Commissioning Editor at RotoVision [JOB POSTING]
RotoVision produces co-edition books on craft, art, fashion and beauty and we are now looking for a talented and creative Commissioning Editor to join our…
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Shortlist announced for Frank O’Connor short story prize
The Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award – reputedly the world’s richest short story prize, awarding €25,000 annually to the author of the year’s best…
Edinburgh Book Festival 2014: Murakami, Amis, George R. R. Martin
Yes, that Murakami. The programme for this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival was unveiled yesterday, and while the presence of noted hat-wearing wolf-lover George R.…
You won’t sass George R. R. Martin like that when he can summon wolves
If you’re an eccentric, philanthropic tycoon who is really into grisly fantasy and just wants what’s best for wolves, then 1) congratulations, because you sound…
Praise a Publisher Day [COMPETITION]
In one of our more lucid moments we decided that today is Praise a Publisher day. There’s now a search feature on BookMachine.me, which means…
Baileys Women’s Prize goes to Eimear McBride
This year’s Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction has gone to Eimear McBride for her debut novel, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing. The book has…
A Hunger Games theme park may be imminent
If you read Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games trilogy and thought to yourself ‘[sigh], I wish that was me being made to fight to the death…
No end in sight in dispute between Amazon and Hachette
Shots fired in the ongoing dispute between Amazon and Hachette in the US over profit margins on ebooks: so little faith does the online retail…
Michael Gove removes American texts from GCSE syllabus
Conservative education secretary Michael Gove has had numerous works by American authors removed from the English literature GCSE syllabus, expressing a wish that students instead…
How to get into publishing
After much hard work trying to break into the industry, Jasmine Joynson found her dream job as Publicity Assistant at one of the big five…
2014 Orwell Prize goes to Alan Johnson
Less than a month after its shortlist was revealed, the 2014 Orwell Prize for political writing has gone to Labour MP Alan Johnson for his…
Jonathan Safran Foer has Chipotle print prose on packaging
In news whose tolerability likely correlates directly to your own patience for its chief proponent, American restaurant chain Chipotle has begun printing specially commissioned short…
Kim Scott Walwyn Prize goes to Anne Perry
Continuing a big week for industry prizes, this year’s Kim Scott Walwyn Prize has been awarded to Anne Perry, editor with Hodder & Stoughton. The…
Little, Brown and Blackwell’s top Bookseller Industry Awards
The Bookseller Industry Awards took place last night in London, with a crowded field of winners led by Blackwell’s, named Book Retailer of the Year,…
The Digital Challenge: Disintermediation [AN EXTRACT FROM ‘THE CONTENT MACHINE’]
This is an extract from The Content Machine: Towards a Theory of Publishing from the Printing Press to the Digital Network, by Michael Bhaskar. …
