Behaving badly: authors and reviewers...
In a suspenseful piece in the Guardian about her relationship with a toxic anonymous reviewer, author Kathleen Hale touched upon some of the ways that author...
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Writers and sheds in the Guardian
OK.. it's waay off topic. But I'm a writer of certain age so this little pictorial collection of writers' sheds in the Guardian really pushed my button. I me...
Two self-publishing stories
Publishers Weekly profiled Eileen Goudge this week. Goudge is an established traditionally-published author who, faced with falling sales and dissolving adva...
The Economist predicts e-book sales w...
Despite the recent reported slow down in e-book sales, in a nifty interactive infographic the Economist forecasts that sales will continue to rise nonetheles...
Write-Track - a wordcount-based write...
The Airship this week featured a profile of Write-Track, a wordcount app with an associated community. The piece is perhaps a little uncritical but the envir...
E-reader producer allegedly spies on ...
According to The Digital Reader, the producer in question is Adobe. Adobe is gathering data on the ebooks that have been opened, which pages were read, and i...
The decline of the physical book slows
Electric Literature reports a Nielsen survey, that suggests the rise of the e-book has slowed: The fact that print is still the dominant format with 67% comb...
Will Self on the future of reading
Hello, I'm back by the way (long story). Will Self's article in the Guardian on Saturday was a fascinating tour of some of the issues that face writers, publ...