Why Foyles Won Bookseller Of The Year
or ‘Know What You Do And Do It Well.’ I’m not sure the words ‘outrage’ or ‘controversy’ fully convey the level of disgust with which…
Prospects for UK publishing: retail, eBooks and digital opportunities [event]
Thursday, 24th May 2012 (London) Guest of Honour: Richard Mollet, Chief Executive, The Publishers Association This seminar will offer a…
BookMachine Weekly BookWrap: publishing stories from around the web
This week on the site, we were Revisiting elearning in the Web 2.0 age with Anna Faherty, and Felice Howden asked What Game Is Anobii…
London Literature Festival announces 2012 line-up
Line-up announcements have been made and tickets have gone on sale for this year’s London Literature Festival, happening at the Southbank Centre from 3-12 July.…
Revisiting elearning in the Web 2.0 age
Anna Faherty is a writer, editor and lecturer in publishing. A decade or more ago, elearning was heralded by many as the panacea to…
Century buys rights to Wool, inevitable sheep jokes
Fed up with self-publishing success stories yet? Waiting for the straw that breaks the camel’s back and sends everyone scurrying back to tried and tested…
Retailer Plus Social Reading Equals: What Game Is Anobii Playing?
If, like me, you spend a lot of time on the internet (like… y’know… enough to clock when adverts change on the same web pages)…
BookMachine Weekly BookWrap: publishing stories from around the web
On the site this week, we asked Do Publishers Expect Authors To Market Themselves? There was also the chance to Win a great new novel by…
‘I don’t set out to make children happy’: RIP Maurice Sendak
That he was in his 84th year doesn’t soften the blow of Maurice Sendak’s death of complications from a stroke earlier this week. The beloved…
Win a great new novel by asking the author a question! [COMPETITION]
Carolyn Jess Cooke is an exceptional writing talent, and author of The Guardian Angel’s Journal, her new novel The Boy Who Could See Demons has…
Virago to release ‘coming of age’ collection aimed at young women, Maya Angelou completists
In a bid to reclaim some of that £3 million of sweet young adult money from Pottermore, Virago Modern Classics is preparing to publish a…
Do Publishers Expect Authors To Market Themselves?
Last week I over-read someone on Twitter saying that ‘Trad pub expect authors to do most marketing these days’. I jumped in with my contrarian…
Digital rises, print declines, sky blue: Publisher’s Association releases 2011 figures
Time to blow off that screening of The Avengers you were planning on catching this evening, because something far more exciting has come up: statistics,…
Did it all for the Nook e-reader: Microsoft invests $300 million in Barnes & Noble
Having had quite enough of all these knee-cappings and assorted other cripplings at the hands of Amazon, American bookselling chain Barnes & Noble has announced…
Tor Swaps DRM for PR
Last week’s breaking news from the USA was that Macmillan SFF imprint Tor have pledged to their readers that by ‘early July 2012, their entire…
