But I think that when we look back at the history of the e-book market one of the classic business school cases is going to be how stupid it was for publishers to sue Google.

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Andrew Pinder, the "e-Envoy", urged delegates at the Confederation of British Industry conference to back a campaign to persuade Mr Brown of the importance of broadband services.

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If the publishers are cutting back on marketing, which is the biggest complaint authors have, and Amazon stays at eighty per cent of the e-book market, why do you need the publisher?

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