Enchanting. Mysterious. Riveting. Book blurbs have been a mainstay in publishing, designed to persuade readers to pick up a ...

Grady spoke with “Marketplace” host Kai Ryssdal about why blurbs have become a flashpoint. The following is an edited transcript of their conversation. Kai Ryssdal: For those unfamiliar with ...

For the past few months, publishing has been consumed with debate over that ever-divisive topic: blurbs, those breathless little testimonials from other writers that appear on the back of a book ...

As an author, I loathe asking for blurbs — most of us hate the cringe-making business of approaching your peers for a favour that eats into their precious writing hours — and sometimes struggle to ...

Will blurbs on book covers become a thing of the past? US publishing house Simon & Schuster is going to give it a try. Executive editor Sean Manning has laid out plans for the publisher to stop ...

With a major Simon & Schuster imprint ditching this practice, the end of arm-twisted blurbs may be nigh. Some say this will usher in a new era of organic word-of-mouth reccos; others suspect a ...

Sean Manning, an executive editor at Simon & Schuster, recently raised the proverbial tempest in the publishing tea cup by declaring that he will no longer require his authors to go begging for blurbs ...