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Books are Going Country as 'Farm Lit' Hits Big
publishingperspectives.com

So Long City

Word For Word: Telling Stories Beyond The Printed Page
www.irishtimes.com

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
www.bbc.co.uk

What do ex-convicts' books reveal about life inside?

Navigating Narrative With Gimbal
www.theliteraryplatform.com

An audio fiction app that allows busy commuters to 'read the city' as they travel

Book Design Is Suddenly A Spectator Sport
www.mhpbooks.com

The Bell Jar strikes back

10 Biggest Book Adaptation Flops
blogs.publishersweekly.com

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
www.digitalbookworld.com

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
www.bookbrunch.co.uk

Tips for digital start-ups

Where Are The Women In Translation?
wordswithoutborders.org

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?
www.guardian.co.uk

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
turnaround-uk.blogspot.co.uk

The flutterings of first love, flying the parental nest and the whizzing of hormones

Canongate Celebrates 40 Years
www.bookbrunch.co.uk

Jamie Byng: I got Stephanie's attention with chocolate

Book Publicity: What's Changed And What Hasn't
www.digitalbookworld.com

More than ever, it may now be online marketing that makes the PR difference

Japan's Bid To Challenge Amazon (Video)
www.bbc.co.uk

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
www.guardian.co.uk

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
www.telegraph.co.uk

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
www.telegraph.co.uk

The 'Chimpanzee' director shares his top picks of the UK's independent bookshops

Putting The Brand Before The Book Produces Profits
publishingperspectives.com

'Publishers seem to love it if you do their work for them!'

Chick-lit Will Survive - But Don't Count All Female Authors In
www.telegraph.co.uk

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
www.fastcompany.com

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
www.guardian.co.uk

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
www.independent.co.uk

Notebook will be auctioned next month at Christie's

How Do You Like Your Classic Lit: In A Ball Gown Or Lingerie?
publishingperspectives.com

Classics continue to sell briskly

Internet Copyright Laws? They Can Walk The Plank
www.independent.co.uk

There's not a lot of yo-ho-ho about Amelia Andersdotter

Melanie Phillips: She's Putting The World To Rights
www.guardian.co.uk

Will readers, including her fans in the US, buy into her vision?


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Nobel Prize in Literature Candidates 'Chosen'
www.mediabistro.com

Five writers have already been selected as candidates for the 2013 Nobel Prize, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy revealed via a Twitter dispatch

New York Times Bestseller Ebook List Shifts To Online Only
goodereader.com

Suspending the inclusion of ebook titles in the newspaper and only posting them on the website

Book Auction To Shine Light On The Secrets Of Quidditch
www.guardian.co.uk

Charity auction of annotated first edition novels gives unprecedented insight into the genesis of classic titles

Indie Booksellers Call For Action On Amazon's Tax Avoidance
www.guardian.co.uk

Independent retailers angry at lack of government intervention on web retailer's tax payments

Dutch Ebook Market Up 45% In Q1
www.digitalbookworld.com

Digital books nearly 4% of the Netherlands book market share in units so far for 2013

First Publishing Hackathon to be held in NYC and judged at BEA
www.mhpbooks.com

Book publishing is the industry that needs a hackathon most.

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