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Inflamed: Chris Flynn on Kindling Torpedo
For the inaugural Killings podcast, I spoke with Torpedo‘s editor, Chris Flynn. Torpedo 7 was released just this week – and it’s only available in non-paper form. Chris caused a stir in local...
View ArticleA paler world: book culture in a jiffy bag?
One of the most depressing days of my bookselling career came in late December of 2010, deep in the Christmas gift trade. It wasn’t that sales were lousy or the weather was extreme or any of the other...
View ArticleThe Sad Fate of the Second-hand Bookshop
The lead essay of Kill Your Darlings Issue Five, by Bookseller+Publisher editor-in-chief Matthia Dempsey, considers how online book buying is affecting brick-and-mortar bookshops. Here, Amy Roil casts...
View Article‘Business as usual!’ at The Book Depository
It seems not a week goes by without some important book retailing news going down in the UK: first came the announcement that James Daunt (the man responsible for the successful chain of London...
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Kill Your Darlings ebooks are just what your ereader was looking for
ebook users rejoice! All 2012 issues of Kill Your Darlings are available for purchase via Amazon, Booki.sh and KOBO. Need a refresher? Take a stroll through this year’s issues and see the brilliant...
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Third Wave Bookselling: Building a literary culture in the shadow of Amazon
Photo: goXunuReviews The best way to understand what bookselling is like right now is to understand what selling coffee was like in the late 90s. Back then, while Starbucks store launches were...
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Making and taking: striking a balance between consumption and creation
Writers at Work is a rich source of visual metaphors (pictured: Ernest Hemingway). Perhaps I’m just particularly neurotic, but whenever I’m writing I feel a niggling guilt that tells me I really should...
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Nepotism, bullying and stalking: When online reviews go bad
Iris Murdoch said, ‘A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.’ American young adult author Kathleen Hale may want to take heed of Murdoch’s wise words, or those of...
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