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Hachette UK has "reached an agreement" with Amazon UK, allowing the two companies to resume normal business trading.
A dispute over terms has been ongoing since early 2008, with some key front and backlist titles from across the Hachette Group being available on the Amazon site only via third-party sellers.
In an email to HUK authors and UK agents this morning, Tim Hely Hutchinson, Hachette chief executive, said the agreement "resolves the issues between us in ways that are in keeping with the principles and aims of both parties".
He added: "Thus, our normal good business relationship with Amazon has been restored and all publishers in the HUK group have resumed normal trading with Amazon."
Hely Hutchinson paid tribute to "the patience and understanding" shown by Hachette’s authors "during these unusually lengthy discussions", adding "both we and Amazon are determined to make up for lost time by maximising the sales we make together this year and in the future".
The publisher declined to comment further.
Mark Le Fanu, general secretary of the Society of Authors, said he was "very pleased that this festering sore has been healed".
He added: "Hachette authors will, I’m sure, be delighted—relieved and delighted. I just hope, and assume, that Hachette has negotiated robustly on their behalf."