| Surprising ideas emerged at the recent World E-Reading Congress in London, including advocacy for sustaining print books, abandoning DRM, partnering and more. Read more » |
On the eve of the Madrid Book Fair, amid economic pressure, Spanish booksellers and others in the book business are bursting with ill will toward Amazon. |
| Left with no other bidders, Italy's RCS Mediagroup must decide whether Gallimard's offer of 200 million euros for Flammarion is enough to justify letting it go. |
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