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Friday 12th March |
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Opinion
Asian Prize Changes Seem Puzzling, But Perhaps For The Better Seems to be more that can be gained for Asian literature than is lost
Authors Need To Help Themselves but can best do so when they are part of a collaboration of equals
It's Time For Canada To Open Its Doors To Amazon Protectionism does not enrich culture, merely certain businesses
When Did You Last Buy A New Book? Over the last couple of years new book sales, like the sales of many other things, have slumped
Fallen Stars Can't Atone By Writing For Children But a reformed sinner is always a popular figure
So Many Book Conferences, So Little Time How it is that people can take so much time away from their regular job
Is Copyright Getting In The Way Of Us Preserving Our History? The issue of copyright is a global nightmare for anyone interested in digital preservation
Kobo E-book Store Makes Amazon Look Good Reviewing Kobo has left me unimpressed with the newcomer but I've reconsidered my opinion of Amazon
Why The MLA Has Failed So Badly (in Respect Of Public Libraries Over The Past 10 Years Or So)? But when you come to think of it, it isn't just the The Museums, Libraries and Archives Commission . . .
Could The Google Books Case Go To The Supreme Court? At the end of the day, it seems unlikely that no matter what Judge Chin rules, the matter won't be settled
Why Books Are So Important Details of the proposed 'merger' of Leicester's central libraries has so far been very sketchy
Harry Potter And The Great Google Onslaught The bunfight over Google's library project only serves to remind us that intellectual property battles are nothing new
Julian Gough Slams Fellow Irish Novelists As 'Priestly Caste' Cut Off From The Culture 'We've abolished the Catholic clergy, and replaced them with novelists' says writer, describing his peers as 'a pompous, provincial literary community'
iPad iWash Ebooks are not the biggest danger to bookshops. The biggest threat to bookshops is the devaluation of the value of all books
Oxfam Is A Bully Booksellers Association and the bookshops in one particular corner or London are up in arms against Oxfam
Apple's iPad And The Evolution Of Books Today's e-book is the direct descendent of the 1930s paperback
As I Start To Write My Latest Book, I Fear For The Future Of Publishing Retailing pressure and the emergence of the ebook are threatening the future of authors and their work
The Anti-Amis Attitude 'Why the literary world has still got it in for Martin Amis'
Google: We Will Bring Books Back To Life We at Google could make that wealth of knowledge available at a click. And authors would earn too
Amazon V Macmillan: Free Market Fail Two giants in publishing have gone head to head, but as far as readers are concerned it has just ended up as a pathetic tiff
Apple iPad: A Pretty Big Bang The launch of Apple's iPad is the most important event yet in digital publishing
Waterstone's - What's The Real Story? Chain's real problem is that it grew too quickly and long ago outgrew its natural market share
Not The Richard & Judy Effect Is Amanda Ross's TV Book Club the new Richard & Judy? I'd rather watch Loose Women
No, The Apple Tablet Won't Save Publishing Nor Will It End 'Free' We've been seeing an awful lot of chatter in the past couple months over the idea that some sort of "tablet" will somehow "save" the media business
In The End, We'll Pay A High Price For This Free-For-All The enthusiasm of publishing for the e-book is bizarre. Just look what happened in the music world |
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