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. By Elisabeth ...

The publishing industry could look different in the future — the culprit: shifting thoughts toward book blurbs. If you have held a book before, most likely you have read or at least seen one. They ...

You’re not the first to question this practice. What prompted the change? One thing I set out to do as publisher at S&S was ask questions. Who finds blurbs effective? What is their utility? I think ...

It is rare to see a newly published book that doesn’t come with a ringing endorsement from at least one or two familiar names. Well known authors will laud a new title as “brilliant”, “moving” or ...