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Friday 4th July |
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Blogable Posts
Picador Publishes Free 'Online Shot' To tie-in with the publication of the new batch of Picador Shots, there is a free 'online shot' by Ray Robinson available to all via the Picador website.
A Clear And Not-So-Present Danger The future of Book City
Authors Aren't Just For Christmas Do authors have to do it all themselves?
Buzzword Burnout If anyone asks me again whether I am twittering this conference I cannot be held accountable for my actions
Why I Hate Second-hand Books Second-hand books have never been more popular. But to me the thought of a dog-eared, mucus-smeared paperback is too much to bear
Once W.W. Norton Starts Twittering, Who's Next? Why publihers might want to consider a more aggressive public presence as a way to champion the books they love to readers
The Only Thing Wrong With Book Clubs Is Our Definition There is nothing wrong with Book Clubs and one could say that the best examples of these are thriving today everywhere we look
We Don't Need A Poet Laureate Ask not what poetry can do for the royal family, but what the royal family can do for poetry
We Don't Need A Poet Laureate Ask not what poetry can do for the royal family, but what the royal family can do for poetry
The Great American Pause The novel is the one form to which US culture still allows a lengthy gestation, but for how long?
Why I Love Chick-lit People sneer at these books, but wittily told romantic fiction is as hard to write as it is fun to read
September Song For BookExpo Canada In 2009? An idea that's been tossed around for the past couple of years got another push today, as BookExpo Canada owner Reed Exhibition Companies unveiled a proposal to move the convention and trade show to the fall
The Rise Of The Reading Group As someone who presents books to retailers for a living, I often resort to bleating, as I brandish our latest Next Big Thing: 'It's perfect for reading groups! It's got issues in it!'
The Government Should Do More To Encourage Reading For Pleasure Everyone seems agreed that reading for pleasure is crucial to educational achievement. So why is it left to voluntary organisations to advocate it?
Buying New Books Can Be An Exercise In Absurdity And Futility An antiquated, inefficient system that hardly takes into account the invention of the personal computer and completely ignores the existence of the internet
Digitise Or Die? 'Digitise or Die?' is at best scare mongering and at worst bad copy
A Modest Proposal For Memoirs With the rise of Dave and Boris comes the self-deprecating gentleman's memoir
Bestselling Authors, Or Branding Machines? As successful writers are forced to churn out ever more books per year, the quality of the 'product' is suffering
Age Banding Will Lead To A Two-tier Book Trade As household names exercise clout to remove age ranging from their books, those forced to carry the badge may come to be seen as lesser writers
Do Books Have An Expiry Date? There are certain books that you do just have to read *then* or never. Imagine if you were reading The Da Vinci Code now. You would surely be sat there thinking 'why am I reading this dreadfully written, utterly ridiculous thriller?' Another example is the 'adults reading Harry Potter' phenomenon, which in the future will surely be viewed as the insanity that it was and is.
Where The Web Is Taking Us The Inevitable Future and the Publisher's Role In It
Cashing In On Writers' Lives After the sale of Dickens' desk, will bargain-hunters race to buy up Philip Pullman's shed and JK Rowling's cafe?
Prediction: The Kindle Goes Down In Flames Someone at the OUP seems to think that the Amazon Kindle is selling like hotcakes
Time To Re-think Bookexpo Current BEA show format is an old and increasingly ineffective tool
Written On The Body: Literary Tattoos They're kind of cool, but they're also putting literature in quite the wrong place |
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