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...Amazonians are really good at selling books online, and publishers love them for it. But because Amazon is so much better than anybody else at selling books online - last year, it owned 43% of that market, according to the bibliographic-information company R.R. Bowker - it has a lot of power at the negotiating table. All retailers get discounts from their wholesalers, but some publishers think the discounts Amazon asks for are getting too deep. "They're fast approaching the point where we just can't afford to do business with them," says a well-known New York book editor...
...Orwell kept different diaries for different things. "His domestic diaries show that Orwell was a very enthusiastic and conscientious gardener and farmer," says Gordon Bowker, one of Orwell's many biographers. "He would detail the state of the weather, what he had planted, what needed to be pruned, etc." Orwell's political diaries, which will start appearing from Sept. 7, chronicle his daily thoughts on Europe's descent into World War II. Those writings, says Bowker, are based mostly on the many newspapers Orwell read and show him "trying out his political ideas...
...week - he was born June 25, 1903, in Motihari, India, where his father was an opium agent for the British Raj - has brought a tide of conferences, articles and books on the man and his legacy. Chief among them are two engrossing biographies: George Orwell by British author Gordon Bowker (Little, Brown; 495 pages) and Orwell: The Life by British novelist and critic D.J. Taylor (Chatto & Windus; 466 pages). Also stoking the fire are two slimmer works: Why Orwell Matters by polemicist Christopher Hitchens (Basic Books; 211 pages) and an entertaining look at Orwell's second wife Sonia, The Girl...
...prices in half. Trouble is, all that demand led to a customer service "meltdown"-Branson's word-and Britain's newspapers were quick to report "chaos" in the rail system. "When Harrods has a sale on and there's a line outside, you don't hear anyone whingeing," says Bowker...
...Bowker reckons that if Branson's stakes in his various companies were put on the public markets, they'd be worth roughly $3 billion. That would make Virgin a medium-to-big sized company. What's remarkable is how Branson created all this value. He put up only $26 million of the more than $90 million that created Virgin trains, but he owns half of it. He also has half of Virgin Direct, for which he says the Australian firm AMP provided most of the funding. Taking Virgin Mobile phones to Asia, Branson got Singapore Telecom, like Singapore...