What can book marketers learn from Satanists?
Liam O'Brien
We at MobyLives have never been shy about asking the big question to which so many people already seem to know the answer: namely, are publishers bad at marketing? And… Read more »
We at MobyLives have never been shy about asking the big question to which so many people already seem to know the answer: namely, are publishers bad at marketing? And… Read more »
We are wample-cropped to hear the Dictionary of American Regional English may be discontinued in June. American dialect executive secretary Allan Metcalf calls this project “greatest American lexicographical project of the latter… Read more »
If you’re like me, which is to say an American, your entire conception of the British primary and secondary education system is probably from books, movies and television. And what… Read more »
It shouldn’t, but it does, come with a depressing regularity; a society suffers a terrorist attack, and with that terror comes a new enemy, to know, to form opinions on,… Read more »
Poets laureate are old news. Ireland has just announced its first fiction laureate. And, no brainer, it’s Anne Enright. Enright will take on this role for three years, earning a… Read more »
Last week we covered the removal of nature words from Oxford Junior Dictionary and Oxford University Press’s new policy regarding culturally sensitive subjects; discussing the week’s news yesterday, Alex Shephard… Read more »
A number of prominent writers have penned an open letter to Oxford University Press to express their unease after learning of longterm changes made to inclusions in the Oxford Junior… Read more »
Hacking! It’s the word of the moment. It happened to Sony. Australian torso Chris Hemsworth is playing a hacker in a new movie, Blackhat, which comes out this Friday. And yet,… Read more »
A new report issued by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) has revealed that almost 50 libraries were closed in Britain this year. The Bookseller reported the… Read more »
In October, Australian author Richard Flanagan was named the winner of the Man Booker Prize for fiction—recently expanded to include any novel written in English, beyond the former restriction that… Read more »