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Ebook sales down but SF and Fantasy booming

13 June 2016

Recent US figures released by Nielsen show that print sales are up and ebook sales down in the US. EbooksDigital bookstore selling wide range of ebooks in 50 categories from Hildegard of Bingen to How to Write a Dirty Story and showing how the range of ebooks available is growing.' share of the total market slipped from 27% in 2014 to 24% last year, although e-book consumption via smartphone grew from 7.6% in 2014 to 14.3% in 2015.  Read more

The battle of the classics

6 August 2007

What price the classics?

The battle of the classics has commenced! Random House and Penguin are going head-to-head this month with their classics relaunches, with little to distinguish between them in price and everything down to presentation.  Read more

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The Moth Short Story Prize 2025

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Closing date: 
30 June 2025
Entry: 
Open to all writers over 16. Entry fee €15 per story
Prize: 
1st prize €3,000, 2nd prize week-long writing retreat at Circle of Misse in France plus travel stipend, 3rd prize €1,000

The Moth Short Story Prize is an international prize, open to anyone from anywhere in the world, as long as their story is original and previously unpublished. The winners are chosen by a single judge each year, who reads the stories anonymously.

This year's judge is Evie Wyld.  Read more

'Storytelling is a form of resilience'

28 April 2025

‘Storytelling is a form of resilience. Think of Scheherazade - for 1001 nights, with every story, she survives, lives a little but longer in the face of authoritarianism or tyranny. Stories give us hope and connect us. Sometimes this tradition is looked down upon or belittled, but I think our superstitions are the projections of our deepest fears...  Read more

'Books are comforting, maybe especially when you're growing up, because reading a story that has a main character you can identify with, and - crucially - an ending you already know, is cathartic.'

— Gal Beckerman

7 April 2025 - What's new

April 2025
  • Poets ‘are the great people in literature because they manage to gather thought and feeling, and intellectual and emotional intensity into words in a way that I haven't done in my writing...
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