Spotify has said that it has paid audiobook publishers “tens of millions” since allowing users 15 hours of audiobook listening in its Premium subscription package last autumn. The company said that the... Read more »
How many books will you read before you die? Jan 25 2024 From The Economist:
“Our back-of-the-envelope calculations show how many books you can still hope to read—and how to make... Read more »
Virtually every song that Bruce Springsteen has ever written is now owned by Sony, which is reported to have paid five hundred and fifty million dollars for the catalogue. For Bellos, a... Read more »
From Michael Rosen’s joyous ode to chocolate cake to the sumptuous, soporific picnics in the Brambly Hedge series, delicious feasts abound in books for young children. For her moreish debut, Dim Sum... Read more »
The Diamond Dagger for lifetime contribution to crime writing has been awarded to two authors for the first time after judges “almost came to blows” this year. Lynda La Plante and James... Read more »
Kelly and Zach Weinersmith’s A City on Mars discusses what a space colony on that planet might look like. Science fiction authors, though, have been imagining life on the Red Planet... Read more »
Deprived children are being robbed of a lifetime of reading for pleasure, by governments that are “simply blind” to the benefits of loving literature from an early age, according to the author... Read more »
It all started with Brambly Hedge and those exquisite drawings of Mrs Apple’s kitchen at Crabtree Cottage: her shelves overflowing with homemade jams, woven baskets heaped with currants and rosehips, drying herbs... Read more »
“Citizen Darfour went to the House of Commons and presented a brief intended to destroy our institutions and upset the state …”—Le Télégraphe, gazette officielle extraordinaire, 1 September 1822 It is... Read more »