Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement the major news for the week. Whether data or industry commentary, we hope these 5 links will be a simple way to keep you in the know. Why do some people find ebooks so unsatisfying? Which supply chain issues are behind the looming publishing slowdown?…Continue Reading
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Tagged anti-racism, Bibles, Booker Prize, Booker shortlist, Christian nationalism, Christian publishing, coronavirus, COVID-19, ebooks, pandemic, print books, race, racism, slowdown, supply chain, supply chain issues
Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement the major news for the week. Whether data or industry commentary, we hope these 5 links will be a simple way to keep you in the know. Is piracy a necessary evil? What will the Booker Prize become without the Man Group? How are comp titles homogenizing…Continue Reading
Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement the major news for the week. Whether data or industry commentary, we hope these 5 links will be a simple way to keep you in the know. What are the most common traits of Booker Prize winning novels? Can one study show how many kinds of stories…Continue Reading
In a world where “content and form can be easily separated, writers…are nothing short of desperate to understand the change that technology has forced upon traditional publishing,” writes Jason Allen Ashlock, President of Movable Type Management, in a recent Digital Book World post. In the interest of authors being better informed, some publishers are getting…Continue Reading
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Tagged Alan Mahar, Allen & Unwin, Amber Withycombe, AWP, Black Swan, Booker Prize, branding, Center for Fiction, Coutts, creative writing, Crime Fiction Academy, Digital Book World, Doubleday, F+W Media, Faber Academy, Faber and Faber, Gaynor Arnold, Helen Cross, Ian Ellard, Jason Allen Ashlock, Jeanette Winterson, Jim Crace, Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Child, masterclasses, Moleskine, Movable Type Management, Rachel Joyce, Random House UK, Reed College, Shakespeare and Co., Simone Baird, SJ Watson, The Guardian, Tin House, Tindal Street Press, University of East Anglia, Val McDermid
Black-tie shebangs are thick on the calendar this time of year, with publishers scurrying from one award ceremony to the next, buoyed along by the hope of slapping those “Winner!” stickers on their authors’ books — or at least hoping to have a good meal and a quick exit from the fête du jour. September…Continue Reading
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Tagged Ali Smith, Book-of-the-Month, Booker Prize, Bookspan, Clifton Fadiman, David Malouf, Fadiman Award, Frankfurt eBook Award, Hotel World, Lannan Literary Award, Merchantile Library, National Book Awards, Neustadt International Prize for Literature, Nobel Prize, Rachel Seiffert, Robert Creeley, The Dark Room, The Whiting Writers' Award, University of Oklahoma, World Literature Today
The Streets of London Cumming Goes Undercover, More Fodder for Potter, and Delahunt Reaches for the Orange With all eyes focusing intently on the latest deals from the London Book Fair, we thought we’d swivel the periscope toward what’s hitting the stores this summer in the UK. For starters, Charles Cumming’s A Spy By Nature…Continue Reading
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Tagged A Spy By Nature, Al Zuckerman, Ali Smith, Andrew McMeel, Annette Green, Another Life, Bloomsbury, Booker Prize, Border Crossing, Caroline Dawnay, Charles Cumming, Curtis Brown, David Godwin, Dear Mom, Eleftheroudakis, Fred and Edie, Hamish Hamilton, Hari Kunzru, Harry Potter, Hodder, Hotel World, In the Blue House, Ion Gruffedd, Janklow & Nesbit, Jasper Fforde, Jill Dawson, Jim Crace, Joanne Rowling, Jonathan Coe, Jonny Geller, Justin Hill, Linda Jones, London Book Fair, Looking for Mr. Right, Louis de Bernieres, Lucas Alexander Whitley, Meaghan Delahunt, Michael Joseph, Natasha Little, Orange Prize, Pat Barker, Penguin, Peter Tallick, Peters Fraser & Dunlop, Phillip Pullman, Robert Harris, Sceptre, Sid Smith, Simon Prosser, Something Like a House, Target, Terry Pratchett, The Amber Spyglass, The Blue Day Book, The Drink and the Dream Teahouse, The Rotters Club, Walden, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Zadie Smith
