Category: publishing

No, but Amazon doesn’t seem to care – and she keeps on posting positive reviews, and selling the books online.

The author popularity rank is providing adult writers with a hefty dose of teenaged-level anxiety. (Wait, though: This has some perks for readers.)

“How will you work with our real-time global platform, where anyone can contribute to your story at any moment? The proposal must fit into the time window of our five-day festival — but that means that a project could run for the length of the festival, or just for an hour.”

Mo Yan, the new Nobel literature laureate, works in a contemporary idiom and is seen as more-or-less mainstream, mainland establishment. On the other hand, dissident and exile Liao Yiwu, in his speech accepting the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, said of the People’s Republic, “This empire must break apart.” Meanwhile, Taiwanese poet Yang Mu, winner of the Newman Prize for Chinese Literature, models himself after the medieval Chinese poet-scholars.

“Newsweek Global, as the all-digital publication will be named, will be a single, worldwide edition targeted for a highly mobile, opinion-leading audience who want to learn about world events in a sophisticated context.”

“In spite of the stakes the issue has receded from the political frontline like a wave shrinking down a beach. It seems that the wave never quite reached our beach – the beach of fiction writing – in the first place.”

“Senior figures at Guardian News & Media are seriously discussing the move to an entirely online operation, it has been claimed, leaving [editor-in-chief Alan] Rusbridger increasingly isolated.” The newspaper is said to lose tens of millions of pounds each year.

“There is no truth in reports that The Guardian intends to stop printing newspapers. Our newspapers generate three-quarters of our revenue and will remain the foundations of our organisation for many years to come.”

“Ironically, the same digital tech that made the Hamlet Bookmark possible is changing our conception of books again, as we watch texts become transmogrified into variably formatted e-books and scrolling webpages.”

“Above all else, language should be generous and liberating, and these writers remind us of the pure pleasure to be found in the free play and musicality of words. Their sentences sing rather than grumble or shout, and we are all the richer for them.”