Folks, it’s time to talk about blurbs. You know blurbs, the choice little quotations from other writers or public figures touting the excellence of the book you are considering purchasing. They are ...

Blurb, a self-publishing startup which specialises in illustrated books, is launching a new service to enable people to collaboratively create books. The new service is called Community Books and will ...

When book lovers grabbed William Kent Krueger’s early novels because of Lee Child’s praise on the cover — “Krueger hits the ...

LOS ANGELES — Blurb has established itself as the premier place online to make self-published books, making 8 million of them since opening for business in 2006, and selling them on its website and at ...

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Continuing to expand services that enable broader trade book distribution, Blurb, the POD self-publishing platform, announced a global print distribution partnership with Ingram. In addition to ...

Last year, the author Jeanette Winterson posted a photo on Twitter of her books being burned. Cancel culture? No — the person burning her books was Winterson herself. “Absolutely hated the cosy little ...

‘A blurb might bring a reader to a book, but then the book itself has to do the rest of the work.’ ‘It’s a sign of the growing insecurities...authors expect it as their right. A book can no longer ...

Like all self-respecting book nuts, I have long admired a good blurb, the hundred or so words on the back of a paperback that will make you either (i) buy it or (ii) cast it away into outer darkness ...