If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Nobody knows much, if anything at all about Shakespeare: that’s the premise Bryson sets out to prove in this slim, amusing volume. The fact that it runs to fewer than 200 pages is testament to the playwright’s relative anonymity, […]
The BBC has bought Lonely Planet. Not just a single guidebook to help research a coming series, but the whole lot. Books, websites, TV shows and all, though its commercial arm, BBC Worldwide. Reuters reckons it cost about £100m, which roughly roughly equates its profits last year.
It’s a logical fit, and great news for all […]
What a shame. As a 10-year publishing phenomenon reaches its climax it’s been turned into nothing more than a supermarket price war.
This morning, or just after midnight last night to be accurate, the final volume in the seven-book Harry Potter saga went on sale, and his journey came to what Rowling called a pretty clear […]
Jane Austen would have trouble finding a publisher today, says Reuters, completely missing the fact that, actually, she has plenty of publishers, as her books have probably never been more easily available than they are today.
But you can see their logic. Struggling writer David Lassman sent copies of several Austen chapters to 18 different publishers, […]
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