If Amazon Source represented the only path through which independent booksellers could access the e-book market, Amazon's two-year deal might make more sense.
Then there was his mock-heroic poem "La Pucelle" (1755), a most improper presentation of Joan of Arc (La Pucelle d'Orléans), which the booksellers printed in spite of his protests.
Another alteration was over the legal deposit provisions of the Statute, which many booksellers found unfair.
"They're the things which interest booksellers," he continued, "not which publishers have chucked out a celebrity biography tied in to some arbitrary date in the calendar".
Brenda Peterson is the author of 18 books, including the recent I Want to Be Left Behind, which independent booksellers chose as a "Great Read" and "Indie Next".
Last night was the second annual World Book Night, an event for which authors, booksellers, librarians, publishers and simply passionate literary fiends gave away 500,000 free memoirs, novels and non-fiction titles in the United States and 1 million in the United Kingdom, where it all began last year.
"The Casual Vacancy, which one bookseller breathlessly predicted would be the biggest novel of the year, isn't dreadful.
WH Smith said the explicit titles appeared on its website due to an automated feed from the Kobo website, which the bookseller takes its ebook content from.
[C2.] Small Booksellers Take Fight to Web Independent booksellers, which have fought a two-decades war against chains and, more recently, online booksellers, are seeking to gain ground on the Internet with two large-scale Web sites.
Booksellers, which have been hard hit by Amazon's steep discounting, are watching anxiously.
