5 questions for Ben Goddard of Little, Brown about metadata [INTERVIEW]
In an ambitious attempt to target those fuzzier (and I don’t mean cuddly) sides of publishing, this week Ben Goddard, Business Manager for Digital at Little, Brown, talks us through metadata and why...
View ArticleDid you hear JK Rowling has a book out today? No, really!
In news that has gone so far from the definition of ‘news’ that it has circled back round upon itself to become newsworthy again, today sees the publication of JK Rowling’s first post-Harry Potter...
View ArticleDonna Tartt’s third novel due in October
In the latest example of the strange, mystical power already exhibited by 2013 to draw maddeningly non-prolific artists out of hiding – following on from My Bloody Valentine’s twenty-two-years-later...
View ArticleToday in Rowling: PS3 Pottermore, Casual Vacancy paperback
Though the combination of the two hasn’t always been well received in the past, Sony’s video gaming arm has announced its latest attempt at porting the world of Harry Potter to the Playstation: the...
View Article‘New’ J.D. Salinger work apparently forthcoming
Next month brings with it an onslaught of J.D. Salinger-related paraphernalia, with a new biography and associated documentary on the late author both due for release, for anyone who really wants to...
View ArticleBook of Iain Banks poetry to be published in 2015
When Iain Banks died of cancer last June at the cruelly young age of 59, it was widely assumed that The Quarry – the novel whose first reviews started to appear on the day of his death – would be his...
View ArticleDavid Foster Wallace’s family does not support upcoming film
Last month the first pictures emerged of Jason Segel in costume as the late, celebrated American author David Foster Wallace in the upcoming film End of the Road, based on David Lipsky’s 2010 book...
View ArticleLittle, Brown and Blackwell’s top Bookseller Industry Awards
The Bookseller Industry Awards took place last night in London, with a crowded field of winners led by Blackwell’s, named Book Retailer of the Year, and Little, Brown, who took home the evening’s...
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