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Sunday 14th March |
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Opinion
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
There's More To Publishing Than Meets The Screen Are e-books a new frontier in publishing Or are they simply the latest editions of the books produced by publishers
Bookshops Face Bonfire Long queues at the checkout in a Borders store in Manhattan last weekend, but instead of being a good sign for the ailing bookseller, I watched a business model crumbling in front of my eyes
Amazon Is Losing Its Shirt Many underestimate the losses companies like Amazon will need to weather before selling e-books becomes a meaningfully profitable business
Should E-books Be Protected? The issues involved with copy protection haven't changed. They're the same on e-books as they are with everything else
Hey Publishers, Screwing Your Best Customers Is A Mistake In 2009, the customer is king. Unfortunately for the literary world, a few publishers have decided to treat their best customers like crap
Bring Back Rejection Letters Faced with a deluge of emails, many people are tempted to hit the delete button instead of replying. But it's unethical and rude
Britain's High Culture Is Little Different From The X Factor Great writers used to pit themselves against the world
Memo To Book Industry: Here's A Better Way To 'Window' Your E-books Dear book industry, I'm so sorry to tell you this, but your books really aren't worth $25
Wanted - Time To Think Amid the cacophony of 21st century life, we need to find time, space and silence
Support A Local Bookshop This Christmas The bookshop, like the library, is the great democratic space |
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