Extraordinary
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| Originally published | August 13, 2013 |
| Authors | David Gilmour |
| Genres | Psychological Fiction |
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| ID | 2244979 |
About Extraordinary
From a Governor General's Award–winning author comes a heart-rending novel about family, children and the end of life. Over the course of one Saturday night, a man and his half-sister meet at her request to spend the evening preparing for her assisted death. . . .
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Amazon £250,000 to bookshops funds stunned trade
Online retailer Amazon, accusing the long, brick-and-mortar book sales, has stunned the industry by making a donation of £250,000 to a Fund to support the bookstores hit by coronavirus.
The tech giant first, the donation made on a "low-key" basis, said The Book trade charity.
But speculation grew, The Charity revealed that Amazon was The Donor .
Chief executive David Hicks said he realized that some of The Book sellers would find it difficult.
He told The Bbc that The Book trade charity, to help The Book industry, from publishers, bookshops.
As part of its efforts, it runs a Fund to help The Book dealer in the financial distress after being forced to close by the pandemic.
Mr Hicks said: "Amazon came to us and said that she would like to help some money in our Fund, especially in This Time and that you would prefer it to be low-key. "
As a result of The Charity to avoid naming Amazon tried, although the company had not insisted on anonymity, said he.
However, that the policy is easily led to more questions, especially after The Trade publication, the bookseller, ran to tell A Story , a mystery donor had contributed £250,000 to £380,000 raised So Far .
Mr Hicks said he was accepting "very satisfied" to the donation, in the interests of The Charity .
But, he added, he was "aware of the fact that the not give a little of the difficulty of some of the booksellers".
"A large part of The Trade , especially on the publishing side, working very closely with Amazon," He Said .
"But The Book trade has a rather strained relationship. "
The message was already aroused, some reactions in The Book trade, among other things, from The Editor , the bookseller, Philip Jones, who tweeted that it was "Extraordinary ".
uk high streets, coronavirus pandemic, amazon, companies
Source of news: bbc.com