Archive for August, 2008
Tall publishing tales
Friday, August 29th, 2008Anyone who is interested in the publishing scene will have taken note of the on-going squabble between internet retailer Amazon.co.uk, and the UK’s largest trade publisher Hachette UK. If you’ve missed it, in brief the story is as follows: Amazon.co.uk has asked Hachette to offer it more discount on the books it buys from the [...]
Evergreen books
Monday, August 4th, 2008Research carried out by Nielsen BookScan revealed twelve titles that have remained in their top 5,000 chart for every week since 1995 (The Bookseller, 1 August 2008). These evergreen titles have sold at least 100 copies a week in the UK in order to remain in the top 5,000.
Inside Inside Book Publishing
Monday, August 4th, 2008As the authors of Inside Book Publishing, we worked closely with our publisher, Routledge, and also with an external company that edited and designed the book. David Williams from The Running Head has written a piece about the process of turning our text into the finished pages, with the title ‘Inside Inside Book Publishing’. You [...]
