Edward Nawotka

It appears that Amazon’s warehouses are the global book distribution chain’s equivalent of modern day sweatshops. Earlier this week Amazon fired its German security firm after a documentary film crew from ARD tied it to a far right wing group. The film crew revealed that seasonal workers hired by an Amazon subcontractor in Germany, many of whom were previously unemployed, were driven around Germany in buses, housed in poor conditions and kept under constant surveillance by the aforementioned security guards.

The Financial Times notes in their report on the firing:

Publishing Perspectives has an article discussing various new tools for electronic research. Though this isn’t directly connected to e-books, in a separate discussion seed post editor in chief Edward Nawotka draws a parallel between the problems of researchers sifting through reams of data to find what they need and readers confronted by a million zillion [...]

Today’s feature story looks at the upcoming World E-reading Congress in London. The article notes that among the speakers will be agent Charlie Campell of the Ed Victor Agency and Bedford Square Books. He notes that one of the titles published by BSB — Louise Fennell’s Dead Rich, was picked up for sale by UK retail giant Tesco, “traditional publishers took notice, and Simon & Schuster approached the agency who then struck a conventional publishing deal.” What’s interesting about this statement  …

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