Do soaring audiobook sales mean the physical book’s days are numbered?
The good news: audiobooks are doing well! Sales rose by 43% in the UK last year according to The Publishers Association (PA) Publishing Yearbook, and 37% in the US according… Read more »
Marian Keyes has (justifiably) taken agin the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize
More controversy has emerged from this year’s Hay Festival (which we reported on last week): during her talk, best-selling novelist Marian Keyes called out the organisers of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic literature.… Read more »
No phones, free whiskey and literature: the future of bookselling?
Last November, we wrote about the opening of a new bookshop in London, launched by Rohan Silva and Sam Aldenton, founders of Second Home, a “utopian workspace.” The shop, which is now… Read more »