Author and founder of the BuyMeOnce website Tara Button was a shopaholic until she fell in love with a Le Creuset pot. Now disposable is a dirty wordForget retail therapy. It’s so yesterday. Avoiding frequent visits to the shops is a better way to serenity, claims a book published this week, which offers a step-by-step guide to resisting a system it says is trying to make us “broke and lonely”.Tara Button has written A Life Less Throwaway because, she says: “Our lives have become stuffed full of things that let us down, cause our stress levels to skyrocket and our bank accounts to empty.” From stockings to scissors to smartphones, her mission is to find objects so durable you’ll only have to buy them once. But first we have to change our mindset, she says, from endless, low-quality disposable purchases to a new way of thinking she calls “mindful curation”. Related: What do you mean we need a new cooker? We only got it in 1963 Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
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A debut novelist who spent nine years trying to get her first book published is rewarded for her persistence with a £10,000 literary prize for original fiction. Continue reading at BBC News
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In October Amazon launches Kindle MatchBook, an arrangement that lets you purchase the Kindle edition of books you've already bought from them in print for $2.99 or less. The agreement currently covers about 10,000 books from a variety of publishers, and the prices are valid for any book... Continue reading at Fast Company
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A book published during the presidency of Chester A. Arthur has a greater chance of being in print today than one published during the time of Reagan. Continue reading at The Atlantic
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When New Harbinger Publications cofounders Matthew McKay and Patrick Fanning were establishing their small press in 1973, it was Fanning’s monthly reading of Popular Mechanics magazine that served as a step-by-step guide to book publishing for the partners. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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A book published by one-man band Prospect Books has won the prestigious André Simon... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Every book published each season is its own startup. By adopting some of the principles that drive Silicon Valley, publishers really don't have anything to lose. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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American author Jack Kerouac's first ever novel, which was thought to be lost, has been published 40 years after his death. Continue reading at BBC News
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Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Mon, 22/08/2011 - 11:39 An autobiography by Only Fools and Horses star John Boycie Challis will be the first book published by new company Wigmore Books, set up by writer Peter Burden. read more Continue reading at The Bookseller
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I've been lucky enough to have my book published in a few countries now, and despite the universal subject matterthe periodic tableeach country has had a different take on it. Some publishers merely tweaked the book: The British, for instance, re-imagined the cover. More drastically, the... Continue reading at Slate
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