The Irish Times

Great books to give the gardener in your life this Christmas

Here’s a round-up of some of the best gardening books of 2021, from sustainability to dried flowers

Sat Dec 11 2021 - 06:00

Amazon has plenty to celebrate as it turns 20

Once a niche supplier, Amazon is now part of the everyday shopping landscape

Wed Jul 15 2015 - 01:03

Amazon and Hachette resolve standoff with multi-year US deal

Dispute had cut off supplies of some of publisher’s books

Thu Nov 13 2014 - 18:10

Amazon hurting readers and authors alike by putting squeeze on publishers

Book sales depend on word of mouth and online retailer has power to kill buzz

Tue Oct 21 2014 - 01:00

Issues and questions of the week: Are the days of the book numbered?

Should Amazon’s latest attempt to dominate the ebook market make us fear for the written word?

Sat Sept 27 2014 - 01:00

Amazon, the company that changed how we shop

Twenty years ago, a former Wall Street trader sold a book over the internet. With this first sale on Amazon, Jeff Bezos changed the world

Mon Sept 01 2014 - 01:00

Word for Word: Authors unite against Amazon’s Hachette job

Bestselling writers have taken the giant online bookseller to task for its tactics

Sat Aug 16 2014 - 01:00

Publishers way behind plot in book business

Opinion: authors should back Amazon in the battle with Hachette

Wed Aug 13 2014 - 01:00

Disney joins dispute with Amazon over supplies

Entertainment giant joins publisher Hachette and Warner Brothers in dispute with web retailer

Tue Aug 12 2014 - 02:14

Amazon’s pricing spat heats up as Disney enters the fray

Online retailer has halted pre-orders of some Disney movies as it wages battle against Hachette

Mon Aug 11 2014 - 12:39

Stark ebook choice for writers: publish and be damned anyway

According to Harper Lee 'some things should happen on soft pages not cold metal'. Her dissenting voice is one of many as digitisation proceeds in its ungainly fashion

Sat Aug 09 2014 - 01:00

Ebooks: What do Mark Twain and ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ have in common?

‘New ways’ of publishing have roots in subscription services that are centuries old

Mon Jul 14 2014 - 10:58

Amazon uses delay tactics to bring German publishing group to book

Delays in deliveries look like a tactic by US retail giant to get a bigger cut of Bonnier group’s ebook proceeds

Thu May 29 2014 - 01:05