Blogs

From pledges to action

Laurel Brunner Managing director at Digital Dots

The Bookseller‘s recent Climate Issue (October 15th) successfully addressed the intertwined problem of commercial and environmental sustainability from a range of perspectives. This is vital... Read more

Yinka, what happened next?

Lizzie Damilola Blackburn Author

I’m staring at the blinking cursor at the top of the blank page. Sooo much has happened since my last column. Gosh, where do I... Read more

Where it happens

By Philip Jones

Editor at The Bookseller

Frankfurt 2021 will not go down as a vintage edition of the great trade show. But its comeback after last year’s curtailment marked a solid... Read more

No more pulp

Lizzie Norton Trustee at the Children's Book Project

With sustainability and green practices now top of the agenda for many companies, here at the Children’s Book Project (CBP) we are asking you as publishers to... Read more

Building bridges

Trevor Cox Professor of Acoustic Engineering at the University of Salford

How often do we hear an engineer’s voice in books? Roma Agrawal and her critically-acclaimed Built - The Hidden Stories Behind Our Structures (Bloomsbury Press), comes to... Read more

Copping in

Sherri Aldis, Chief of United Nations Publications in the Department of Global Communications, UN

Launched a year ago at the Frankfurt Book Fair by the UN and the IPA, the Sustainable Development Goals are essential tools for publishers to... Read more

That creeping feeling

Simon Ings

Fiction that lazily predicts a dystopian, ecologically decimated world is doomed to fail; instead novelists must engage on a new level with the climate crisis... Read more

Protecting stillness

Silé Edwards Agent at Mushens Entertainment

This month, I have been reflecting a lot on the kind of agent I want to be, the list I want to build and the... Read more

Closing the loop

Simon Mackay

In order to make a substantial lasting change to the sustainability of the trade, we must create a circular economy focused on book reuse and... Read more

Emission invisible

George Walkley

Received wisdom may suggest that digital books are a lower-emission option than print, but the truth is far more complex—and must be scrutinised... Read more

Outside the boxes

Jared Shurin

With consumers now insisting businesses do the heavy lifting for sustainability, this is the time for firms to really analyse their green credentials ... Read more

The Greta effect

Emily Marples

Those who market and publicise books on climate change for children can make a vast difference by keeping messaging positive—and by collaborating. Read more

Small minds: why a growth mindset is anathema to solving the climate crisis

Timothy Morton

The time for a business-as-usual approach to the climate has long since passed, argues author, academic and activist Timothy Morton, and urgent steps need to... Read more

The burning question

Molly Flatt and Caroline Sanderson

The climate emergency isn’t a terrifying future trajectory to be found in manifestos from tech magnates or the pages of cli-fi novels. It’s right here,... Read more