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Friday 3rd July |
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Opinion
Obscene Stories Or Free Speech? Civil servant Darryn Walker has been cleared of breaching the Obscene Publications Act with a story he wrote about Girls Aloud
Readers Pay A Price For Authors' Greed Campaign by wealthy Australian authors against reforms that would enable Australians to buy cheaper books is all about feathering their nests
New Technologies Could Bring An End To Books or save them
The Perils Of Five-star Reviews How much can you trust the customer reviews you read online?
J.D. Salinger Strikes Back The author's legal action to stop a book about Holden Caulfield seems a little too extreme
Say Yes To 'Google Books' Roy Blount, the president of the US Authors Guild, argued that criticism was unwarranted
Genre Fiction Vs. Literary Fiction Are the lines beginning to blur?
Why Size Matters It would be to everyone's advantage if publishers applied themselves to the needs of those who are sight-impaired
Booksellers Get Down To Business WH Smiths' deal to stock only Penguin guidebooks at its travel shops is justified in an era of piling high and selling cheap
Path To The Future Publishers: stand up and defend the Google settlement
Why Governor Schwarzenegger Is Right To Ban Books A budget-cutting move promises an end to textbooks in California's classrooms. How wise
Publisher Defends Google Books 'Sell Out' Fox raising chickens is good for chickenhood, says exec
It's Way Too Soon For Arnold Schwarzenegger To Say Hasta La Vista To Books Ceri Radford says that Arnold Schwarzenegger is doing pupils a disservice with his plan to abolish real books
Sorry, But Books Are There In My DNA Kindle e-books may be terrific but the printed word will never die
Creative Britain Must Be Kept In Good Health The departing Culture Secretary Andy Burnham says we cannot afford to waste the creative talent of a new generation
Meet The Readers? No Thanks There is now an inexhaustible public appetite for meeting writers, in tents and church halls
Why Write Books? It didn't feel like a dying industry...
Britain Chills Free Speech Libel tourists flock to the U.K. to avoid public scrutiny
Why Do My Son's Books Tell Him All Men Are Useless? When fathers do appear they are often withdrawn, or obsessed with themselves, or just utterly ineffectual
Oh For Those Days Of Catfights And Sequinned G-strings They don't make bonkbusters like they used to, writes Rowan Pelling
Please Count Me Out Of The Ross Book Club A surreal car-crash of ideas, formats and platforms
We Must Make E-books Pirate-proof Publishers must learn from the mistakes of the music industry and protect e-book copyrighted content from thieves
Why Le Carré Beats Fleming Hands Down Eight John le Carré novels are currently being dramatised on BBC Radio 4, bringing to life his thoroughly British and comical anti-hero George Smiley
How Intolerable Life Would Be Without Books And Bookshops Now the literary festival season is in full swing, we should recognise that the real worth of dusty tomes is sensual, not financial
Where Are All The Nice, Normal Dads In Children's Books? Fathers in children's books are rarely positive figures. But as dads do more childcare, it's time publishers took note |
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