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World Book Night? I’m out
I signed up for World Book Night as soon as I heard about it. I thought I’d give my copies of Half of a Yellow Sun to teenagers that, in their well-off, West End Glasgow lives, probably had no idea...
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Libraries – tap into community creativity!
‘Are libraries at all prepared for information without publishers?’ is a very interesting question posed in response to the HarperCollins library e-book lending furore. The publisher has decided to...
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Rights and wrongs of must reads
There are quite a few grumpy comments about the ‘Books everyone must read’ graphic created by Information is Beautiful and published on the Guardian’s Datablog. Apart from grumbling about the graphic...
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Ins and outs of context
Publishing – and consequently bookselling and libraries – is going through upheavals. Reading a piece about tackling problems for publishers, I was sidetracked by something on one of my favourite...
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Bookshare: library or club?
Sutton Council is keen to stress that its new Bookshare scheme is no substitute for its ‘wonderful library service’. Both the council and Adrian Short, the developer of the service, say that it is, on...
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Great new guides for muddy-boot lovers
handihike guide A rather nice little object (well three) is lying on my desk. It’s a new type of walking guide called Handihikes, and it’s only the size of those tiny pocket diaries we used to have....
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They don’t know what librarians do (yet again)…
The Guardian’s regressed a bit on its recent good record on library stories that show an understanding of what the profession really does. It lists librarians as under threat from new technology, along...
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Brevity lacks a soul
Professor of English Valerie Sanders writes in the THE about a question she’s been asking herself. If her students are going to pay three times as much for their university education, will they put up...
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Keeping reading on track
BBC Arts Editor Will Gompertz has been talking to Penguin Group Chief Executive John Makinson about the future of books. “I don’t expect that readers will open Jane Austen on page one and read through...
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Good at being good
We were talking about my friend’s book group round at hers the other day. She was grumbling about it. People keep bringing along new members, without permission. Once one got through, two others tried...
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