BRAZIL PUBLISHERS AND BOOKSELLERS UNIT TO FIGHT AMAZON AT BOOK FAIR
August 1st, 2014
Brazilian booksellers teamed up at São Paulo’s international book biennial from August 22 to 31 to lobby its government to help protect them against Amazon’s physical and e-book sales service, now serving South America’s largest economy.Amazon launched its physical books service on August 21 with 150,000 titles available, the vast majority on Brazilian Portuguese. This has combined with an ebook service launched in 2012, which has been expanding and now has 35,000 offerings in Brazilian Portuguese.At the show, four Brazilian book-selling associations ...
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