Publishing Industry & Book Trade

His admirers called him the Barnum of Books and the Voltaire of Kansas because of his ability to bring culture and education to the people. R. Alto...

When the sleepy English village of Green Bottom hosts its first literary festival, the good, the bad and the ugly of the book world descend upon it...

The essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the worldFor six decades the Penguin Modern Classics series has been an era-defining, ev...

As the story goes: Jeff Bezos left a lucrative job to start something new in Seattle only after a deeply affecting reading of Kazuo Ishiguro's Rema...

Manifestos by artists, authors, editors, publishers, designers, zinesters explore publishing as artistic practice. Independent publishing, art p...

Every book has a story of its own, a path leading from the initial idea that sparked it to its emergence into the world in published form. No two b...

These essays by Petra Christine Hardt, head of the rights department at esteemed German publisher Suhrkamp Verlag, offer unique and informed insigh...

In early 2009 a strange sort of business plan landed on the desk of a pinstriped bank manager. It had pictures of rats and moles in rowing boats an...

Mark Forsyth - author of the Sunday Times Number One bestseller The Etymologicon - reveals in this essay, specially commissioned for Independent Bo...

It has never been easier to self-publish your book but it is sometimes hard to know where to start. In A Simple Guide to Self-Publishing, publisher...

Requirements for professional media editing have undergone enormous technological change. Editors still edit copy. But today they do much more. ...

The years 18301914 witnessed a revolution in the manufacture and use of books as great as that in the fifteenth century. Using new technology in pr...