Bill to limit Amazon’s advantage moves forward in France; Reading Group Choices’ 2014 guide out now; National survey details reading habits; NRF predicts modest growth during holidays; Consumers use smartphones, tablets to shop; California Bookstore Day website live; NCAC in New York Times Sunday Dialogue; Thurber Prize goes to Dan Zevin; Penguin Random House merges audio; HarperCollins joins Scribd’s e-book subscription service; Chronicle Books goes green; BISG announces new mission statement, industry award winners, F+W Media partnership

The Association of American University Presses and its members are inviting independent booksellers to join in celebrating the second annual University Press Week, to be held from November 10 through 16.

National Book Foundation names 5 Under 35 honorees; Man Booker Prize shortlist revealed; Survey finds travelers prefer print books; BISG announces Lifetime Achievement Award winner; Promotions champion European bookstores; Judge finalizes restrictions on Apple

Proposed oversight of Apple scaled back by judge; Online retail sales remain low for chain stores

Today show creates book club; Overstock continues play for Amazon customers; Quebec proposes regulation of book prices; Simon & Schuster and Barnes & Noble settle dispute; Small Business Administration names acting administrator; May 2014 damages trial scheduled for Apple

Hachette Book Group is hosting its second annual Reading Group Day on September 7 in partnership with ReadingGroupGuides.com and McNally Jackson Books. Readers will be welcomed to a full day of author panels, speeches, and events.

Bowker releases statistics on consumer book buying; SIBA offering scholarship to fall trade show; Miami Book Fair celebrates 30^th anniversary; Ingram adds new clients; Jeff Bezos to purchase the Washington Post

Binc welcomes new board members; Ingram adds two clients; Miller names imprint Flatiron Books; Rowling accepts charitable donation for identity leak

Maine and Missouri enact affiliate nexus laws; SIBA launches read-aloud program Parapalooza; Man Booker Prize longlist revealed; Romance Writers of America announces RITA, Golden Heart winners; Student spending on textbooks increases; ABFFE asks for transparency from Congress; Amazon loses battle to acquire .amazon Internet suffix

BISG to present first annual industry awards; More students seek illegal alternatives to textbooks; Media Coalition concludes gun violence and media connection flawed; Frommer’s to start releasing print titles; IPG and Trafalgar Square acquire new clients; 2014 BEA Global Market Forum to focus on books in translation; NCAC to host free speech benefit