A new chapter in the on-going stoush between on-line retailing giant Amazon and the French publishing house Hachette, opened this week with Hachette boss Michael Pietsch (left) hitting back at accusations that the company is pushing up prices for e-books. “Hachette sets prices for our books entirely on our own, not…
Celebrating book shops
In this world of e-books and e-readers bookshops have become endangered species across the world. Many have already been forced to close but others are taking the battle back to the buying public with events like National Bookshop Day being celebrated right across Australia this Saturday. Many bookshops have planned…