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Thursday 2nd September |
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Opinion
Our Industry Is Populated By Nincompoops 'Strong' words as senior UK publisher comments on ebook price wars
Terence Blacker: Hands Off Our Public Libraries In the days of Margaret Thatcher there was once a very silly government minister who floated the idea that Britain's public libraries should be privatised
E-publishing Consultant Mike Shatzkin Doesn't Understand Books The printed book I buy today will be as readable in 100 years from now as it is today
Reconsider Blair Book-signing We urge Waterstone's to reconsider its decision to host Tony Blair book-signing
Rise Of Social, Demise Of Literary Reading I am part of a diminishing of people who like to hold, thumb, page, and read books
Publishers To Sell Experiences And Not Products Transmedia will help to move the publishing industry from a product industry to an experience industry. The revenue streams that are available around an experience are vastly larger than they are in just selling a product.
E-books From An Author's Point Of View So as a midlist author, what does all this mean to me?
The Worst Negative Book Review Clichés negative coverage of books can be just as generic as positive coverage
Why Kindle-Killers Haven't Killed Kindle R. I. P. "Kindle-killer."
Summer Reading Just Got Smarter Discerning critics used to sneer at holiday bestsellers. But this year's Big Beach Reads are also works of literary merit, argues Boyd Tonkin. So is popular fiction wising up at last?
Bookseller Of Kabul Author Can't Plead Cultural Immunity Åsne Seierstad's crass violation of Afghan values makes a mockery of her claims of insight into their society
What's Gone Wrong With The Modern Novel? Two Telegraph bloggers, Harry Mount and Michael Deacon, ask why - if HBO can find brilliant writers - today's novels are such junk
Can Amazon Turn Ebooks Mainstream? Anyone unlucky enough to commute will know that dead tree media still rule the roost
Will The Book Survive? Books of all sorts are here to stay and we should embrace the change—and keep on reading
A Bookish Mix There is a definite art to filling bookshelves
Pink Book Covers Make Me See Red Why can't publishers serve fiction for girls without a simpering array of pearly grins and pony-tails? Enough candy-coating
Parasites On The Back Of Real Books There is a clear conflict of interests between representing an author's case and selling their books
We Still Need Libraries In The Digital Age Public libraries have a vital role bridging the digital divide and teaching people how to get reliable information from the internet
World Ruled By Women Would Be A Better Place, Says Martin Amis Martin Amis has declared himself a feminist and claimed that the world would be a better place if every country was ruled by a woman like Angela Merkel
Move Over Gutenberg: Will E-books Spell The End Of Paper And Ink? When Gutenberg invented movable type, a Venetian judge whined that "The pen is a virgin, the printing press a whore."
Indian Publishing Needs To Get Less Fun Why is it that mediocrity becomes a goal in the attempt to bridge a non-existent divide between 'literary' and 'commercial' fiction?
Our Glorious Libraries Civilise Us All Just standing in the library made me remember how no other literary experience makes you feel so acutely you are part of a vast community of book-lovers
Fiction Has Become Culturally Irrelevant The practice is no longer a vocation. It has become a profession, and professions are not characterized by creative mischief.
Ifilch's Sneak Peek At Floppatronic's Reader The pages make a satisfying pffftt with each activation, simulating the sound made by the iPad
Surely It Is Time That Universities Started Charging Publishers For Staff Time University cuts seem inevitable, but I see no sign of creative thinking by vice-chancellors |
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