Writers are beefing over the future of publishing, and particularly over a new threat to their livelihoods posed by ebooks. Recently we heard that J K Rowling, Aravind Adiga and Ken Follett were up in arms because a San Francisco-based company was allowing free ebook downloads of their copyrighted novels from its website, scribd.com. Needless to say Ms Rowling got straight onto it and, like every other copyright holder before her, found the administrators of scribd.com to be extremely polite and helpful. Her books were immediately removed from the site – only to reappear there within a few days.

Literary Review

Oct 2009

Categories

Alexander Waugh

Whiffs of Wilde

The Book We Have Been Crying Out for

We Mean It, Ma’am

Where There’s a Will There’s a Waugh

Caught in the Spotlight

An Unusually Gifted Composer

Paperback Blighters

The Chippy Composer

Music And Madness

The Man Behind the Miracles

The Lady In Black

Nanny Knows Best

The Poisoned Chalice of Choice

The Adventures of Lady Satin Tights

How Weird was Wallis?

Ménage à Quatre

Spheres of Influence

Rites of Passage

Nightmare on Grub Street

A History of Helios

Prankster’s Progress

A Class Apart

Richer Sounds

The Pied Piper Effect