"For the further development of its publication strategy – combining digital and print publications with web-based content and other media"

"If the Penguin Random House deal is successful, the Justice Department argues that the resulting merged company would control close to half of the best-seller market, continuing a longer history of publisher acquisitions, mergers and _...Read More_

"In linear blogs, all we see is the published, finished version. We don’t see the work in progress, which hides some of the most valuable things about seeing people do knowledge work in public. If we’re allowed to put out tiny, unfinished _...Read More_

UK publishing’s total income reached a new high of £6.7bn in 2021

>"This year key prizes have gone to writers from Africa and the diaspora. Damon Galgut, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, Abdulrazak Gurnah and others explain what winning means to them"

"After 60 years of the series celebrating contemporary fiction, have the early jacket designs stood the test of time – and how do you create a cover fit for a classic?"

>"Many bestsellers of the last few years originated outside “traditional” publishing houses. But are influencers good for books?"

An extraordinary posthumous essay by the late Anthony Veasna So on music, the struggle to become a writer, and grieving the friend you shared so many dreams with when he turns away from the dream and takes his life.

“Absolutely hated the cosy little domestic blurbs on my new covers. Turned me into wimmins fiction of the worst kind! Nothing playful or strange or the ahead of time stuff that’s in there. So I set them on _...Read More_

The author of one of the year’s biggest books has been accused of sexual assault. Strangely, it was precisely his subject that exposed him to _...Read More_

Printed matter has the power to persuade, inform and propagate on behalf of subcultures that lack a voice in the mainstream press. _...Read More_

>"The Island of Happiness, by the French writer who coined the term ‘fairytales’, to include first English translation _...Read More_

It feels strange to present a list of highlights after such a tumultuous and strange year. As we, at Verso, struggled to comprehend the scale and tragedy of the global pandemic, we were also trying to work out if we still had a publishing _...Read More_

The Glass Ceiling Games is pitched as a "punk album you can play," and Wood describes it as "The Olympics meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer." "Each of the levels are symbolic of bigger cultural issues around gender pay gaps, parental leave _...Read More_