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Tuesday 9th February |
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Opinion
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
An Open Letter To Waterstone's Management Waterstone's is a great company with tremendous potential . . . Here is what I would do
Editors Should Get Real Everything that gets written about in books comes from out there, beyond books, in the real world
Why We Need Celebrity Autobiographies If we can't hear the voices of celebrities such as Kerry Katona, we will hate them – because we won't understand them
The Widening Gap Between Price-slashing And Service The collapse of Borders and Waterstone's difficulties reveal opportunities for independents, but high street bookselling remains precarious
Give Waterstone's a chance Waterstone's isn't ideal — but it's all we've got
Philip Hensher: Google's Book 'Deal' Has Left Me Confused I don't like the prospect of someone in another country proposing to fiddle with my ownership of my own books
Celebrity Biography Dead? I Don't Think So. One of Jordan's biographers defends the public's right to know all in this celebrity-obsessed age
The New Age In Agenting Competitors and Collaborators
How Many Ereaders Does It Take To Screw In An Ebook? The number of new tools for electronic reading may soon reach a killion - a number so high it can kill you
Waterstone's Returns To Its Roots Well, well, well. Book chain Waterstone's this morning fired its boss following dire Christmas sales figures and announced that it is going back to its roots as a "local" bookshop
In Praise Of . . . The Que Reader Simple to use, easy to read and light as a feather, the Que's e-ink screen looks and works like touch-sensitive paper – and feels more powerful than competitors like Amazon's Kindle
Who'd Be An Editor? The people who tend to the words are the most endangered contributors to the publishing process
Amazon Must Kill The Kindle For the good of itself, its investors, and everyone else, Amazon should kill off its Kindle
Copyright Is A Tool Not An Ideology Global rights are now the norm in markets that have become truly global themselves
The End Of The Line For Celebs? Having counted them out, publishers will spend the next few weeks counting their books back in, many of them celebrity biographies |
