Race to relay the Oscar Pistorius story
- 19 Apr 2013 00:00 - Darryl Accone
- It’s a race that fits the Blade Runner playbook: five authors working on three “definitive accounts” all hurtling towards one deadline.
Bibliophile for all seasons
- 05 Apr 2013 00:00 - Percy Zvomuya
- Bronwyn Law-Viljoen does not shy away from the manifold challenges of publishing and running a bookshop.
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From South Asia with love
- 15 Feb 2013 00:00 - Donna Bryson
- An new website is making romance stories from the region accessible to a diaspora across the world.
Finding the sweet taste of writing freedom
- 09 Nov 2012 00:51 - Sean O’Toole
- South African-based author Sarah Lotz was scraping by before a British publishing house offered her a six-figure deal.
Supermerger sparks concern
- 02 Nov 2012 16:39 - Dan Sabbagh
- "Fear of Amazon" may not yet be a phrase in the dictionary, but it is the sentiment that underlies the merger between Random House and Penguin.
Africa's a bit of all write
- 27 Oct 2012 13:06 - Sean O’Toole
- The continent was not portrayed as sexy at the Frankfurt Book Fair, but at least it led to sales.
Print a book in espresso time
- 14 Sep 2012 11:01 - Scott Smith
- It looks like a large, clumsy, see-through photocopier, which is sort of what it is. But it is a thousand times more powerful.
Surf the global tide in language and survive
- 24 Aug 2012 00:57 - Craig MacKenzie
- The marginalisation of local languages will continue and nonstandard English is the future to embrace.
Braille books see the light
- 24 Aug 2012 00:35 - Peter White
- Historically, only a tiny proportion of published books have made it into Braille. But technology now means no book is off limits, writes Peter White
Writers grapple over the exit of an editor of note
- 17 Aug 2012 00:25 - Sean O’Toole
- Many in the publishing industry are wondering: Was Penguin's Alison Lowry pushed --- or did she jump?
Pirates of the Peruvian
- 05 Jul 2012 10:34 - Percy Zvomuya
- Percy Zvomuya interrogates the phenomenon of book piracy in Peru, and wonders if the high cost of books in SA could lead to a similar situation here.
E-books in France a non!starter
- 02 Jul 2012 10:07 - Angelique Chrisafis
- Reading habits were back on the political agenda in France this week when Hollande's government, vowing to protect the printed word.
Is this the end of the bookshop, or just a new chapter?
- 15 Jun 2012 00:50 - Tanya Pampalone
- Bookstores around the world have been shutting their doors in the face of what looks a lot like publishing Armageddon. What's a bibliophile to do?
King of horror returns to old-school publishing
- 08 Jun 2012 00:01 - Alison Flood
- Stephen King's digital publication of "Riding the Bullet" in 2000 made him one of the pioneers of the e-book movement.
