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Category: publishing
Wht Digital Rights Management Is Bad For The Book Business
If all DRM did was drive legit customers to pirate downloads, that would be bad enough for publishers. But that’s just the most obvious way that DRM is bad for business.
How Prizes Are Ruining Poetry
“The sheer number of poets now plying their craft inevitably ensures moderation and safety. The national (or even transnational) demand for a certain kind of prize-winning, “well-crafted” poem–a poem that the New Yorker would see fit to print and that would help its author get one of the “good jobs” advertised by the Association of Writers & Writing Programs–has produced an extraordinary uniformity.”
Egyptian Writers Plead With Their Government To Let Them Attend Gaza Lit Fest
“Egyptian authors, bloggers, journalists and revolutionaries are calling on their government to issue permits for them to enter Gaza and participate in the Palestine festival of literature, which is scheduled to start on Saturday in the embattled territory.”
Hilary Mantel On Putting Words In The Mouths Of Her Tudor Characters
“How do you give the past a human voice without betraying it or making your reader furiously impatient? Too much period flavor, and you slow up the story. ‘Nay, damsel, be not afeared,’ may be authentic, but it will make your reader giggle. If you give way to an outbreak of ‘prithee’ and ‘perchance,’ then perchance your reader will hurl the book across the room.”
UK E-Book Sales Soar 54 Percent
“Digital content now accounts for 8% of the total value of book sales in 2011 – it made up 5% in 2010. However, total book sales fell by 2%, with the market worth £3.2bn.”
Why Do Lovers Of Literature Love Beating Up On Critics So Much?
“From Henry James to Heidi Julavitis, writers seem to delight in publishing manifestos that outline the book review’s shortcomings and inadequacies.”
The Greatest Author-vs.-Critic Feuds Of All Time
“The face-slaps, spitting contests, and pie fights that occur when one author turns his pen on another.”
Microsoft Invests In The Nook, Heating Up The E-Book Market
“The deal, which gives Microsoft a 17.6 percent stake, values the Nook unit at $1.7 billion — roughly double Barnes & Noble’s entire market value as of last Friday — and bolsters the bookseller’s efforts to make its digital business the linchpin of its future growth.”
Alison Bechdel’s New Graphic Memoir Is About Her Mother – What Does Mom Think?
“She really feels like the book is – she sees the hostility; she doesn’t see the love. And that is distressing to me. … I got a pre-pub review that talked about my ‘substantive yet essentially distant’ relationship with my mother, and I showed her that review and she was really psyched about it. … She did not seem the least bit fazed to hear our relationship described as ‘substantive yet essentially distant’.”