Reading Copy Book Blog

I found this story mildly amusing this morning. Encyclopedia Britannica is inviting readers to contribute and edit entries on a new section of its website on order to challenge the domination of Wikipedia. Hmmm… let’s see – Wikipedia was launched in January 2001 and has 12 million articles. God knows how many millions of people [...]

Philip Hensher writes in today’s Independent about book titles and how certain titles are recycled. He’s not kidding! There are times when I’m researching something on AbeBooks.com and I will search for a book and be presented with countless results from various authors who all used the identical book title. Philip writes recycling book names [...]

I’ve heard of a singer being discovered from a video posted on YouTube and now the literary equivalent has occurred.  Stuart Neville, a writer from Northern Ireland has signed a major book deal after a New York literary agent happened upon his work online. In fact, Neville has a deal for two books and his [...]