Bibliobibuli

Bizarrely, (withholding the books) probably meant we sold more books. We wouldn’t have done this well otherwise ... Palgrave Macmillan exe...

How fair is it for a local publisher to offer these terms to writers submitting work to their anthology?  My friend and writing buddy Damy...

Book publishing is simply becoming self-publishing says Virginia Heffernan in The New York Times , making the point that the stigma once a...

Print books are never going to go away; but the current distribution model will. 2012 could be a year of disaster, not because of the Mayan...

Boing Boing comments : Here's an adorable, tricky and clever video on the future of publishing, courtesy of the Penguin folks, who ...

At the heart of the process of choosing who to publish is, obviously, editorial taste, but it’s difficult to pin down exactly how we choos...

American psychiatrist Stephen Bergman (who writes fiction under the pen name Samuel Shem ) contributes an anecdotal piece called Five Laws ...

... money-­making booksellers, exploited and impoverished authors, celebrity book launches and career-making prizes ... Classics professo...

This is A-Z how books are made. Honestly. [From Macmillan, US and found via ]

This picture (left) made me feel quite nostalgic for those old-fashioned Penguins with the orange and white covers and the happy memories of...

India’s achievements in publishing are formidable by any standards ... says Urvashi Butalia in the Hindu Literary Review , and then goes on ...

Found 4th Estates excellent bookishly heartwarming video This is Where We Live which celebrate the publisher's 25th anniversary [via P...

Publishing houses are certainly bleeding, and those that haven't yet started to take staff and books out to the woodshed, ax in hand, a...

How you like the saucy new cover for Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale ? Yes, it is a joke, sort of. Earlier this month Bookninj...

There's a nice piece in StarTwo 's Youth 2 section today about young Malaysian authors. Sharmila Nair and Ian Yee interview Lim May...

The demise of publishing has been predicted since the days of Gutenberg. But for most of the past century—through wars and depressions—the b...

What do ... Francesca Beard, Sharanya Manivannan, Jasmine Low, Priya K, KG, Liyana Yusof and Poetica and others have in common? Poetry? Ye...

Caveat lector! The endorsements on books aren’t entirely impartial. Unbeknownst to the average reader, blurbs are more often than not from t...

The Observer 's literary editor Robert McCrum hangs up his hat after more than 10 years in the job and gives us a fascinating whistle-st...

Jean Hannah Edelstein on the Guardian blog reports on an initiative by HarperCollins to help new writers avoid the slush-pile . Instead of ...