The UK reveals its 100 worst retailers and it’s not good news for books
Who doesn’t love a good survey? WHSmith, that’s who. They’ve just been named the worst retailer on the UK High Street. If you’re not British, you might not have heard… Read more »
Meet the hedge fund manager who’s going to blow up the publishing industry by paying authors half the, uh, profits on their books
Jonathan De Montfort has a totally crazy idea: what if you paid authors… wait for it… to write books? Insane, right? Maybe, but De Montfort, an Englishman who spent several years… Read more »
Don’t judge the Hay Festival by its tedious controversy-mongers
Another year at the Hay Festival, the UK’s annual “Woodstock of the mind,” another controversial lecture by a leading academic. Indeed, Germaine Greer has been at it again, this time attempting to redefine… Read more »
Of witchcraft, Jack the Ripper, the University of Nebraska, and three very late library books
Last month, we reported on a torn-up Soul on Ice returned to the San Francisco Public Library forty-seven years overdue. Forty-seven years is a long time. For a sense of scale, ask yourself just how dead… Read more »
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