BookBrunch Special Reports

New for 2021, BookBrunch will be commissioning regular special reports to look at particular issues and areas of the book trade.

• 35 pioneering years at the Poetry Business

  Opinion - Publishing

  Creativity and change are key to any successful poetry publishing venture – just don't expect an easy life, as Tim Relf hears from the Poetry Business
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• The BookBrunch Report – Has 2020 levelled the playing field for independent publishers?

  News - Interviews

  Despite the obvious problems of publishing in a pandemic, the 'year like no other' has had some surprising benefits for Britain's smaller publishers
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• The BookBrunch Report: Has the pandemic altered pathways into publishing?

  News - Publishing

  Over recent years the book trade has come under increased scrutiny and pressure to be more accessible to publishing hopefuls. Now, and with Covid to contend with, what’s...
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• The BookBrunch Report: The Power of Self-Publishing

  News - Publishing

  Julie Vuong explores how big tech is muscling in on the market and why lockdown is luring authors to do it themselves
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• The BookBrunch Report: The fallout from Brexit

  News - International

  From troubles to trading to a potential cultural chasm - two months on from the UK’s departure from the EU, have the warnings over Brexit to the book trade been realised?...
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• A poetry moment

  News - Books

  More poetry is being read, written, published and shared than ever before - but what does this mean for the presses in the sector? Tim Relf reports
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• The BookBrunch Report: Are bookshops pandemic proof?

  News - Bookselling

  According to the latest figures from the BA, new bookshops are on the up for the fourth year in a row. But in these extraordinary times, who takes the plunge into...
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