In a provocative essay, a major publisher announced that its authors will no longer be required to solicit glowing reviews ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Last week, Sean Manning, the publisher of Simon & Schuster’s flagship imprint, announced that it would no longer “require” authors to procure blurbs for their books. This news came just ...

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 ...

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 ...

That is because Simon & Schuster, an American publisher, has decided to stop doing book blurbs, those saccharine quotes from other authors on the back of books, at its flagship imprint.

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