Ebenezer Scrooge named most popular Dickens character
Penguin Books poll to mark 200th anniversary of author's birth reveals miser from A Christmas Carol as best lovedA cold-hearted miser bullied by ghosts into gaining a conscience has triumphed over a festering, jilted bride and an alcoholic, nihilistic ...
BEA May Open to the Public
In 2013, book lovers could get a chance to explore BookExpo America (BEA), the major publishing industry trade show that has been traditionally limited to industry professionals.
BEA event director Steven Rosato posted about the potential change on the...
Beacon Press & Other Press Place Super Bowl Bet
Boston-based publisher Beacon Press and New York-based Other Press have a promotional wager riding on the Super Bowl.
Here’s more from the release: “the publisher whose home team loses (Beacon’s New England Patriots or Other’s New Yor...
The self-epublishing bubble
In August 2011, Ewan Morrison published an article entitled Are Books Dead and Can Authors Survive?. Here, he tracks the self-epublishing euphoria of the last five months and argues that we are at the start of an epublishing bubbleThe internet is full...
Writers bid to revive letter-writing
Famous names including Dave Eggers are offering to write letters to subscribers on a weekly basisA gentlemanly riposte to email is being launched by the literary world as Dave Eggers heads a group of authors who are turning instead to the old-fashioned...
Jamie Raab Interview Sparks eBook Royalty Debate
GalleyCat contributor Jeff Rivera interviewed Grand Central publisher Jamie Raab for mediabistro.com’s So What Do You Do? feature today.
In the interview, Raab (pictured, via) defended her imprint’s standard practice of giving authors a 25% roy...
Paulo Coelho calls on readers to pirate books
Multimillion-selling author links with Pirate Bay, saying 'the more people "pirate" a book, the better'Bestselling Brazilian novelist Paulo Coelho is joining in with a new promotion on the notorious file-sharing site the Pirate Bay, and calling on "pir...
Jonathan Franzen warns ebooks are corroding values
Freedom author tells festival audience that the 'impermanence' of ebooks is incompatible with enduring principlesJonathan Franzen has spoken of his fear that ebooks will have a detrimental effect on the world – and his belief that serious readers wil...
Gordon Brown to publish predictions for 2025
Subtitled 'Shaping a New Future' the former prime minister's book will outline his view of where the world is headingGeorge Orwell envisaged that a totalitarian state ruled by Big Brother would be in place by 1984; Arthur C Clarke dreamed of a self-awa...
Diana Burfield obituary
My friend Diana Burfield, who has died aged 83, was the dynamo during the 1960s behind Tavistock Publications, Tavipubs for short, the publishing arm of the Tavistock Institute and Clinic, London. Her breadth of intellect and human skills cajoled a ran...
Fiction in translation’s future?