September 29, 2016

On 8th October, The Booksellers Association of the UK and Ireland is holding its first National Bookshop Day, with around 2,000 bookshops participating. What awaits book lovers on this inaugural day?… Read more »

Authors

Salman Rushdie, Ian Rankin and Joanne Harris amongst those recognised in the Queen’s birthday honours list — Nikki Griffiths
Joanne Harris suggests some "parents, largely fathers" perceive reading as "girly" — Tom Clayton
Waterstones appeal aims to raise £1m for Ukraine disaster fund — Tom Clayton
Returning an ebook after reading: is Amazon's return policy damaging to authors and publishers? — Nikki Griffiths

Here’s how you pull off a multimillion-dollar e-book scam

Liam O’Brien

The secret to getting rich in the bookselling business is to sell lots of books. Big house publishing and most bookstores rely on gargantuan sales from a handful of tentpole… Read more »

Italian judge metes out justice with feminist reading list

Taylor Sperry

In Rome, a thirty-five-year-old man who was convicted of paying an underage girl for sex has been ordered to buy thirty feminist books… for the girl to read. Rachael Pells reports… Read more »

If this local library had a surplus of money, this Florida resident would probably know to follow it

Chad Felix

Clinton Cash, Peter Schweizer’s 2015 investigation into the Clinton Foundation, is generally considered to be a pretty good hit job. Given its author’s day job as senior editor-at-large for alt-right… Read more »

Melville House Books

Go bookshops, go! The first National Bookshop Day is coming to the UK…

Nikki Griffiths