There's great concern about pirating of books and it's just been revealed by the UK online copyright infringement tracker survey that 17% of books read online have been pirated. Bestselling American fantasy author Maggie Stiefvater reports how her publishers reduced the print run of her next book because of the drop in sales caused by pirating. Read more
'I have no problem with chick lit. I love Bridget Jones's Diary, it's just great. It's all the muck in the middle I mind. I hate anything that's middle brow. Let us have art and let us have entertainment.'