An authorised but markedly unsanitised biography of VS Naipaul is contending with a history of 20th-century music and an insight into the minds of crows for the world's richest non-fiction book prize.

Publishers are reacting angrily to what one senior executive described as a 'crude' attempt by Amazon to increase its discount. 'It is going from publisher to publisher with extortionate demands, and if it does manage to get a figure from

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Controversial scientist, J. Craig Venter, is one of three newcomers shortlisted for this year's Royal Society Prizes for Science Books.

WH Smith fell 8p to 417p after revealing that Kate Swann, its chief executive, had sold £1million shares, nearly half her holding, at 435.9p each.

UK publishing group Informa is understood to have become a target for private equity, though no formal approaches have been made at this stage.

HarperCollins, one of the premier publishers in the world, is ready to take on the Hindi literary world through its imprint HarperHindi. The imprint is to be launched at Willow Chinar, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road on 15th May.

Lindquist engages eXile readers in unusually frank discussion about Moscow's live entertainment, and offers a few personal suggestions.

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Former Random House executive v-p and chief operating officer for North America Don Weisberg will join Penguin Group USA May 19 as president of the Penguin Young Readers Group, replacing Doug Whiteman, who has been promoted to the newly created

Here's an interesting trend in book jacket design-making it look like somebody has doodled all over the cover, as if it were a high school notebook, or a bored office worker's legal pad.

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