Helen Sedwik from THE BOOK DESIGNER shares with authors the legalities of publishing a book of quotations they find inspirational, educational, or just plain funny. Their motives are laudable, but is it legal?
Author and Booktrust web editor Nikesh Shukla tells us how he balances a dayjob and writing, all thanks to technology.
JOE WIKERT’S DIGITAL CONTENT STRATEGIES When was the last time you used an index in an ebook? Maybe the better question is this: Have you ever used an index in an ebook? One of the challenges here is that most ebooks don’t have indexes, the result of the misguided notion that text search is a […]
JOANNA PENN || THE CREATIVE PENN || SEPT. 2015 I live in central London and every time I travel on the Tube, I see people reading … with headphones plugged in. They are listening to music at the same time as reading. My husband does it at home as well, usually to block out the […]
TERRY WHALIN || THE WRITING LIFE || SEPT. 2015 I’ve always found a deadline helps me get into my chair and get my fingers moving on the keyboard toward the completion of a writing project. In the newspaper business, the deadlines come fast and furious. I would write a story in the morning and it […]