It came as a surprise a couple of months ago when pre-eminent UK bookstore chain Waterstones announced it would be entering a partnership with Amazon to sell Kindles. Now that the shock has worn off, Publishing Perspectives reports, a number of UK publ…
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Good for James Daunt, managing director of Waterstones! He stunned the book world on both sides of the pond last month when he announced a deal with Amazon to sell Kindles and Kindle eBooks in the 300 Waterstones stores. Many commentators helpfully pointed out that he had once described Amazon as a “ruthless, money-making devil.” [...]
News – 1) Waterstones, the biggest bookseller in the United Kingdom, announces it will be selling Kindles and Kindle eBooks via WiFi at its approximately 300 stores. Managing Director James Daunt a year ago told the BBC the company was planning to create a better eReader than the Kindle. The Economist headlines the story “Strange [...]
Yesterday I wrote a post that was generally favourable to the deal between Amazon and Waterstones: If I was to think of one single reason for the move being a good though I would say it is this, it allows Waterstones to stand still and observe for a li…
From Shelf Awareness: Waterstones, the last major independent bookstore chain in the U.K., will begin selling Amazon Kindles and e-books in its nearly 300 stores this fall, the companies announced today. Although Kindles are sold in a variety of bric…
The Bookseller has a brief report on a London roundtable in which some publishers and booksellers sounded a warning about library e-book lending. Waterstones m.d. James Daunt said that library e-lending could be disruptive to bricks-and-mortar booksell…
Amazon may not allow EPUBs to be read directly on the Kindle, but it still makes use of them in creating Kindle e-books. Given that they’re pretty much the industry standard for e-books outside of Amazon, it would be foolish of the company not to. PaidContent has a report on Cork, Ireland e-book wholesaling company [...]
