Readers gravitated to books promising resources, advice, encouragement — or escape —in troubled times. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-07-08 04:00:00 UTC ]
From 1 May, bringing forward a plan originally scheduled for the end of the year, the Government has removed VAT from e-books. It was a change lobbied for by many writers, as well as the big publishers. They rallied under the stirring slogan ‘No Tax on Learning’. This is a good thing, surely,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-05-04 08:40:06 UTC ]
In her relentlessly linear narrative of more than 60 years of Spanish and Chilean history, Allende takes great pains to describe the real, lived effects of two dictatorships. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-01-23 13:50:56 UTC ]
Faber is set to release a "major" Barbara Kingsolver novel later this year, entitled Unsheltered. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-01-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
On my various travels around the world, I find myself dwelling repeatedly in these troubled times about the social and economic value of books and how we as an industry could be doing more to promote this collectively. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-06-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Literary scout Simone Garzella looks at what's selling in the the Arabic book market how the region continues to evolve amidst some troubled times. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]