Blogs

Fail again, fail better

Anna Vaught Author

Here is a call for those of us involved in writing - and perhaps in all sectors of the book industry - to speak openly... Read more

Begin, again, repeat

By Philip Jones

Editor at The Bookseller

By the time you read this, the British Book Awards “virtual” ceremony will have been run, the winners will have been announced and the trade... Read more

Rethinking diversity... together

Dr Sandra van Lente Guest lecturer at the Centre for British Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Germany is as much a multicultural country as the UK – with these words, the tone was set for a day of exchange between British... Read more

The burden of representation

Anmol Irfan Journalist and writer

When Awais Khan’s In The Company Of Strangers came out in 2020, I couldn’t wait to support rising local authors. After all the Pakistani literary industry... Read more

Childhood is poetry

Yasmine Shamma Lecturer in Literature at the University of Reading

Yesterday, our son Nadim had the poems he wrote when he was four published by Walker Books. His book, Take Off Your Brave, is vibrantly... Read more

Man Down

By Philip Jones

Editor at The Bookseller

A propos nothing in particular, I thought I’d talk about ambiguity this week. Read more

Defend our designers and illustrators

Libby Hamilton Editorial director of picture books, Andersen Press.

At 23:59 tonight, the government consultation will close on funding for higher education in 2021/2022. Why should we in publishing care about that? Because it... Read more

Piracy is not the answer

Nick Fowler and Steven Inchcoombe Co-chairs of the Scholarly Networks Security Initiative

Last month, the City of London Police’s Intellectual Property Crime Unit issued a warning to universities and students about using the pirate website Sci-Hub. Not... Read more

Academic publishing is broken

Raphael Tsavkko Garcia Journalist

Created in 2011, Sci-Hub is the largest free repository of scholarly articles in the world. Or rather, it is the largest shadow library of pirated... Read more

Looking up

Nelle Andrew Agent at RML

My son and I recently started reading this book called Look Up. It features a character called Jamal who is always looking down at his... Read more

Nevertheless, they persisted

By Philip Jones

Editor at The Bookseller

This week the Publishers Association released full-year sales numbers for 2020 showing that the invoiced value of UK publisher sales of books, journals and rights/coeditions... Read more