The world's biggest book sale, redux. Make that 2.5 million
Thanks to the miracles of time zones I’m able to report today, part way through Monday 09...
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Author: Mark Williams
Microfiction on mobiles drives India's online literature boom
Further to our coverage of the Indian micro-fiction site Terribly Tiny Tales (TTT) early this...
Read MoreNobel prize wins sends Ishiguro sales soaring in India
There’s nothing like a good literary prize win to boost publishers’ bottom lines. Last year it was Bob Dylan seeing his book and music sales soar after he was awarded the Nobel prize for literature. This year Kazuo...
Read MoreThe Hot Sheet reviewed (first October 2017 edition)
Prior to the launch of The New Publishing Standard one of my plans was to have a regular Sunday feature summarising the latest Hot Sheet (the industry news-sheet for authors, produced every two weeks by Porter Anderson and Jane...
Read More"Nobody is rewarding writers so nobody wants to write" – the state of Nigerian literature
“Nobody is rewarding writers so nobody wants to write,” laments Morenike Taire over at Nigeria’s Vanguard, in a discussion about the latest Nobel Prize for literature. Taire continues, “The level of...
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