The eclipse of the gilded 1980s generation can be seen as a welcome changing of the guard

A body that collects authors’ revenues is going off-book and asking about their gender

The book world is on its last legs. So how we can bring it back from the dead?

The bright young things of publishing want to be involved in every line of every new book

Literature is the only art in which, it seems, every neophyte is convinced they can succeed

Even Booker Prize-winning novelists struggle to make a living from writing

The “golden years” of publishing were characterised by booze, bullying and amateurishness

Few things are more tedious than books moralising about the deficiencies of yesteryear

With scant audiences and paltry remuneration, author’s tours can be far from glamorous

Publishing professionals often speak in code, but our man on the inside is a cryptographer