Jane Davis, author of Half-Truths and White Lies
We continue our discussion with Jane Davis whose new book Half-truths and White Lies has won the Daily Mail’s First Novel Award. How do you leave your “proper” …
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Thai Boxed In
Should you ever write for free? And are some authors editor-proof? Today Peter takes a break from Scribd-bashing to answer some questions… but never fear, we’ll be back on the pirate’s case again tomorrow.
In today’s …
Copyright Wars
We continue to explore the vital issue of authors’ copyright in today’s show: Peter looks back to the 19th century “copyright wars” – how authors’ lost control over their hard work (and the income it …
Beautiful Words
More revealing background information today from Peter about the smart new website Scribd that allows people to upload and download pirate copies of books, thus depriving authors and publishers of their legitimate income.
In today’s Write …
Copyright Theft Central
Today, Peter follows up on the major story we broke on Friday’s LITOPIA AFTER DARK – the website Scribd is a repository for stolen books: a “Pirate Bay” of the publishing business. Of the top …
Harry Potter and the Copyright Pirate
Scribd happily ripping off JK Rowling
This week’s announcement that owners of the Sony eReader will soon be able to access half a million out-of-copyright books, courtesy of Google BookScan, may not immediately seem like earth-shaking …
Unashamed Mug Plug
The (In)Famous Litopia Mug – click on the picture to buy one!
Today, Peter and Peggy Brusseau turn into mugs. Really.
In today’s Write Report, Donna reports on the winning entry for the Play.com’s contest to create …
Cottage Gardens & Wombat Poo
A wombat producing your next manuscript
On World Book Day, we learn some lessons from a cottage garden – that’s the theme of today’s conversation between Peter, Peggy Brusseau and Brian Clegg, author of the newly-published …
As Good As Tolstoy
We continue our new year list of once-in-a-lifetime “must-read” books, as recommended by John Simopoulos, Dean of Degrees at St Catherine’s College, Oxford. Today’s featured work is a South American trilogy by Louis …
Kindle Porn
Finally, the Kindle may have found its market: but perhaps not quite what Amazon expected – it may just be the the new must-have accessory for pornophiles. That is, if a recent thread on FriendFeed …
The Influence of Writers
On Litopia After Dark this week we are delighted to welcome as our special guest Martin Toseland, former publisher at both Penguin and HarperCollins, and now an author himself. Martin’s book A Steroid Hit The …
Corporate Publishing is Doomed
In the week when the world’s financial industries appeared to go into meltdown, Litopia After Dark zeroes in on the impact this will have on the publishing industry.
What effect will the credit crunch and looming …
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