Author RSSShakespeare mystery tops Spring list
IN a book jungle that is overrun by vampires, wizards and cosmic weirdos, Shakespeare still prevails. The Bard tops the Spring list as most popular novel in the early 2010 catalogue at Darling Newspaper Press.
“Response to our Internet launch was overw...
Brat versus Raj is jewel in Amazon crown
WOW! It's gotta be good when Amazon, the discount king, lists a fiction title at $54. The book in question is Wee Charlie's World by Bryce McBryce. Seems that the brat who is the bane of the British Raj has become rare and valuable literature. Are good hu...
Books to bulge Christmas stockings
Publishers and booksellers are off at a sprint for Christmas, striving for a place up front, if not actually first, in the till tally.
Top seller for this year’s final quarter, says Booktaste, is obviously going to be Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol. Thi...
Corrosive humour scuttles British myths
Cathy Macleod at www.booktaste.com, 1 July 2009. Like many others, I use and love the English language. Today it is the world language, predominant in science, trade and politics. And maybe it always was predominant. At least in Europe.
This mind-blowing...
Who’s reading efiction?
IN the vast sea of digital fiction, one recently voiced trade perception is that there are more authors than there are readers. Whoopee for readers! The choice of titles has never been greater, yet are these books worth reading?
As an avid reader, I welc...
Why pay? That is the question
Cathy Macleod, 18 Feb, 2009: To free or not to free, as the bard would have written. Aye, there’s the point! Publishers worldwide are wrestling desperately with the notion that they should free their creations from the chains of a coverprice.
It is j...
Obama Tells Me All
by Cathy Macleod, 29 January 2009
I met Barack Obama on my back verandah early morning, while sitting with a pot of tea at my elbow and honeybirds crooning. Such is the start to my day in the southern hemisphere.
The President was a few thousand mil...
Happy readers surf The Great Book Flood
Cathy Macleod, January 2009:
One could write a book, and somebody probably will, about the pain and drama unfolding now in the book world. The question is would anyone read it?
The answer is yes, yes, a million times yes! There will always be book reade...
Happy readers surf The Great Book Flood
Cathy Macleod, January 2009:
One could write a book, and somebody probably will, about the pain and drama unfolding now in the book world. The question is would anyone read it?
The answer is yes, yes, a million times yes! There will always be book reade...
Happy Reading Was Never Easier Than Now
says Cathy Macleod.
Tralala, it has got me going lyrical . . .
Surging, flooding, books galore, sweeping over Reading's shore. Where to dip and find a winner? How to tell a saint from sinner? Easy done, I promise you - here is all you have to do: Brow...
Fiction heavyweights go digital
by Cathy Macleod.
Agatha Christie, Fay Weldon and Ann Morven have all embraced electronic publication as the ebook revolution gushes into the new year of 2009.
For evergreen Christie characters, such as Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot, it entails a ref...
Digital sparkle brightens Christmas gloom
Helping bookstore earnings over Christmas 2008 is an exciting first-time phenomenon:
All the major chains are selling a new kind of book gift. It is not printed, it is an Electronic Reader.
The last two weeks of November saw a surge in their sales, and...
Learn how to love an ebook
says Cathy Macleod
THAT painful prospect, the reading of ebooks, is something we shall all have to do sooner or later. There is no escape, it is the future of reading. For some of us it is pretty much the present, but not for me, not yet. Nevertheless, I...
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