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March 2009
30 March 2009
Reading 'Can Help Reduce Stress'
"Reading is the best way to relax and even six minutes can be enough to reduce the stress levels by more than two-thirds, according to new research."
24 March 2009
Are Women Better Readers Than Men?
"Women know how to read properly, while men have a desultory and, at best, casual approach to books: this is the finding of a survey into the nation's literary habits."
The nation in question is the UK, but could it hold true for other nations, too?
17 March 2009
So You're Published - Now What?
Marketing. As this video amusingly illustrates, the hard work has only just begun.
13 March 2009
Star Rating
Thoughtful article on the effect of democratic reviews:
...we have all started to have the feeling that the star-ratings – the first thing you see, really, when you look up a book that you are thinking of buying – are actually far more influential than the reviews written by professionals in newspapers. Everyone in the publishing industry now agrees that newspaper reviews are less influential than they have ever been.
09 March 2009
Shakespeare and Company
One wonders how long bookshops like this can stay in business:
An interesting account by Jeanette Winterson in the Guardian of this bookshop and its history.
08 March 2009
Watch People Shop
The UK online bookseller, The Book Depository, has come up with a fascinating world map showing where its books are being bought in real-time. It shows the book cover and title and the country of each purchase.
07 March 2009
In Praise of the Sales Force
Interesting rumination on recent changes in publishing:
Hardly a day goes by that I don't get an e-mail from someone who's ready to reinvent publishing using the Internet, and the ideas are often good ones, but they lack a key element: a sales force. That is, a small army of motivated, personable, committed salespeople who are on a first-name basis with every single bookstore owner/buyer in the country, people who lay down a lot of shoe-leather as they slog from one shop to the next, clutching a case filled with advance reader copies, cover-flats, and catalogs.