http://www.a1articles.com en-us editorial@articlealley.com by Cathy Macleod, week ending 8 April 2011. MAGIC fascinates the real world, even in this Age of scientific wonders. I saw the proof of its power when newspaper editors pounced on a recent legal trial between two authors. It was a miracle of publicity, f... http://www.a1articles.com/magic-fuels-the-fame-game-2167026.html 05th April 2011 Cathy Macleod's Booktaste Blog. SEX sells. We all know this. Ever since Adam and Eve donned figleafs the world has relished a risqué read. And once again comes the proof, with British newspapers and magazines revelling in muck that's 200 years old. Even... http://www.a1articles.com/how-to-get-a-book-noticed-2070904.html 25th February 2011 by Cathy Macleod at www.booktaste.com, week ending 4 Feb 2011. BOOK BURNING is something no democratic government would ever contemplate, yet Britain’s situation is equally severe: closure of public libraries. This weekend (Feb 5) readers throughout the ... http://www.a1articles.com/born-in-britain-a-rebellion-of-readers-2036621.html 16th February 2011 IN a book jungle that is overrun by vampires, wizards and cosmic weirdos, Shakespeare still prevails. The Bard tops the Spring list as most popular novel in the early 2010 catalogue at Darling Newspaper Press. "Response to our Internet launch was overwhe... http://www.a1articles.com/shakespeare-mystery-tops-spring-list-1421503.html 01st March 2010 WOW! It's gotta be good when Amazon, the discount king, lists a fiction title at $54. The book in question is Wee Charlie's World by Bryce McBryce. Seems that the brat who is the bane of the British Raj has become rare and valuable literature. Are good hu... http://www.a1articles.com/brat-versus-raj-is-jewel-in-amazon-crown-1194511.html 22nd October 2009 Publishers and booksellers are off at a sprint for Christmas, striving for a place up front, if not actually first, in the till tally. Top seller for this year's final quarter, says Booktaste, is obviously going to be Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol. This th... http://www.a1articles.com/books-to-bulge-christmas-stockings-1173858.html 15th October 2009 Cathy Macleod at www.booktaste.com, 1 July 2009. Like many others, I use and love the English language. Today it is the world language, predominant in science, trade and politics. And maybe it always was predominant. At least in Europe. This mind-blowing... http://www.a1articles.com/corrosive-humour-scuttles-british-myths-958097.html 30th June 2009 IN the vast sea of digital fiction, one recently voiced trade perception is that there are more authors than there are readers. Whoopee for readers! The choice of titles has never been greater, yet are these books worth reading? As an avid reader, I welc... http://www.a1articles.com/whos-reading-efiction-872967.html 29th April 2009 Cathy Macleod, 18 Feb, 2009: To free or not to free, as the bard would have written. Aye, there's the point! Publishers worldwide are wrestling desperately with the notion that they should free their creations from the chains of a coverprice. It is jus... http://www.a1articles.com/why-pay-that-is-the-question-796300.html 24th February 2009 by Cathy Macleod, 29 January 2009 I met Barack Obama on my back verandah early morning, while sitting with a pot of tea at my elbow and honeybirds crooning. Such is the start to my day in the southern hemisphere. The President was a few thousand mil... http://www.a1articles.com/obama-tells-me-all-773607.html 31st January 2009 Cathy Macleod, January 2009:One could write a book, and somebody probably will, about the pain and drama unfolding now in the book world. The question is would anyone read it?The answer is yes, yes, a million times yes! There will always be book readers, ... http://www.a1articles.com/happy-readers-surf--the-great-book-flood-765659.html 22nd January 2009 says Cathy Macleod.Tralala, it has got me going lyrical . . .Surging, flooding, books galore, sweeping over Reading's shore. Where to dip and find a winner? How to tell a saint from sinner? Easy done, I promise you - here is all you have to do: Browse the... http://www.a1articles.com/happy-reading-was-never-easier-than-now-752173.html 13th January 2009 by Cathy Macleod. Agatha Christie, Fay Weldon and Ann Morven have all embraced electronic publication as the ebook revolution gushes into the new year of 2009. For evergreen Christie characters, such as Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot, it entails a ref... http://www.a1articles.com/fiction-heavyweights-go-digital-751344.html 12th January 2009 Helping bookstore earnings over Christmas 2008 is an exciting first-time phenomenon: All the major chains are selling a new kind of book gift. It is not printed, it is an Electronic Reader. The last two weeks of November saw a surge in their sales, and... http://www.a1articles.com/digital-sparkle-brightens-christmas-gloom-714843.html 08th December 2008