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Last updated 24.07.08

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Strong international growth at Amazon

Amazon.com's international sales continued to outpace its US sales, with media sales alone up by 38%, according to second-quarter results released by the internet retailer.

Robert Downey Jr returns advance

Robert Downey Jr has postponed plans to write a memoir and has returned his advance to publisher...

Libraries booming in Canada

Business is booming at Canada's major public libraries, which credit everything from the high...

Authors Guild warns over S&S e-move

The US-based Authors Guild is once again heading for a clash with the US publisher Simon &...

Kay Ryan is next American poet laureate

Kay Ryan, an award-winning poet, mountain bike rider and self-described "modern hermit" has...

International Blogs

Last updated 22.07.08

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E PURCELL

Irish arts still smiling

Will a slow-down in Ireland squeeze arts funding for the country's publishers?

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Chen Gang

Why Bertelsmann's China trip turned sour

Bertelsmann's China dream did not live up to expectations: where did it go wrong.

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Gary Cummiskey

Three into one just about goes

This year's Cape Town Book Fair welcomed more visitors than ever before: but some would prefer...

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In Depth

Last updated 14.03.08

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Editis rises again to face future

French publisher Editis must feel like a phoenix: once part of the defunct Vivendi empire, under new parent the investment group Wendel, the publisher of Khaled Hosseni and Harlan Coben in France has risen again to the point where it is talked...

Siri Hustvedt: The tricks of the mind

Five years after her success with the novel What I Loved, American writer Siri Hustvedt has returned with a fresh tale of creative exploration and subtle psychology set among the intellectual élite of New York. The Sorrows of...

Found in translation . . .

Riccardo Cavallero greets me in a hotel lobby in Vitorio, Spain, looking relaxed and happy. Of course, the Random House Mondadori (RHM) c.e.o. has every reason to be cheerful. RHM imprint Plaza & Janés has just released Ken...