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News Writer insists new work NOT be made available through Amazon: a UK market first

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In an interesting first for the UK market, International Booker Prize winner (2013) Lydia Davis has specified that her new short story collection, Our Strangers, published by Canongate, should be blocked from sale through Amazon. The collection will be available for sale in physical bookshops, Bookshop.org, and other selected online independent retailers.

Edinburgh and London based publisher Canongate said US writer Davis was "deeply concerned about monopolistic bookselling and hopes this decision will both stand as a sign of her solidarity with independent booksellers and encourage further conversation about the vital importance of a diverse publishing ecosystem".

This story was covered at greater length in today's The Bookseller.
 
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