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Blogable Posts
Harrogate: Liver Poached In Wine, But No Fava Beans Mark Billingham reflects on the eighth Harrogate Crime-Writing Festival
How Not To Pitch A Crime Novel A major crime-writing festival, a roomful of industry names to impress, and two minutes to do it in. Gulp
2010: A Publishing Odyssey Did publishing power just shift a little in favour of authors?
Pope Needs To 'Fess Up To Holy Ghost Writer' Pope Benedict XVI has published his first children's book!
How Will Ebookstores Earn Your Loyalty? With all these ebook retailers just a click away from each other, what must they do to earn your business on a repeat basis?
The Screw You Ebook Deal Every week it seems something new is happening in eBookland to set the ebook cause back a decade or two
Doctor Now? Can James Bond Modernise? He won't give plot clues, but Jeffery Deaver will give his 007 novel a contemporary setting
This Book Not For Sale Welcome to Wylie World!
Jane Streeter On Independent Bookselling Tireless quest to offer an alternative to bland commercial retailers and support local writers
Are 'Second-hand E-books' Possible? It might simply be best to accept that there will always be some things paper books can do that e-books cannot, and adjust the pricing on e-books to compensate
It Isn't Wise To Draw Lines In The Sand That Ultimately Can't Be Defended It is not like the publishers haven't seen the ebook royalty fight coming
Will Random House Chicken Out Again? The smart money is on The Jackal
Imraan Coovadia And Albie Sachs Win The South African Sunday Times Literary Awards Coovadia won the R75 000 Fiction Prize for his novel High Low In-between and Sachs the equally lucrative Alan Paton Award for non-fiction, for his memoir, The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law
The Internet As Competition To New Non-fiction Books There is lots of talk about how curation is a key tool for publishers in the modern era
#bookstorebingo Who Wrote Hamlet, Again?
Why Is It So Hard To Browse In Online Book Shops? In order for ebook publishing to live up to its potential of bringing new readers to new books, we need to replicate (simulate?) the physical act of book-store browsing in these online spaces
Mohamed Choukri's Legacy Yet another reminder to authors: put your literary estate in order before you keel over
Wylie's Amazon Deal Brings The End Of The Publishing World Nigh Is it curtains for conventional publishing?
Ebury At Latitude Festival In previous years we had taken a number of Ebury authors to the Latitude festival, where their talks, signings and events had always been a huge success
Hachette Book Group Attacked By Bedbugs First they hit the fashion conscious and the voluptuous, now they're after the pedantic
How To Get Published No Agent? Other Paths to Publication
Best (US) Publisher Pages On Facebook Keyword 'publishing' turns up 17,000 Facebook pages
Ebooks: Time Will Tell The dream is that eBook readers will become a consumer fashion-item like mobile phones
Smoke's Future Hangs In The Air London magazine Smoke is pausing for 'a rethink' after bookshop closures undermined its distribution. A sign of the times?
Woody Allen: 'No Substitute for Reading & There Never Will Be' Immortalized by Not Dying: Woody Allen Goes Digital |
