Provocateur John Reed reflects on the decade in publishing based
on his experience publishing his 9/11 Orwell satire Snowball's Chance in 2002
and again in 2012.
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Authors, in particular, now have more opportunities to get their
books into the world and generate an audience for them, though this is not
without compromise.
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With rumors swirling that Apple is a possible sponsor of the
ex-Orange Prize in the UK, we ask how do you feel about the possibility.
Good? Bad? Indifferent?
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Chinese publishing is on a roll with 370,000 titles published in
2011, up 12.5%, with 48 selling 1m+ copies. Total revenue hit $229 bn, up
18%.
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From Jaipur to Melbourne to Edinburgh, Word Alliance aims to
help top international book festivals lobby for government funding and to
spread best practices.
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From the Archives:
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As India becomes increasingly globalized, readers are snapping
up new spirituality, self-help and diet books — many of them inspired by
ideas from overseas.
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Former leading New Zealand publisher and bookseller, and widely experienced judge of both the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, talks about what he is currently reading, what impresses him and what doesn't, along with chat about the international English language book scene, and links to sites of interest to booklovers.
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Publishing Perspectives
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