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A blurb on a book can be any combination of quotes from the work, the author, the publisher, reviews or fans, a summary of the plot, a biography of the author or simply claims about the importance of the work. In the 1980s, Spy ran a regular feature called "Logrolling in Our Time" which exposed writers who wrote blurbs for one another's books. [3]
The word "blurb", meaning a short description of a book, film, or other product written for promotional purposes, was coined by Burgess in 1906, in attributing the dust jacket of his book, Are You a Bromide?, to a "Miss Belinda Blurb" depicted "in the act of blurbing". His definition of "blurb" is "a flamboyant advertisement; an inspired ...
The deal allows Blurb-designed books to be sold and distributed on the Amazon platform. The partnership enables self publishing on the platform with a 15% cut on Blurb books. [5] Amazon agreed to the fee to access Blurb's authors. In May 2014 Blurb acquired MagCloud, [6] a self-publishing platform for magazines, under a licensing agreement from ...
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His blurb is used in some editions of the book, such as the US paperback edition. [8] In 2010, the novel was named Popular Fiction Book of the Year at the UK's annual Galaxy National Book Awards ceremony, and was later granted the accolade of Galaxy Book of the Year. [1]
The dustjacket front flap of the first edition carried no specially written blurb. Instead, it repeated the text which appeared on the jacket of The Mysterious Affair at Styles (the back jacket flap carrying review quotes of the earlier novel). In later editions, blurbs first published in the back of Poirot Investigates were used. [7]
The book's blurb described it as about "the rise of the geeky teenage Lib Dem who transformed into the queen of the Brexiteers". [3] The Bookseller quoted Cole and Heale as saying Truss "has been written off, belittled and undermined throughout her march to power", and expressing a desire to explain her rise to the prime minister's office.
The Book Thief is a historical fiction novel by the Australian author Markus Zusak, set in Nazi Germany during World War II.Published in 2005, The Book Thief became an international bestseller and was translated into 63 languages and sold 17 million copies.