The story arc of Downton Abbey is really about one thing: order confronting chaos. Is the current state of contemporary publishing any different?
Will authors have the patience to wait for an agent or publisher to discover them? Or will they seek the immediate gratification of self-publishing?
With digitization offering authors new opportunities faster that publishers can take advantage of them, long book contracts grow increasingly unattractive.
'We don't have editors,' says Michael Fabiano, head of recently launched NBC Publishing, 'we have producers, and that's an important distinction.'
Publishers say book apps cost too much to produce. Of course they do, after all, they are publishing companies, not production companies.
The one thing a great comics book store must do -- unlike a bookstore -- is ensure you never forget your in a comic book store.
If e-readers offered haptic feedback for page turns, and audio cues coupled with physical feedback for a keyboard, it would change virtual reading and writing.
Is the cliché that 'editors no longer edit' overstated? Or does the job of shaping a book's text fall largely to the agent?
Today, Reed Exhibitions bought the Book Blogger Convention as a supplement to BookExpo America. Blog on, book lovers, blog on...
For a westerner, Moscow's bookstores can feel like returning to a lost world and, with a new Russian owner, Waterstones might benefit from their example.
