Each Monday, here on Editor's Corner, I run through the latest issue of the Bookseller magazine and pick out the bits and pieces of book industry news that catch my eye.

This quick round-up of book stuff is culled from the pages of last Friday's 19th June issue:

• booksellers and publishers "are banking on a 'showbizzy' autumn to defy the economic downturn, with a slew of celebrity-led books lining up for pre-Christmas release"
• October 1st "is being hailed as 2009's 'Super Thursday', with a slew of big autumn releases hitting stores on what, 'Dan Brown day' aside, will be the biggest date in the bookselling calendar of the year"
• Waterstone's "has stopped taking prepayments for customer orders in stores supplied by its new distribution 'hub'. Staff were told to stop taking any payments from 11th June because delivery dates on the books could not be guaranteed"
• travel writers and publishers "are continuing to keep up the pressure on W H Smith Travel and Penguin after they signed an exclusive deal" (whereby Smith's travel shops "would sell only Penguin-published foreign travel guides")
• the "'options are open' on a follow-up to the James Bond hit Devil May Care... though Sebastian Faulks has confirmed that he will not author a second Bond title"
• Amazon c.e.o. Jeff Bezos "has criticised the Google Settlement, saying that the proposed deal 'needs to be revisited'"
• Scholastic and The Book People (TBP) "are to close the joint venture they have been operating since 2002"
• authors contracts "need updating to reflect the fact that writers are taking an increasingly active role in promoting their books, Philippa Milnes-Smith, president of the Association of Authors Agents, has said"
• the Publishers Association "has warned that the government's proposals for combating illegal filesharing fall short of what the publishing industry urgently needs"
• Bloomsbury Publishing "has said that it will 'vigorously' defend the claim of plagiarism made against the publisher by the estate of deceased author Adrian Jacobs, stating that the allegation that Harry Potter author J K Rowling copied from Jacobs' earlier work was 'unfounded, unsubstantiated and untrue'"