The relaunched Commonwealth Book
Prize continues to be a key conduit of exchange between underrepresented
countries and regions to the UK publishing community.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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