An announcement from Simon & Schuster’s publisher left the literary community wondering whether blurbs, the little snippets ...

Manning argues that “trying to get blurbs is not a good use of anyone’s time”. He notes that a number of acclaimed titles in ...

On the higher slopes of Mount Olympus, blurbs are a way by which the gods speak to each other in code, with the whole world ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Strolling through Dymocks with a friend recently, I spied a book with a rapturous blurb from The Australian on its cover. “A ...

As a major publisher stops forcing books to have author endorsements, is this the end of the road for the common cover ...

According to Levinovitz, the first example of an endorsement being ... Esq”, asking:“Who is he that could write so excellent a Book?” The word“blurb” was coined in 1907 as a derogatory ...

Vance wrote an “editorial review,” commonly known as a blurb, praising the book. It’s a small but fresh example of how ...

When all novels are thrust upon you as words of genius,’ wrote George Orwell, ‘it is quite natural to assume that all of them ...