“The judges can hardly have been surprised by a YouTube acceptance speech glinting with ill grace, after awarding the Wingate Jewish Quarterly prize to Shalom Auslander for Hope: A Tragedy. Anything milder wouldn’t really have been in keeping with the author.”
Category: publishing
Publisher Pulls Second Jonah Lehrer Book From Shelves
“On Friday night, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, which published all three of Mr. Lehrer’s books, confirmed that after an internal fact-checking review of his second book, How We Decide, it would no longer offer it for sale.”
How Is It Possible To Like John Milton?
“There is certainly a great deal to dislike. Most people would think of him as an overlearned poet who combines labyrinthine syntax with a wide range of moral and intellectual vices. His views on sex and women, for example, were mostly gruesome.” But Colin Burrow has a suggestion or two.
Reviewer: I Trashed Your Novels Because I Couldn’t Sell One Of My Own
“It is true: I did not like their novels. But my dislike was set aflame by jealousy of young men whose profiles were similar to mine and who had managed to do what I had not. I remain more embarrassed by that piece than by any other.”
What IS ‘Literary Fiction’?
Ask The New York Review of Books – or should we call that The New York Review of E-Books?
Will The EU Lead The Way On Open Access Publishing?
“Not all EU members are as keen on the idea as the UK, and the council heard sober warnings that ‘open access to research data will require that various other aspects such as intellectual property rights, security issues and data protection rules be taken into account.'”
The Artful Book Cover (It’s Not Easy)
“In bigger workshops, like the Bindery in London, where 14 craftsmen work, the tasks are split between a designer; a seamstress; a forwarder, who prepares and covers the book with cloth or leather; and a finisher, who decorates and titles it with gold or other metals.”
How Do You Design The Perfect EBook Cover?
“To stand out from thousands of rivals on digital shelves like Amazon, an e-book cover must be bolder, simpler and more legible than its print counterpart, graphic designers say.”
Nobel Laureate Mo Yan To Critics: You’re Just Jealous
“Mo Yan, winner of the Nobel prize for literature, has taken on the critics who have dismissed him for being too close to the Chinese government, saying they envy him the award and are distorting the meaning of his work.”
Is Digital Comic Book Publisher Showing The Future Of Print Publishing?
“MonkeyBrain has quickly established itself as one of the most interesting companies in the digital space not only because of its willingness to leave so much control in the hands of actual comics creators, but also its real-time exploration of what it means to publish digitally in a medium that is still finding its footing in the format.”