It's funny that with all the recent talk of book criticism having grown too nice, and reviews potentially being faked (or sometimes too mean), we haven't spent much time discussing the strange ...

“I'm asked to blurb FAR more books than I could actually read,” she told me (emphasis her own). “I want to be a supportive member of the writing community and I'm deeply grateful to everyone who's ...

Blurb is a new San Francisco company that allows people to create their own books on their desktops. Downloadable software aims to make it easy to merge text, graphics and photos and to design the ...

The publishing industry could look different in the future — the culprit: shifting thoughts toward book blurbs. If you have held a book before, most likely you have read or at least seen one. They ...