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Sunday 19th May |
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Feature Items
Books are Going Country as 'Farm Lit' Hits Big So Long City
Word For Word: Telling Stories Beyond The Printed Page As digital change sweeps through the industry, publishers are beginning to think about their lists in ways that stray beyond the printed page
Prison Lit What do ex-convicts' books reveal about life inside?
Navigating Narrative With Gimbal An audio fiction app that allows busy commuters to 'read the city' as they travel
Book Design Is Suddenly A Spectator Sport The Bell Jar strikes back
10 Biggest Book Adaptation Flops For this list, we didn't just want book adaptations that were a critical/audience failure or a box office failure–we wanted both
Digital Book Signings Help Grow Authors' Careers Book signings are an age-old tradition, but is it really necessary to extend this custom to ebooks?
Top Five Reasons Why Your Ebook Strategy Is Failing Tips for digital start-ups
Where Are The Women In Translation? Far more male novelists make their way into English than female ones
From Suffolk book plant to British readers but will novel generate UK tax? Journey of new novel shows how book printed and published in Britain – and bought on Amazon – is taxed in Luxembourg
Late-teenage Kicks: The Rise Of The New Adult Novel The flutterings of first love, flying the parental nest and the whizzing of hormones
Canongate Celebrates 40 Years Jamie Byng: I got Stephanie's attention with chocolate
Book Publicity: What's Changed And What Hasn't More than ever, it may now be online marketing that makes the PR difference
Japan's Bid To Challenge Amazon (Video) Japanese e-commerce company Rakuten is looking to grow its business globally in a bid to challenge US rival Amazon
Meet The Man Booker International Prize Finalists Man Booker's biennial selection of the best in international literature will be awarded next week
Move Over Celebrities: Real Chefs Are The Stars Now The founders of London café Honey and Co are the latest working chefs to be courted by the food publishing world
Alastair Fothergill On The Best Independent Bookshops The 'Chimpanzee' director shares his top picks of the UK's independent bookshops
Putting The Brand Before The Book Produces Profits 'Publishers seem to love it if you do their work for them!'
Chick-lit Will Survive - But Don't Count All Female Authors In The idea that a female author has to be marketed as 'chick lit' is causing a growing number of novelists to explore self-publishing or independent publishers
Call It 'Artisanal', and 5 Other Ways To Crush Self-Publishing So why should authors who lovingly craft their own books be stigmatized or feel less-than because their books aren't printed by giant publishers?
How Dan Brown And Other Authors Defeat Writer's Block The Da Vinci Code novelist hangs upside-down to get the creative juices flowing, while others rely on noise-cancelling headphones, sleeping bags and vitamins
'Lost' WH Auden Journal Sheds Light On Pivotal Time For Poet Notebook will be auctioned next month at Christie's
How Do You Like Your Classic Lit: In A Ball Gown Or Lingerie? Classics continue to sell briskly
Internet Copyright Laws? They Can Walk The Plank There's not a lot of yo-ho-ho about Amelia Andersdotter
Melanie Phillips: She's Putting The World To Rights Will readers, including her fans in the US, buy into her vision? |