Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Fostering Literary Respect for Underrepresented Regions, Authors


The relaunched Commonwealth Book Prize continues to be a key conduit of exchange between underrepresented countries and regions to the UK publishing community.
The week's online debates: the utility of beta readers, the prevalence of "bad books," social DRM, Kickstarter for books, and the death of the personal journal.
More News from PP:
Author M.H. Forsyth looks into the first appearance of these two words, and why one came before the other.
A study from Renaissance Learning shows that the complexity of texts students are assigned to read has declined nearly three grade levels over the past century.
From the Archives:
Australia’s Bookworld has guaranteed that it will beat Amazon and other online competitors’ prices by 10%. But are they risking losing too much profit?

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