Blogs

Facing exhaustion

By Benedicte Page

Deputy Editor at The Bookseller

It’s hardly a catchy term, and discussion about it quickly becomes mired in impenetrable language, but the issue of “international rights exhaustion” should be at... Read more

The boy who lived and lived and lived

Jared Shurin Marketing strategist

In every skirmish in the ‘culture war’, be it fought in universities, Twitter or Parliament, there’s an inevitable reference to Harry Potter. The Potter references... Read more

A quiet revolution

Cath Howe Author and teacher

I write contemporary middle grade fiction for so-called “tweenies”- readers from top primary into early secondary school. I also work in schools each week teaching... Read more

Reminding, rethinking

Jamie Mollart Author

The pandemic is undoubtedly the most devastating public health crisis in living memory. Any discussion of what it has given rise to must first acknowledge... Read more

The anti-influencer

Lynsey Pollard Founder of Little Box of Books

I set up inclusive and representative children’s book company, Little Box of Books, almost three years ago and we have since enjoyed plenty of media... Read more

Reader's block

Emma Corfield-Walters Owner of Book-ish

One of the singular pleasures of becoming a bookseller was to make even more room for reading in my life, to talk books with anybody... Read more

Resisting the old normal

Penny Batchelor Author

Lockdown for many authors was a gruelling challenging time with loss of income, lack of literary inspiration and dealing with illness. For disabled and chronically... Read more

Publishers must help bookshops bounce back

Joseph Evans Head of tech at Enders Analysis

The pandemic altered where readers bought books and the types of titles they purchased—and it’s time publishers used their profits to help bookshops out.... Read more

A new equilibrium

By Benedicte Page

Deputy Editor at The Bookseller

The mass high street closures of the past 15 months have proved to have a major effect on what customers have bought and read, and... Read more

Red flags for authors

Anna Vaught Author

Are you a writer caught in a situation or about to make a decision on agency or publication, but beset by an uncomfortable feeling that... Read more

But what if I want to write about mangoes?

Pragya Agarwal Author

Here I am. Writing about mangoes, while eating a mango. I am a stereotype dream come true. “I try to avoid any mention of mangoes,... Read more

Living by the pen

Nicola Solomon Chief executive of the Society of Authors

Authors’ income, already a source of concern before the pandemic, has become unsustainable in the wake of financial policies put in place amid Covid... Read more

Citizen Dohle

By Philip Jones

Editor at The Bookseller

Late last year I wrote an online piece reflecting on Penguin Random House global c.e.o. Markus Dohle’s view that as “good citizens” the company’s likely... Read more

Blended learnings

Stephen Lotinga Chief executive of the Publishers Association

The advance of digital textbooks through lockdowns has meant a re-evaluation of the sector is long overdue, and it will require collaboration Read more

Calling time on comps

Eva Ferri Publisher at Europa Editions UK

It goes without saying that when agents, editors, publicists, marketeers and sales people have a book to get in the hands of readers, they use every means they... Read more