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• Amazon to monetize fan fiction, he moaned

  “Blair,” Jeff whispered, his lips almost touching her earlobe, “I have something I need to tell you.” “Jeff, please,” Blair danced away. She laughed coyly, mercilessly. They’d both had too… Read more »

• UK indie booksellers protest Amazon’s tax avoidance

  Last week I reported on the astonishing and inexplicable news that Amazon’s UK operation received more money in government grants than it paid in tax. Since those reports came in,… Read more »

• ‘Just a joke’: Amazon gets more money from UK government grants than it pays in tax

  In the continuing saga of Amazon’s tax dodging (see here and here for just a couple of our reports on this), it was revealed this week that the company’s UK operation made £4.2bn in sales… Read more »

• Amazon employees strike in Germany

  More than 1,000 staffers at two German Amazon warehouses walked off the job Tuesday in a one-day work stoppage. The workers are seeking higher pay and collective bargaining agreements, which are… Read more »

• Dan Brown causes price wars, bookshops party like it’s 1999

  There are loads of things we predicted the new Dan Brown novel would bring: clumsy, soul-destroying prose, translators cast into working conditions resembling the pits of hell, Tom Hanks looking… Read more »

• A user’s guide to Amazon Coins

  As we discussed back in February, Amazon has been working on a digital currency specifically for the Kindle Fire, and now it’s finally here. Only three questions remains: how fast… Read more »

• Amazon launches “Kindle Love Stories” podcast and Goodreads book club, eats itself

  You didn’t think that Amazon would just leave Goodreads alone did you, after subsuming it into its gaping maw earlier this year? No, rather than maintaining Goodreads as the user-generated… Read more »

• Microsoft may buy Nook, B&N grows hair in strange places

  Barnes & Noble has been going through some changes this year. They have been swelling in odd places. They are sometimes angry or sad without knowing why. And people are… Read more »

• Amazon temps sue for backpay, German Amazon strike imminent

  Workers for a temp agency that supplies staff to Amazon warehouses are suing for lost wages, accusing their employer—Integrity Staffing Solutions—of not paying employees “for all the time they actually… Read more »

• Who should get the data from your book purchase?

  According to Cory Doctorow, publishers shouldn’t just be fighting with Amazon over DRM and ebook pricing, but also over data. Specifically, the myriad of information that online booksellers collect about… Read more »