Seven Figure Book Deal Proves Talent Beats Data
While the government is busy telling us to tighten our belts and make our own sandwiches, publishers are honey-badgering these times of austerity and whipping out…
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Hunger Games adaptation turns from trilogy into tetralogy
In a bid to reclaim attention from certain other trilogies that, sure, are getting all the attention just now because they’re ostensibly more ‘adult’, even…
BookMachine London – 26th July [EVENT]
BookMachine London Thursday, July 26, 2012 at 6:30 PM Porter’s Basement Bar (The Green Man), 383 Euston Rd, NW1 3AU, London BookMachine…
Peter Hook to continue to remind everyone he was in Joy Division with memoir
In further news of musicians releasing memoirs whose claims to revealing ‘the truth’ should be greeted with a raised eyebrow and reminders that several people…
The Inimitable Success of the Self-Published
There are quite a few authors around the world who have sold a lot of books on their own when they didn’t with publishers, and…
Four Great Things about the Pop Up Festival of Stories [REPORT]
This is a guest post from Margaret Eckel, who is a freelance PR Co-ordinator. You can find her on Linkedin and Twitter. This past weekend…
Mills & Boon empower women everywhere with digital erotica relaunch
In our latest instalment of ‘Fifty Shades of Grey, A-Hur-Hur-Hur’: venerable pensioner stimulators Mills & Boon have relaunched 12 backlist short stories on their digital-only…
Dan Brown settles into permanent, rightful home at Oxfam
Whilst the other records he’s set gradually fall by the wayside, Da Vinci Code pedlar Dan Brown can at least be proud of his continued claim…
Cover Design: When Change is a Good Thing
True story: there are some really, absolutely, unquestionably terrible book covers in the world – ones that make you want to approach bookshelves with a…
Harper Collins shifts loads of cut-price Cox
In further news of multi-hyphenate musicians bringing out things that could technically be described as books, The Guardian has word of instructive sales stats for…
Writing for The Round [interview]
The changing nature of publishing is forcing Publishing houses, writers, authors – content creators – to think differently, experiment and look at working with new…
R. Kelly to release spectacularly-titled autobiography
Now usually I don’t do this, but uh, go ahead and break ’em off with a little preview of the memoir: now I’m not trying…
5 questions for the hosts of BookMachine Oxford – 28th June [INTERVIEW]
Charly Ford and Emily Holmes work at Osprey Group in Oxford and will be hosts of the next BookMachine shindig in Oxford. We thought you…
Bardowl launches streaming audiobook subscription service
In a move that will either be hailed as bringing publishing in line with the demands of a perma-streaming society or derided as pandering to…
Fifty Shades of Grey fastest selling UK paperback no one admits to buying
In news that, for the sake of hilarity, we’ll attribute to The Daily Mail, EL James’ piece of Twilight slash fiction Fifty Shades of Grey has…
