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It's Good To Be Back
www.danutakean.com

This flat earth journalism helped create a sense that digital distribution of books had finally tipped over

Are Magazines Just Dead Wood?
www.telegraph.co.uk

The ease of digital publishing has led many to predict the imminent demise of the printed magazine. But Thomas Marks finds that a host of beautifully produced small magazines are bucking the trend

Barcelona's Blackie Books: Pretty Books For The Apocalypse
publishingperspectives.com

A surprisingly successful independent publisher of cult fiction, poetry, and illustration

A Brief History Of Blurbs
www.themillions.com

The excesses and scandals of contemporary blurbing, book and otherwise, are well-documented

Australian Book Industry 2011
www.booksellers.co.nz

Surviving REDgroup crisis and not doing badly, thanks

A Lifetime Of Books, And I Can't Give Them Away
www.telegraph.co.uk

Is no one interested in taking my 20,000-book library off my hands?

Selling Books By Their Gilded Covers
www.nytimes.com

Publishers are giving old-fashioned print books a makeover.

Writers Bid To Revive Letter-writing
www.guardian.co.uk

Famous names including Dave Eggers are offering to write letters to subscribers on a weekly basis

Time for publishers to get (even more) social
www.futurebook.net

Establishing your company's brand and those of your authors on Google+ just rocketed to the top of your 'To Do' list

I am not Cormac McCarthy
www.theatlanticwire.com

An Unpublished Novelist's Week as Fake Cormac McCarthy

Lost In Transition
bookseller-association.blogspot.com

ISBN, ISSN, BIC and BISC codes and jacket images: do they still matter as much in the digital and direct marketing era?

How Kobo Plans To Launch In 12 New Countries A Year
www.digitalbookworld.com

The key is local operators who understand local markets

A Self-help Rights Guide For Independent Publishers
publishingperspectives.com

Book explains how success is possible "based on an independent model."

Combining The Television And Publishing Mindset
publishingperspectives.com

"The cost structure for us to get into this is different than for a publisher...it's all sunk costs."

The Fantastic Flying Books Of Mr. Morris Lessmore
vimeo.com

The Oscar-Nominated Short About Flying Books

The Big Reasons Indie Authors Aren't Taken Seriously
www.huffingtonpost.com

By all indications, you'd expect that readers and traditional media alike would be wrapping their arms collectively around indie authors and their books

Perhaps The Greatest Comics Book Store In The World
publishingperspectives.com

BD Spirit in Paris is not your ordinary bookshop

Adam Croft: How To Sell Over 130,000 Self-published E-books
www.teleread.com

Without any marketing budget or the services of a publisher

Self-publishing Author Will Entrekin Discusses Kindle Lending Royalties
www.teleread.com

Further on Kindle Select and the Amazon Lending Library

Will Our Children Read E-books?
ereads.com

The latest statistics tell us more kids are reading e-books

Nerd Porn: Design Nerds Discuss The Form Of The Book
vol1brooklyn.com

The dim fate of the printed book en masse does not mean that the designer is endangered

Judge A Book By Its Cover?
www.varsity.co.uk

Book cover illustrators are the under-sung creators

New Chapter For Indian Publishing
www.thenational.ae

A tiny sector a decade ago, today the Indian publishing industry is basking in the warm glow of the self-help craze

More on DRM
www.futurebook.net

More on Anobii CEO's anti-DRM arguments

Erotic Books Popular With E-readers
www.cbc.ca

Sales have soared for erotic literature with the advent of e-readers


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Blue Peter Seeks Best Children's Book Of Last Decade
www.bbc.co.uk

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and Theodore Boone are among the books vying for the title

Random House Will Raise Library E-book Prices, But Commits To E-book Lending
www.publishersweekly.com

Random House officials said the "terms of sale" for Random House e-books to libraries will change

Tulisa Signs Three-book Deal For Tell-all Memoir
www.glamourmagazine.co.uk

Fierce bidding war, apparently

BEA Adds Children's Day
www.publishersweekly.com

Reed Exhibitions and the American Booksellers Association have made a number of tweaks

Children Lap Up Storytelling Session At New Selfridges Library
www.thisislondon.co.uk

Schooldchildren from across London are being invited to Selfridges - not to shop, but for reading lessons with a difference

Waterstones Ends Unpaid Work Placements After Investigation
www.guardian.co.uk

Waterstones stops using unpaid jobseekers, as government rejects claim scheme is contrary to Human Rights Act

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