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Wednesday 14th May |
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Blogable Posts
The Prize Winners Are . . . Unavailable In Translation It's no surprise that a lot of foreign writers don't get published in English
What's In A Publisher's Name? Now I see the company I work for in a totally new, rather exciting light. But what's in a name, you say? Well, give me Picador – glamorous, dashing, continental – any day over Hamish Hamilton (some dour Scottish bloke?), Faber & Faber (yep, really imaginative) or Abacuszzzzzzzzzzz.
A Book Publisher's Manifesto For The 21st Century How traditional publishers need to position themselves in the changing media flows of a networked era
How To Outsource The Slush Pile HarperCollins is launching a website where aspiring writers can upload their work. Shortcut to a publishing deal or a blind alley?
An Unequal Contest The Best of the Booker pits apples against oranges, Farrell against Rushdie - but the shortlist contains some welcome surprises
If You Don't Succeed As A Writer, Be Glad Struggling writers dream of fame and fortune - but is the price too high?
'Open' Or 'Closed' Depends On Where You Stand The noise about open formats
Re-reading Books What do we all think about the re-reading of books? I used to do a lot of it 10-15 years ago and now I do none
Are Publishers' Increasingly Massive Subtitles Written For Amazon? The long subtitle can be a sign of compromise
Bookmarks Galore Sometimes it isn't a page-turner that you need, but something simply to keep your place
Portrait Of Boris As An Artist Johnson's books don't give too many clues as to how he'll govern, apart from showing he's capable of serious lapses of judgment
iRex To Launch New Ebook Reader Special edition aimed at the book market
Where Are All The Bicycle Novels? We need contemporary equivalents of HG Wells's The Wheel of Chance and Somerset Maugham's Cakes and Ale to do justice to this two-wheeled beauty
Hype And Hoping eBooks are everywhere
Murdoch's Chinese Whispers There's no conspiracy behind the lack of newsprint covering Rupert's Adventures in China. It's just a question of time, and place
Things Fall Apart Is the post-9/11 imagination disintegrating?
The Great Penniless Author Swindle Very unambitious fraudsters are claiming to be writers as part of a confidence scam
Don't Mess With Michiko Kakutani Jonathan Franzen claims she's the stupidest person in New York. But she sure knows how to stick the knife in
Some News, At Last Things appear to be reaching a conclusion with regards The Friday Project and Harper Collins
Why Is Old So Fashionable In Brit Lit? America has a huge appetite for the new and exciting. We're much keener to find out about Ian McEwan's latest
Download Free Star Wars E-book Can't wait till the next big dose of Star Wars, the CGI-laden Clone Wars? Need your Skywalker fix, and now?
Widen Your Reading Horizons A new website celebrates the privileged few foreign language writers who get translated into English
Whatever Happened To Book Borrowers? People seem to have forgotten how to take things out from the library and return them
Hoax Diary Snares Bloomsbury A respected biographer and her publisher have been hoodwinked into using fake references. A source of embarrassment indeed
Don't Blame Harry Potter For Writers' Low Profile Some authors may be getting sadly neglected by their publishers, but it's not JK Rowling's fault |
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