CONTRARY to popular opinion, book blurbing is not simply an insider’s game of back scratching and industry favors. What gives me the right to say so? Well, I’ve been sucked into this world of ...
Whatever the old adage might warn, there is a bit of merit to judging a book by its cover — if only in one respect. Consider the blurb, one of the most pervasive, longest-running — and, at times, ...
The publishing industry could look different in the future — the culprit: shifting thoughts toward book blurbs. If you have held a book before, most likely you have read or at least seen one. They ...
Like all self-respecting book nuts, I have long admired a good blurb, the hundred or so words on the back of a paperback that will make you either (i) buy it or (ii) cast it away into outer darkness ...
Stephen King, the novelist, wrote in Entertainment Weekly about blurbs. Updated March 7, 2012, 4:13 PM The late Robert Parker's advice was, "Never blurb a book you've read, and never read a book ...
Blurb, the fast-growing POD self-publishing platform, is expanding the services it offers, adding broader distribution through Amazon.com and introducing Blurb Bookwright, a new set of free online ...
Lots of attention has been paid to the way that digital media have shaken up the music, film and publishing industries. Now, the growing use of e-book readers and multi-purpose tablets is bringing ...
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