If you've ever wanted to read at work whilst looking as if you're hard at it, this joky site will enable to work your way through some poetry, short stories and classics, heavily disguised as inofffensive Powerpoint presentations. www.readatwork.com
Interesting UK site which provides mechanism for arranging to swap books you no longer want with other members of the site. 363087 books available on last visit. http://www.readitswapit.co.uk/TheLibrary.aspx
A new means of international book exchange facilitated by the web. Participants create an inventory of what they have and a wish list of what they are looking for. Enables people from 130 countries to liberate books into the world, showing the strength of the urge to share. Let your books go - and they will find new homes...
Innovative online cataloguing site, which has already catalogued 17 million books. It lets you catalogue all the books you own and use tags to organize your own collection. Book world has called it: "one of the Seven Wonders of the Web" http://www.librarything.com/buzz
A survey of 787 members of the Society of Authors (SoA) has found that a third of translators and a quarter of illustrators have lost work to generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems. Translators are also more likely to use AI to support their work, with 37% of respondents saying they have done so, followed by 25% of non-fiction writers.
The author Lynne Reid Banks, known for her novel The L-Shaped Room and her children's book series The Indian in the Cupboard, has died at the age of 94.
I launched my podcast Making It Up nearly three years ago with the goal of interviewing writers not for any particular work of theirs, but to talk to them about their lives. I didn't want to ask them what famous author they want to have dinner with or what their top five favorite books are ... yech. Read more
Until we have a mechanism to test for artificial intelligence, writers need a tool to maintain trust in their work. So I decided to be completely open with my readers
Horror is experiencing a literary boom with a record-breaking year of sales, as editors and agents reveal a rise in submissions from the scarier side of fiction.
'The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. 'tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.'