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Your Guide To Literary Tumblrs
www.themillions.com

More authors needed

Police Sketches Of Literary Characters
thecomposites.tumblr.com

The Composites: Images created using law enforcement composite sketch software and descriptions of literary characters

The Unofficial Guide To The Karachi Literature Festival
tribune.com.pk

With 65 sessions and over 100 writers, the Karachi Literature Festival promises another sell-out year

How War Stories Inspire Children To Learn
www.bbc.co.uk

For many school pupils, the dramatic events of WWI and WWII have not been solely learned through studying dusty history textbooks

All Together Now: Montaigne And The Art Of Co-operation
www.guardian.co.uk

The French essayist can inspire radical new forms of co-operation

A reader-first approach to writing and self-publishing
www.futurebook.net

So how did Kerry Wilkinson sell so many e-books?

Penguin Takes To Twitter For Unique Book Club Experience
thenextweb.com

Penguin thinks that the time-shifted hobby of reading books is a perfect way to bring people together

Exit the Bookninja
arts.nationalpost.com

At its peak, Bookninja's unique brand of comedic literary commentary reached more than 10,000 people a day

Books With Soundtracks: No, Really, This One Works...
blogs.independent.co.uk

The idea is so glaringly obvious, and so obviously feeble

Polyglot Vs. Translator: Different Takes On Multilingualism
publishingperspectives.com

The translator runs a ferry. The polyglot is like Marco Polo

Sales Of Charles Dickens' Books In His Lifetime
www.economist.com

Bleak House edges out Dombey & Son

Smaller Publishing Houses Provide For A Rich, Diverse Literary Landscape
highbrowmagazine.com

It's about getting good books into the hands of readers

Who Would Want To Be An Author In Film?
www.guardian.co.uk

Jason Reitman's Young Adult is only the latest in a long line of films which portray authors as helpless, or vindictive, or both

'Digital Drop Ship' Logistics and Commerce
bookseller-association.blogspot.com

Power in the ebook supply chain is shifting firmly into the centre - to the aggregators

10 Excellent Bookstore Cats
www.mentalfloss.com

Not all bookstores have cats

Discerning Ebook Rights In Ancient Publishing Contracts
www.thepassivevoice.com

The question of e-books in pre-e-book contracts

8 Laws Named For Writers
blogs.publishersweekly.com

If you want the universe to work in your favor, it's best to keep the following Writer Laws in mind

Would You Like To Be A Book Prize Judge?
www.guardian.co.uk

The Royal Society is on the look out for some science-savvy youth groups to join them in judging the 2012 Young people's book prize

Bring A Friend To The Bookstore
blogs.publishersweekly.com

An idea so simple, it's shocking

Designers On Book Covers Of The Future
publishingperspectives.com

E-books, and the endless uniformity of their reflowable text, are some of the most egregious offenders of bad aesthetics

Nine Truths About E-book Publishing
www.futurebook.net

An e-book is not just an extra, tacked onto the production of the printed book

Analyzing Writers' Personalities From Their Handwritten Manuscripts
flavorwire.com

We checked out a 5-minute online handwriting analysis test to see if we could dig up anything on our favorite writers

The Underground Literary Alliance: Prescient Revolutionaries Or Scary Stalkers?
www.believermag.com

There is one literary movement today that seeks to save the publishing industry by smashing it into a million genteel smithereens

Playing International Rugby Is Easier Than Selling Print
www.printweek.com

England's Phil Dowson juggles challenges of print and international rugby

How To Be An Indie Bookseller's Dream
blogs.wsj.com

Follow these simple rules


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Cairo International Book Fair Awards
english.ahram.org.eg

General Egyptian Book Organisation wins majority of Cairo International Book Fair awards

Eason Plans 150 Job Cuts To Achieve €5m Saving
www.irishtimes.com

Eason has reached agreement with staff on a cost reduction programme that will involve about 150 voluntary redundancies

Working at a Big-Six (US) Publishing House
www.digitalbookworld.com

Culture, Pay, Advancement and Getting In

Hay-on-Wye gears up for an uncivil war
www.telegraph.co.uk

Plans for a supermarket are dividing residents – and splitting families – in the idyllic literary town

Ben Okri 'disappointment' at editor who claims re-wrote his work
www.telegraph.co.uk

Ben Okri, the Booker Prize winning author, has accused his editor of "exaggerating his own importance" after he claimed to have rewritten some of the writer's work

In Amanda Knox Tale, A Delicate Bet For Publishers
www.nytimes.com

Her personal charm aside, however, Ms. Knox's story is complex, disturbing and still hotly debated

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