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BBC

Woman’s Hour  – With Kamila Shamsie on a year of publishing women only (first item)

BBC Radio Scotland  (2hrs 42 mins in) – Michael Rosen discusses the opening of The National Conversation

The Guardian

Authors slam lack of diversity in UK publishing

What do writers owe readers in the digital age?

Joanne Harris issues call for greater respect from readers

Will Self: ‘The fate of our literary culture is sealed’  

Kamila Shamsie: let’s have a year of publishing only women 

No Men Allowed: publisher accepts novelist’s ‘year of women’ challenge

Alison Flood reports on Kerry Hudson’s call for a ban on unpaid internships  

The Telegraph

Internet gives readers ‘false sense of entitlement’, Joanne Harris says

The Bookseller

Festival format hampers diversity, says McGregor 

Harris calls for ‘mutual respect’ between authors and readers

An extract of Kerry Hudson’s provocation on the state of publishing in Britain

Sarah Shaffi – Writers demand trade action on diversity  

Philip Gwyn Jones warns on ‘internecine’ book wars 

Shamsie calls for ‘Year of Publishing Women’

The year of women – Shamsie

Trade has mixed views on Shamsie’s Year of Publishing Women  

‘A Year of Men Self-Publishing’: #FutureChat recap 

Spectator

The Civil War for Books – Where is the money going? 

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