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Opinion
Word Of Mouth Or Word Of Pen...Has The Internet Killed The Book Review? Twenty years ago the power of the book review was the difference between a best-seller and a place in the obscurity bin with a sale sticker slapped across the front
The Most Potent Weapon Wielded By The Empires Of Murdoch And China A riveting account of two of the world's most powerful forces has been ignored - blame anticipatory compliance
The Wolf In The Fable The line between memoir and novel has always been blurred
The London Book Fair 2008...Talkin' Bout An Evolution If there was a buzz sweeping through the London Book Fair (LBF) it was the quiet gentle hum of indifference, says Darren Laws
JK Rowling Finds Breaking With Harry Potter Is Hard To Do A Judy Finnigan-style cleavage catastrophe must be high on the list of every woman's sartorial nightmares, but, if it had to happen to anyone, then I'm glad it was to J K Rowling
Crystal Balls Or No Balls At All...the Future Of Publishing? If smaller publishers had the same income to invest in new technology or the resources to embrace podcasts, vodcasts, email marketing and full-on public relations activities as the giants, the book industry would be a different game altogether
Want Your Child To Read? Get The Books Right So the majority of young people aged between 11 and 14 claim they would rather read magazines than a good novel. Oh, surprise me
False Memoir Syndrome Trauma hucksters' lies must be exposed, but autobiographers deserve some creative licence
Why Keeping It In The Family Is Not Working For Bertelsmann Not having a share price to defend is one of life's luxuries
The Times They Are A-Changin And The Publishing Industry Better Be A-Listening In 1963 Bob Dylan wrote 'The times they are a-changin'. The lyrics in the second verse are the most poignant today for writers and the publishing industry in general
Orange Prize: Let's Have A Rival The answer to the women-only Orange Prize is a men-only version too
The Orange Prize Is A Sexist Con-trick Here is a selection of groups that have been consistently under-represented among the winners of the UK's two major book prizes, the Booker and the Costa/Whitbread: the white working class (0); West Indians (1); black Africans (0); disabled writers (0)
Electronic Readers Will Not Cook Book's Goose It is faintly reassuring that, in an era when people fear the ever-increasing power of the internet, the good, old-fashioned cookery book offers proof that there is a lot of life left in print.
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