World of the Written Word

Still awaiting the big tick of approval from a US judge, Google's settlement with US authors and publishers over its book scanning sche...

The Government has decided to scale back the revamp of the National Library's Wellington building but will ensure the nation's treas...

Just two years ago, PORTFOLIO magazine was born in the midst of a business media boom. The idea of the parent company was to tap demand fro...

As we all know, the Pulitzers have been announced, and, as Publisher's Lunch remarks, it is interesting to follow the figures. Sales a...

It's official. In March 2009, the earliest known publisher's dust jacket was found in the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. ...

Jonathan Karp , of Twelve Publishing, makes much sense in an oped written for Publishers Weekly . After browsing bookstores and finding a pl...

Some time ago, I posted a piece a most intriguing book, Defying Empire, Trading with the Enemy in Colonial New York. This morning, I was del...

Joseph Sullivan , in his fine site, which is replete with comment and reviews of book designs , points out that Penguin is having fun playin...

April 12, 2009, is the 300th birthday of the founding of the original Tatler by Richard Steele , (pictured) and to mark the occasion, The O...

Back in 1917, when the world was perhaps a more credulous place, two young girls spread the story that they had been frolicking with fairies...