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It came as an email, and the first glance and first reading sounded good.  An interest in "The Obedience of Fools," and invited  ...

It was a sequel to Jaws, the not entirely originally titled Jaws 2, but it had the tag "Just when you thought it was safe to go back in...

David Gaughran posted a piece about the current state of the publishing industry and its attitude towards books and publication. Read it, g...

The newbie author entering the world of writing and publishing must feel like the new kid who's just arrived at a new school half way t...

Every good story has a villain, the fouler and blacker the better, for a dramatic narrative, and the easier it is to identify the black hat...

"He wishes for the cloths of heaven" by W.B. Yeats describes how the plaintiff desiring to gift the glories and splendour of the s...

Amazon's much discussed letter to authors yesterday morning has received much comment for and against and probably been dissected mor...

I briefly touched on the labyrinthine links between vanity presses and the publishing houses dotted around the world and the Internet in  Co...

The Amazon-Hachette negotiation has occupied a lot of screen space over the last few weeks, pretty much since I started slotting a few bits ...

David Gaughran, author of "Let's Get Digital", on the question of discoverability and the reality of competition in the publis...

A lot of time and effort has been spent over the last week or so discussing the current discussions between Amazon and Hachette with a numb...

The basic question for any task, anything that is new and unknown, the knowledge of how to do it is critical, sounds pretty obvious, and it...