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 of praise on a book jacket, are all they’re cracked up to be.

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 ...

Who finds blurbs effective? What is their utility? I think the practice has become so common that not engaging in it actually makes a book distinct. I would certainly be more intrigued if I came ...

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 ...

Searing. Volatile. That’s how Sean Manning felt about the prattle on every second book cover. Even those he’d published, where a novel looked naked without such blurb cliches as uproarious ...

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 are tripe.’ ...