Links to this month's top stories
Our new feature links to interesting blogs or articles posted online, which will help keep you up to date with what's going on in the book world:
Man Booker 2014: more global, less diverse | Books | The Guardian
Self-publishing surging to 31% of ebook market, claims report | Books | theguardian.com
Poetry Matters | Academy of American Poets
The Millions : Americans Love Poetry, But Not Poetry Books
Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society Do the right thing Bookbarn International
Man Booker 2014: more global, less diverse | Books | The Guardian
Self-publishing surging to 31% of ebook market, claims report | Books | theguardian.com
Poetry Matters | Academy of American Poets
The Millions : Americans Love Poetry, But Not Poetry Books
Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society Do the right thing Bookbarn International
Does crime writing have a misogynistic heart? - Telegraph
Crying While Reading Through the Centuries : The New Yorker
David Mitchell tells Twitter story | The Bookseller
The Publishers Are as Bad as Amazon | Thomas Hauser
Okwiri Oduor Wins 15th Caine Prize for African Writing | Publishing Perspectives
What Does Your Brain Like Better: Paper or Ebooks? | Publishing Perspectives
Are African Writers Trumping African-American Authors? | Publishing Perspectives
BookBrunch - Is Amazon destroying publishing - and if so, does it matter?
McDermid: 'could not build writing career today' | The Bookseller
They might be giants | FutureBook
How To Become A Literary Agent | Marie Claire
BookBrunch - Putting poets first
Reading: The Struggle by Tim Parks | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books
BookBrunch - Shaping the twenty-first century writing life
Amazon is not your best friend: Why self-published authors should side with Hachette - Salon.com
Developing Markets Fuel Wattpad's Explosive Growth | Publishing Perspectives
6 Reasons Why English Writers Should Self-publish in Germany | Publishing Perspectives
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