Blogs

Coronavirus Outbreak: Behind the Headlines

By Jo Lushby

Co-Founder at Pixie B ltd

How China's book trade is coping with Covid-19 Read more

We need architects, not posters

By Jared Shurin

at M&C Saatchi’s Social Impact Practice

In the 1930s, legendary public relations counsel Edward Bernays was hired by a consortium of publishers. They asked him to help with the deceptively straightforward... Read more

Asian Booklist: my response to the exhausting diversity debate

By Kia Abdullah

Author and Founder at Asian Booklist

I don’t ever want to be pitted against Lionel Shriver because, frankly, I’m intimidated by her. Shriver is successful, wealthy and powerful and has that... Read more

Why small presses matter

By

As more and more authors potentially feel disenfranchised by the larger counterparts, or feel like they never had a shot in the first place, small... Read more

Public health advisory: hire a scout

Lucy Abrahams

With Bologna postponed, and the Paris, Leipzig and London book fairs cancelled, editors and agents are worried they’ll miss out on crucial deals this year.... Read more

Seven days later

By Philip Jones

Editor at The Bookseller

This time last week, when I asked someone at one of the bigger publishers whether they had called off their London Book Fair party yet,... Read more

Holding on to ideals

By Lennie Goodings

at Little Brown

Despite setting itself up under a somewhat traditional business model, Virago has managed to maintain its idealism in over 40 years of publishing Read more

The secret crisis of adult literacy

By Ginny Williams-Ellis

Chief Executive at Read Easy UK

Excitement is building in playgrounds across the country this week as World Book Day 2020 approaches, and children everywhere will be encouraged to celebrate books... Read more

We are the glorious counterbalance to this climate of hate

By Milly Johnson

Author at

“We are the glorious counterbalance to this climate of hate”: Milly Johnson accepts the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Romantic Novelists’ Association Read more

The Primadonna Prize - live!

Joanna Harris

Primadonna was set up in 2019 by 17 women from publishing and entertainment worlds – the Primadonnas – who wanted to give a platform to bestselling as... Read more

The personal touch

By Philip Jones

Editor at The Bookseller

If ever there were two words to strike fear into the hearts and minds of the trade in the run-up to the London Book Fair,... Read more

To tag or not to tag—when author feedback gets personal

Gillian Harvey

Would you walk up to an author at a book event, or on the street, and tell them how much you hated their book? No?... Read more

Indie US booksellers aren’t going down without a fight

By Kendra Stanton Lee

at

When Amazon accounts for at least 40% if not half of US book sales, independent bookstores in the US are looking to stay afloat using a... Read more

Publishers must change the story around neurodiversity

By Elle McNicoll

at Self-Employed

“Those people don’t read books, let alone write them.” These words were said to me as I sat in a meeting with some respected publishers. I... Read more

A modest proposal: take VAT off everything

By A. Non

Taking VAT off e-books will push even more customers to Amazon, with little benefit to other retailers: a better solution would be to abolish VAT... Read more