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Written by Nicholas Clee   
Celebrities such as Kimberly Quinn, who once might have taken up charitable causes, now try to wash away their pasts by writing children's books. (Amanda Craig, Times)

After six months with an e-reader, I've come to prefer the ebook experience. (Wired)

Maud Newton quotes an extract from Martin Stannard's biography of Muriel Spark. In 1999, Spark told Janice Galloway: "I used to be sold the idea that what I was writing was some little cult and people wouldn’t buy the things. Publishers used to go on that way until I just got rid of them." (She had recently moved from Constable to Viking; before that, she had moved to Constable from the Bodley Head.)
 
Wolf Hall, digitally enhanced
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Written by Nicholas Clee   
An enhanced ebook app of Hilary Mantel's Man Booker-winning novel Wolf Hall (Fourth Estate) is now available on the APP store.
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South Africa: Bursting the bubble
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Written by Mark Searle   


Mark Searle files the fifth of a series of reports from the UKYPE finalists' tour to South Africa

Any preconceptions the six of us young entrepreneurial publishing types may have had about the South African publishing market took an early dent in our first meeting of the week, with UKTI. We were told that, despite improving literacy levels, less than 12% of the population bought more than three books a year. A theme that emerged in our meetings with publishers and booksellers was that the market currently served is not the 44m population, but a small section of the elite estimated to consist of about 800,000 readers (or half the adult population of New Zealand). What digital publishing entrepreneur (and IYPE 09 finalist) Arthur Attwell called "the bubble".
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Sir Michael Lyons to Tindal Street
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Written by Nicholas Clee   
Tindal Street Press, the Birmingham-based independent, has acquired a heavyweight new Chairman, Sir Michael Lyons, who is also Chairman of the BBC Trust.
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SBC's Holmes among 50 Women to Watch
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Written by Liz Thomson   
Rachel Holmes (left), Head of Literature and Spoken Word at London's Southbank Centre, is among the inaugural list of "50 Women to Watch" unveiled today by the Cultural Leadership Programme (CLP). The roll of honour features leaders, directors, producers and curators from across the UK, celebrating women who are making a significant contribution to the nation's cultural life, and who have the potential to rise to the very top, leading the way in design, libraries, literature, museums, heritage, music, performing and visual arts, the historic environment and creative businesses, and redressing the gender balance at senior leadership levels in the cultural and creative sector.
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