Category: publishing

“As digital disruption continues to reshape the publishing market, self-publishing — including distribution digitally or as print on demand — has become more and more popular, and more feasible, with an increasing array of options for anyone with an idea and a keyboard.”

“The Pulitzer citation called Stag’s Leap ‘a book of unflinching poems on the author’s divorce that examine love, sorrow and the limits of self-knowledge’.”

The office said it received 464 reports in 2012, up from 326 in 2011.

“For the first time there is a majority of women. It is also an extremely international list: the writers’ backgrounds – and storytelling interests – include China, Nigeria, Ghana, the US, Bangladesh and Pakistan.”

“Waterstone’s Read Petite would give readers unlimited access to available book for a few bucks a month. The service will launch this fall, and it will be interesting to see how it is received by readers and, more importantly, publishers.”

“What really annoyed me about last year was that the implication that there was something wrong with fiction — that they didn’t pick a work of fiction because there wasn’t a good enough work of fiction. And the problem was with the process, not the fiction.”

“Having long since shaken off the kind of stigma that still attaches to, say, self-published fiction, the self-published photobook is currently a mini-phenomenon within the bigger thriving culture of photography book publishing.”

“Research shows that our loans encourage people to buy books. It is not in the long-term interests of authors (or publishers) to deny library e-lending.”

“Whether or not one sees the situation as mired in doom and gloom or poised on the brink of iconoclastic rejuvenation, it is certainly in furious flux.”

“Titans of international literature Haruki Murakami [1Q84] and Michel Houellebecq [The Map And The Territory] are going head-to-head on the shortlist for the €100,000 Impac award” – alongside, among others, Sjón’s From the Mouth of the Whale, Julie Otsuka’s The Buddha in the Attic, and Karen Russell’s Swamplandia!.