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Night at the bookshop: Waterstones stages a sleepover after a tourist got trapped in the store

21 Oct 2014: After an American tourist got locked in to one of their bookshops, Waterstones are inviting volunteers for a sleepover. Here are ten short books you could read in an evening – but what would you do if you could spend the night in a bookshop? Let us know in the comments below
US tourist locked inside London bookshop

17 Oct 2014: Police called to store after David Willis from Texas tweeted for help from Waterstones in Trafalgar Square
Bookshops hope ‘super Thursday’ will help start a new chapter for publishing

5 Oct 2014: Hardback titles by the likes of John Cleese and Jacqueline Wilson go on sale in race for Christmas bestseller lists
James Patterson gives away £130,000 to independent bookshops

26 Sep 2014: US thriller author makes grants to shops in UK and Ireland that have a dedicated children’s section in bid to encourage reading
Comic David Mitchell rails at Amazon’s ‘cynical … life-crushing’ business style

23 Sep 2014: Online giant operates a ‘rapacious near monopoly’, the Observer columnist and Peep Show star tells Booksellers conference, reports Alison Flood
Orwell estate hits back at Amazon's corporate 'doublespeak'

14 Aug 2014: Internet retailer accused of using tactics from Orwell's 1984 in war of words with the publisher Hachette
Are you a page-hugger or page-turner? I've got the summer beach read for you

9 Aug 2014: Edan Lepucki: What I learned at the bookstore – and from Stephen Colbert: books in the warmest months need not be warm and distracting, so long as they let you reflect
A volume of Das Kapital becomes a $40,000 commodity fetish: what would Karl Marx have said?

16 Jul 2014:
The sale by Abebooks turns the monumental critique of capitalism into rich profit for one giant private owner, writes Lindesay Irvine
How to get ahead – or at least stay afloat – in the rare book trade

14 Jul 2014:
Rick Gekoski: After three decades in what's not quite a proper job, I don't have any formula for success. But I have had some instructive experience
Amazon and Hachette take ebooks battle into public domain

9 Jul 2014: News: The stand-off between the internet retail giant and the publishing corporation has drawn both sides into open contention over commercial terms
Amazon's battle with Hachette is a fight for readers, writers and retailers

8 Jul 2014:
Hugh Howey: As things stand, Hachette is making ebook discounts impossible, and almost everybody else stands to lose
Amazon-Hachette fight deepens as authors take sides

4 Jul 2014: As Philip Pullman, Stephen King and James Patterson back traditional publishers, self-published authors support retail giant
Amazon says its delivery delays on Hachette books will benefit readers

3 Jul 2014: Slowed despatch of publisher's books said to be 'in the long-term interest of consumers'
Authors hit the high street to celebrate independent booksellers

27 Jun 2014: Kate Atkinson, Margaret Drabble and Jeremy Paxman just some of the writers appearing in bookshops across the UK during Independent Booksellers Week
Donations won't save independent bookshops, but readers can

27 Jun 2014: Emma Chapman: James Patterson's £250,000 handout is welcome, but Amazon will triumph unless we think more about where we buy books