Simon & Schuster UK has told The Bookseller it will continue to expect British authors to procure blurbs for their work, despite its American counterpart saying it will “no longer require authors to ...

Writers can do crazy things in quest of a blurb. When Norman Mailer finished his third novel, The Deer Park, he sent a copy ...

Using Blurb has allowed her to list the book on ... To be fair, it seems price-competitive with some of the best coffee table ...

If you can read this book and not shriek with delight, your soul is dead.” According to George Orwell’s 1936 essay “In Defense of the Novel,” this declaration was part of a particularly egregious book ...

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

Absolutely riveting” and “compelling.” “A must-read” and “a tour de force.” Blurbs, those haiku-length endorsements on every ...

As far as anecdotes go, the blurb, that ubiquitous endorsement of literary merit on book covers, had a rather unpropitious beginning. In 1856, the second edition of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass bore ...