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Jeanette Winterson: I Wanted To Use Myself As Fiction And Fact
entertainment.timesonline.co.uk

Twenty-five years after publishing Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, the author looks back at her startling debut

Barnes & Noble: A Besieged Giant
www.latimes.com

The world's largest bookseller faces an unwelcome stock fight while trying to deal with radical market shifts

Irish Independents Wrestle With Doomsday Book Scenario
www.irishtimes.com

It's certainly not looking good for Irish bookshops

News Corp Executive: Paywalls And Free Model Can Co-exist
www.guardian.co.uk

Jonathan Miller argues dual revenue streams – whether through subscription or other methods – can work alongside each other

The Long-list For This Year's Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Spans The Globe
www.independent.co.uk

Reading all over the world

What's The Difference Between An Ebook And An App?
digitalbookworld.com

Application stores are the new walled gardens

In Europe, Book-scanning Efforts Feel Their Way Into New Territory
online.wsj.com

Book digitizing is moving ahead in different places in Europe under several experimental programs

Publishers Look Beyond The Book
www.dailyfinance.com

FarmVille, ChatRoulette, Video Games

Web Standards For E-books
www.alistapart.com

HTML isn't just for the web - It's for any text distributed online

Algebra In Wonderland
www.nytimes.com

Lewis Carroll most likely had real models for the strange happenings in Wonderland

iPad Challenges Traditional Publishing Economics
www.pcworld.com

Print media appears to be making the same mistake that other traditional entertainment media have made in transitioning to a digital delivery system

China's Literary Feast
publishingperspectives.com

There's plenty of literary activity going on in China this week

Music Stars 'Still Need Labels'
news.bbc.co.uk

Record labels have put the case for why they are still essential in the digital age

Bookish Guide To SXSW
publishingperspectives.com

Download a Twitter app to your phone, put on your coolest t-shirt, and brush up on some social media vocab

Could Google (Eventually) Put Translators Out Of Business?
publishingperspectives.com

Like Kasparov playing a computer at chess, how long will the humans have the advantage?

Andreessen's Advice To Old Media: 'Burn The Boats'
techcrunch.com

The simple fact is that the open Web is where the users are

Publishing: Taking The Power Back
www.huffingtonpost.com

Why should I allow my literary fate to be determined by what seemed an increasingly dysfunctional system?

How To Design A Book Cover
www.mediabistro.com

6 Hours of Work in 2 Minute Video

E-book Giveaways Correlate To Higher Print Sales
www.wired.com

Giving away an e-book seems to lead to at least a spike in sales of the print version

Pondering Good Faith In Publishing
www.nytimes.com

When publishers are not looking, the truth has a way of being left at the door

Book Tour? More Like A Safari
www.latimes.com

With publisher publicity departments backing away from traditional author tours, writers are left to their own devices (and strangers' couches)

The Best And Worst Of Times For Publishing
www.guardian.co.uk

Even in its supposedly golden ages, the book trade has been sustained by shifting large quantities of junk, and so it remains

Embed A Book Anywhere With Monocle
www.shinyshiny.tv

The browser-based eBook

Is Penguin Trying To Rewrite History?
publishingperspectives.com

Or just part of the ongoing battle for market share among the major publishers

John Edgar Wideman To Self-publish New Book Via Lulu.com
www.publishersweekly.com

Acclaimed novelist experiments with self-publishing


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Gordon Brown Misses His Rosebud Moment As Publisher Shelves Study
www.guardian.co.uk

Suzie Mackenzie shadowed PM for most of his period in No 10 but believed her book should also cover election

Watkins Books Saved By Last-Minute Purchase
www.booktrade.info

American entrepreneur, Etan Ilfeld is purchasing the business in its entirety for an undisclosed sum

Commonwealth Writers' Prize Regional Winners' Shortlist Announced
www.commonwealthfoundation.com

The shortlist for regional winners has been unveiled in the race to win the influential 2010 Commonwealth Writers' Prize

New Zealand Book Trade Liaison Committee Formed
www.voxy.co.nz

New book industry action group formed to co-ordinate book promotions and represent the trade on common issues

First Capital Connect Launches Book Club
www.independent.co.uk

First Capital Connect launched a book club and gave away 17,000 samples of its first Book of the Month

Top Author Argues Against Academy
www.heraldscotland.com

One of Scotland's leading authors last night said she was not in favour of the plan to set up a special academy to honour the nation's finest writers

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