Category: publishing

“We have always placed a high value on the role that libraries can play in connecting our authors with our readers. However, due to new concerns about the security of our digital editions, we find it necessary to delay the availability of our new titles in the digital format while we resolve these concerns with our business partners.”

“Now in its 19th year, the award, organised annually by the Literary Review, was set up to mock the gratuitous and often excrutiatingly embarrassing descriptions of sex in literature.”

“For a moment it seemed as if this would be the year in which peace broke out on the slopes of Parnassus. In May, Theroux shook hands with Naipaul. In America, the critic Dale Peck made up with his long-term foe, ‘the worst writer of his generation’, novelist Rick Moody. So, thank God for Prof Ferguson’s thin skin.”

“As the adult book world turns digital at a faster rate than publishers expected, sales of e-books for titles aimed at children under 8 have barely budged. They represent less than 5 percent of total annual sales of children’s books, several publishers estimated, compared with more than 25 percent in some categories of adult books.”

In Norway, writers deal with a reality worse than the imaginings of the bloodiest of crime novelists.

Yes, say hundreds of self-published authors complaining about Penguin’s new e-book publishing service.

What if a book reviewer wrote a review entirely in the interrogative of a book written entirely in the interrogative? Is that cutesy or smart? (We’ll let you decide.)

Mantel’s multi-award-winning novel about Thomas Cromwell will be part of a trilogy. The second volume, titled Bring Up the Bodies and concentrating on the downfall of Anne Boleyn, will appear next May. Part Three, The Mirror & the Light, will recount Cromwell’s own ruin and execution.

“A rare notebook, unheard of before, belonging to Nobel laureate and Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore will be auctioned in New York in December. … It contains 12 hand-written Bengali poems and 12 lyrics for Bengali songs.”

Bland general reviews really serve little purpose…