‘What we publish will stay with you’: inside a small but mighty literary hit factory (www.theguardian.com)
Archived version: archive.ph/eK1Rx...
Just in case anyone is interested, Humble Bundle has a Tad Williams bundle containing 21 ebooks for $18. The offer ends in about 1.5 days. (www.humblebundle.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/3365555...
FantasticFiction - A Website that allows you to sign up and follow your favourite authors, get notifications etc (www.fantasticfiction.com)
Don’t know if people know of this site or not but just in case you don’t, it’s pretty damn good. All they require is an email address (I used an anon one with no issues). You can follow up to 100 authors and get alerts when new stuff is announced and published....
Found in a library book (oaklandlibrary.org)
Things found in library books.
TikTok is changing the way books are recommended and sold (www.economist.com)
The Booker Prize 2023 longlist (thebookerprizes.com)
The longlist has been announced! It features work from four continents, four Irish writers, four debut novelists – and ten authors who are recognised by the Booker Prize for the first time...
‘I wanted to be No 1. But a certain JK Rowling came along’: Jacqueline Wilson on rivalry, censorship – and love (www.theguardian.com)
Archived version: archive.ph/HSmIX...
The Emptiness Of Literature Written For The Market (www.noemamag.com)
Second Chapter of System Collapse by Martha Wells (www.tor.com)
Publishing a copy-lefted book (sh.itjust.works)
I’m planning to publish a book in the following months, but I’m not entirely sure if the procedure is the same for both copyrighted and copy-lefted books. If you hadn’t guessed, I’m publishing one with the latter license (i.e. Creative Commons). I’m planning on using Lulu.com for this first book, but I was wondering if...
‘Times change’: what authors think about rewriting older books (www.theguardian.com)
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Plato’s Republic: Critical Thinking, Moral Education, and Citizenship (a.co)
Plato's Republic: Navigating Critical Thinking, Moral Education, and Citizenship in the 21st Century" is not just a book; it's a beacon of hope in a society that often loses sight of reason, knowledge, and justice.
Full-Text Search in the Largest Online Libraries, Open Access to Them, and AI Operating Their Data (lemm.ee)
In 2023, several largest online libraries have simultaneously started to introduce search through the entire text of all books in their collections, going beyond just titles, descriptions, and book metadata....
Books That Should Be Friends: 5 Perfect Book Pairings (bookriot.com)
This got me wondering - do you pair up books like this?
Novels from Canada, Ireland, US, UK finalists for Booker Prize for fiction (www.aljazeera.com)
Novels from Canada, Ireland, the United States, and the United Kingdom that explore families, communities and a world in crisis make up the six finalists for the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction....
Jacqueline Wilson says rewriting children’s books can be justified (www.theguardian.com)
Archived version: archive.ph/WYdpt...
Currowan: a Story of Fire and a Community During Australia's Worst Summer (slrpnk.net)
Currowan: a Story of Fire and a Community During Australia’s Worst Summer...
One Can Scarcely Help Clarifying Him: On Fyodor Dostoevsky’s "The Brothers Karamazov" By Michael R. Katz (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
Readers' Most Anticipated Books of October (www.goodreads.com)
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/742102...
Tears of blood: A book about grief, horror, war, and immigration (play.google.com)
I hope this is allowed here, if not, feel free to remove my post, mods...
Shame - Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie - 1983 (pdfhost.io)
cross-posted from: kbin.social/m/13thFloor/t/452228...
What is Zionism? (www.peoplesworld.org)
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/1009590...
On The Road - Jack Kerouac - 1957 (pdfhost.io)
cross-posted from: kbin.social/m/13thFloor/t/413449...
Readers' Top 66 Horror Novels of the Past Three Years (www.goodreads.com)
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/742101...
The Tea Table By Sara Lippincott (www.edge.org)
SARA LIPPINCOTT (1938-2023) was an editor specializing in nonfiction who edited some eighty books about science for the general public including bestsellers such as Bill Bradley’s Time Present, Time Past, Timothy Ferris’s The Whole Shebang, Lee Smolin’s The Trouble with Physics, and John McPhee’s Pulitzer prize-winning...