Last Wednesday found your digital correspondent in Exeter, sitting in the garden of a German friend. He complimented me on the prose style of my second novel, Flashback – lovely – before dropping this bombshell: “Of course, there are…well, a few typos in the German phrases.” “Oh? Man with one ‘n’, that kind of thing?” [...]
Another interesting piece in The Guardian about self publishing (this is the term they’re applying to independent ebook publication) by Alison Flood. This caught my eye: “Publishing has always been a quasi-monopoly built on the lock publishers had on paper distribution. Digital distribution has broken that lock, but legacy publishers are still behaving as though [...]
Scott Pack replies to a Guardian piece by Stuart Jeffries that (according to Scott; I haven’t read it) is another ‘why can’t bookshops be like the old days’ article. Among other things, Scott writes: Less than a decade ago it would have been possible to walk into a branch of Waterstone’s, especially some of the [...]