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Last Updated 04.07.08

To give or give not

When Doris Lessing accepted the Nobel Prize in Literature in December, she spoke movingly about the work she had done with an organisation taking books into villages in Zimbabwe. She talked of how a box of books, one of which could...

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Discussing diversity

Last year a Diversity in Publishing Network survey revealed that fewer than 4% of people working in editorial and senior roles within publishing are from ethnic minorities, and the prevailing perception of industry is that it is...

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Indies keep up with the Joneses

Pop into an independent bookshop next week and you might see Jilly Cooper behind the till, Alan Titchmarsh stocking shelves or Gyles Brandreth packing returns. No, these writers are not supplementing their incomes with...

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Progress in production

With digitisation and increased ethical and environmentally friendly printing, production departments are expanding their roles. The Bookseller finds out how to pursue a career in this rapidly evolving...

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In the lap of luxury

The name’s Bond. Bentley Bond. Or, to be precise, the Bentley Bond Spec­ial Series edition of Devil May Care, Sebastian Faulks’ take on 007, published by Penguin last month. This luxury edition is designed to...

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Can Woolies make books stack up?

It used to be difficult to find the books in most Woolworths shops—they seemed to be hidden somewhere among the pick-’n’-mix, bargain CDs and inexpensive Worth It home electricals. No longer. Since hiring...

 

eBabel on and on

Perhaps you were one of the keen early adopters who rushed out to Borders earlier this month to plunk down £399 on iRex's iLiad, the first dedicated e-book reader launched in the UK. If you were able to speed-read...

 

The long bad Friday

You live by the sword, you die by the sword. In The Friday Project’s (TFP) case, the sword was the ­internet—the brave new world that offers almost infinite possibilities, and just as many perils. Launched in...

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Tesco's giant strides

The much-maligned supermarket giant now stocks books in 731 stores, and aims to double sales to £200m within three years. Planned new approaches span literary fiction, children’s books,  paperbacks of the year, book...

 

Automatic for the people

It is probably safe to say that few people have gone into publishing for their love of computers and IT. Throw a phrase like “rich metadata”  into conversation at industry events and you can just see...

 

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