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NEWSGOOGLE TO START CHARGING FOR ONLINE BOOKS11:13AM, Friday 7th September 2007Google is to start charging users for full access to online books. According to the New York Times, publishers will be able to set the price of their books and share the income with Google.
Google has declined to comment on the reports. If true, however, the move will provide the first real test of whether there really is a market for digital books. Amazon certainly hopes so. The internet retail giant plans to launch an eBook reader in October. The Kindle is expected to cost between $400 and $500 and will wirelessly connect to an eBook store on the Amazon website. THE HIDDEN PRICE OF A CHRISTMAS BEST SELLERBen Hoyle and Sarah ClarkeEvery day thousands of shoppers decide to buy a new book because Waterstone’s prominently displays or recommends it. IMRG: ONLINE SHOPPING - £100 BILLION AND COUNTINGIMRG SPECIAL REPORT - £100 BN SPENT ONLINE SINCE 1995APRIL SALES UP 55%E-RETAIL RETROSPECTIVEBritish shoppers have spent £100 billion online in the 12 years that it has been possible to do so, since April 1995. Online sales worth £3.465 billion were recorded for April 2007 by the IMRG Index, indicating that the all-time total will reach £100 billion by the time this report is published, in May. "This is an astonishing landmark," commented Jo Evans, IMRG's MD, who directs the Index programme. "It's been obvious for a couple of decades that a secure, networked consumer marketplace would arrive and be popular, but actually witnessing its profound success and meteoric growth still takes my breath away. April's online sales were worth about the same in one month as London's West End takes in a year. Your name hereBy Stephen Dowling Even in the age of MySpace and blogging - where innermost thoughts can be made public without the help of an agent or publishing house - every year thousands of people in the UK start writing a novel. It is a journey few will finish, so why do they bother?
There are over 450 people crammed into a room at the Earl's Court Exhibitions Centre on a blazingly bright spring morning. Many are here because of that most potent of writer's fantasies - walking into a bookshop and seeing their name on an upright spine. M-Y Books international trading partners:-Amazon.co.ukAllibris.com Google's Books in Print Blackwells On line Gardners Books wholesalers Bertrams Books Abebooks.com Book trade news from Book2Book |
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WOTCHA!by Kevin Saunders Wotcha - a contraction of the 15th century English greeting what chere be with you? Watcher n - a person who watches or observes somebody or something. A voyeur.
Say WOTCHA! to Bart Raines, who's condemned forever to be a watcher after a childhood prank left his eyelid glued to his beloved telescope. Stuck with one eye that can't not see, he s turned voyeurism into a lucrative blackmail industry. Say WOTCHA! to former rock star, avid coke fiend, Richard "Winston" Smith who's watched by millions - among them erstwhile school friend Bart, who's orchestrating revenge for Winston's teenage betrayal through the sinister global surveillance network he calls the Daisy Chain.Say WOTCHA! to high class whore Daisy Chains (neé Raines) and her teenage son Joe, who's abducted along with his girlfriend by a sinister Christian cult, which leaves the kids to die, hogtied and helpless in a derelict drainage tunnel slowly filling with sewage. Watched by the world's media, Winston, Daisy and Bart reunite to use fame and the Daisy Chain to save two teenage lives - and their own souls - from the filth that s about to drown them. Wotcha! is a comic spit in the eye of born again zealots with a wink and a twinkle to the rest of us - but it s also deadly serious. Mining a rich seam of coal-black humour and sex, drugs and rock and roll, it starts on a bitter-sweet nostalgia trip and builds up to the pace of a thriller. CONTROVERSIAL STUFF? Its themes and explicit language make this a candidate for one of those parental advisory stickers they put on CDs these days. Does that make WOTCHA! a book that people aged under sixteen shouldn't read? In the author's opinion - absolutely not. If rude words and references to sex, drugs and rock and roll upset you per se, this book s not for you. But if you believe, as I do, that a sense of humour is what separates naughty from evil , I think you might enjoy this story, laugh at the funny bits, think about the serious bits and read the redemption between the lines.Read reviews of Wotcha! by Kev Saunders
Al SamakBy Brian NicholsonA fast-paced, intriguing and nail-biting work of fiction about the desperate search for 'the smoking gun' in Iraq during the summer of 2002, some nine months before the invasion in March 2003. The man with all the experience to bring you this convincing and authentic story is the writer Brian Nicholson. On the last page you must choose - is it fact or fiction?
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