The corporate publishing model depends on publishers allocating most of their resources to a few books they expect to be high ...

Explosive. Searing. Volatile. That’s how Sean Manning felt about the prattle on every second book cover. Even those he’d ...

Publishers Weekly put out an article by Sean Manning – publisher of Simon & Schuster’s flagship US imprint – in which he said ...

On the higher slopes of Mount Olympus, blurbs are a way by which the gods speak to one another in code, with the whole world ...

It takes a lot of time to produce great books, and trying to get blurbs is not a good use of anyone’s time,” Manning writes in Publishers Weekly. Typically, the blurb proce ...

For the novelist Rebecca Makkai, writing blurbs had become nearly a full-time job. She explains why blurbs matter — and why ...

Manning argues that “trying to get blurbs is not a good use of anyone’s time”. He notes that a number of acclaimed titles in ...

Writers can do crazy things in quest of a blurb. When Norman Mailer finished his third novel, The Deer Park, he sent a copy ...

Simon & Schuster tells authors to stop soliciting endorsements. I think the practice is still worthwhile.

Using Blurb has allowed her to list the book on Amazon, which she has found from no other print-on-demand company that also ...

Simon & Schuster UK has told The Bookseller it will continue to expect British authors to procure blurbs for their work, despite its American counterpart saying it will “no longer require authors to ...

Book’s gung ho about life after the breakup All those authors who are living under a false name and buying fake moustaches can now come out of hiding. There’s a chance they may no ...