatio(...)

Sinead O’Connor to keep sex life beneath, not between, the covers
- Books
- October 9, 2014, 11:10
Celebrities with merely one autobiography are barely worthy of the name but Sinead O’Connor has now broken new ground by revising her memoirs before t(...)

Books that are loved by teenage girls tend not to be taken very seriously, unless they start selling millions of copies. American author John G(...)

US court denies Apple’s bid to delay e-books damages trial
- Technology
- May 30, 2014, 07:21
A US appeals court has rejected Apple’s bid to delay a July trial to determine damages after the company was found to have colluded to fix the prices (...)

Sue Townsend, creator of Adrian Mole series, dies aged 68
- Books
- April 11, 2014, 08:10
Novelist Sue Townsend, best known as the author of the Adrian Mole series of books, has died, according to a family friend. The 68-year-o(...)

Gill takeover is a good news story
- Books
- August 24, 2013, 01:00
At the end of last month Hodder Moa, the New Zealand-based imprint of Hachette, announced that it was closing its doors. The move meant that editors i(...)

Apple organised price-fixing of e-books, ruling finds
- Technology
- July 10, 2013, 19:43
Apple, the world’s biggest technology company, orchestrated a scheme with publishers to fix the prices of electronic books, a federal judge ruled in (...)

Apple ‘conspired’ to raise prices on e-books
- Media & Marketing
- July 10, 2013, 15:01
A federal judge has ruled that Apple conspired to raise the retail prices of e-books in violation of antitrust law, and called for a trial on damages(...)