Books & Reading

Posted: Thu 18 Apr 2013

Review of Sally Ashton's novella 'Controller'. Read more...

Posted: Thu 13 Dec 2012

Alex James used Amazon’s CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform and Kindle Direct Publishing to get my first book in print and on Kindle. Did it work?  Read more...

Posted: Wed 21 Nov 2012

27-year-old Joel Dicker this year threw the publishing world into a scramble for rights at the Frankfurt Book Fair, with his second published novel being touted as the next global phenomenon. Read more...

Posted: Sun 21 Oct 2012

The Shadowing Scheme, run in partnership with emagazine, enables students to take part in shadowing the judges of this year’s prize to select the poet they think should win well before the judges’ decision in January. Read more...

Posted: Tue 21 Aug 2012

Through small vignettes Campbell inundates his Northeast with a poetic sensibility Read more...

Posted: Wed 15 Aug 2012

Oranges are not the only fruit, especially when it comes to the Orange Prize for Fiction. Read more...

Posted: Tue 14 Aug 2012

According to an Amazon UK release, the company is now selling more ebooks than hardback or paperback books in Britain, a tipping point that we reached in the U.S. over a year ago. It took four years for U.S. ebook sales to overtake print sales.  Read more...

Posted: Tue 14 Aug 2012

Watch your back, James Patterson. Sleep with one eye open, Stephen King. Men still top the list of the world’s highest-earning authors, but this year it’s the women on the list who’ve been making the boldest moves, led by a trio of genre phenoms: Suzanne Collins, E.L. James and J.K. Rowling. Read more...

Posted: Mon 30 Jul 2012

FastPencil hopes that the offering will help set it apart from free self-publishing platforms like Amazon’s KDP Read more...

Posted: Mon 30 Jul 2012

It’s finally here: Google’s long anticipated, full-throated fair use defense for its library scanning program. In its motion for Summary Judgment in the Authors Guild vs. Google, filed on July 27, Google attorneys argue that its keyword searchable index of books scanned from library shelves “passes with ease” the ultimate test of fair use, because it provides “enormous transformative benefit” to the public, without “reducing the value” of any authors’ work Read more...