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Amazon, taxes and independent record shops
Amazon.co.uk front page on 16th November 2012 In Parliament on 5th November Charlie Elphicke, the Conservative MP for Dover, estimated Amazon paid £1.9m in taxes in the UK last year on an estimated...
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Record Store Day Black Friday – how it unfolded in the US
Yesterday in Britain we saw perhaps a glimpse of another American import arriving on our shores: “Black Friday”. The name might conjure up vague notions of stock market crashes, but in the United...
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HMV in trouble: why independent record shops should care
HMV reported depressing figures: what does this mean for independent music shops? Copyright: Byrion Smith, reused under Creative Commons HMV is under threat, it was reported last week. HMV Group made a...
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Booksellers’ petition garners 100,000+ signatures
Amazon is not having an easy couple of months. Over a hundred thousand people An Amazon box. Image: Flickr user xsas have signed a petition run by two Coventry booksellers urging Amazon ”to pay their...
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Do you have Amazon-induced guilt?
The interior of London’s Daunt Books (Image: spektrograf under flickr cc) I present you, readers, with a conundrum. What do you do if you love reading, love holding a physical book in your hands and...
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Booksellers’ petition reaches PM
Image: Mrs. Knook under flickr cc Remember the petition featured on Independent Everything earlier this month? The one started by two independent booksellers urging Amazon to pay its fair share of...
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