Saturday, March 07, 2015

The Roundup with PW

Peter Usborne to Receive LBF Lifetime Achievement Award
The London Book Fair is awarding Peter Usborne, founder and managing director of Usborne Publishing, its 12th annual Lifetime Achievement Award in International Publishing. »


E-books Are Services, Not Goods, Says EU: Electronic books cannot benefit from the same reduced rate of value-added tax as paper books, the top court of the European Union ruled on Thursday.

New Rowling Novel Coming?: The Harry Potter author alluded in a tweet that she was starting her next novel in honor of World Book Day in the U.K. on Thursday.

Martin Donates First Edition 'Hobbit': George R.R. Martin has donated one of only 1,500 first editions printed of J.R.R. Tolkien's 'The Hobbit' to Texas A&M University.

Jonathan Galassi as Debut Novelist: The publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux talks to the 'Observer' about his first novel 'Muse,' to be released by Knopf in June.

Amazon Opens Store on Alibaba's Tmall: Amazon opened a store on Alibaba's business-to-consumer platform Tmall on Thursday in a move that analysts say will boost awareness of its brand in China.




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