The Biblio File hosted by Nigel Beale

Hosted ByNigel Beale

THE BIBLIO FILE is one of the world's leading podcasts about "the book" and an inquiry into the wider world of book culture. Hosted by Nigel Beale it features wide ranging conversations with authors, poets, book publishers, booksellers, book editors, book collectors, book makers, book scholars, book critics, book designers, book publicists, literary agents and other certified bibliophiles.


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Boris Wertz on ABE Books

Boris Wertz joined AbeBooks.com “the world’s largest Internet marketplace for books” in July 2002 after JustBooks, a similar company he’d co-founded in Germany, was acquired by the ABE. This interview took place in 2006.  After five years as…

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Ian Birch on great magazine covers

Ian Birch is “former editorial director of Hearst UK and Emap. He began his magazine career in the late 1970s as a reporter for Melody Maker before moving to Smash Hits where he was assistant editor for three years. His first launch and editorship…

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Paul Wells on Writing Politics for Newspapers, Magazines, Books & Substack

Paul Wells is a leading Canadian political journalist and author. We met at his offices in Ottawa to talk about his impressive career, and his craft writing about politics for newspapers, magazines, books, and now . Topics covered include:…

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Christopher Long on the Genius Graphics of Lucian Bernhard

“Lucian Bernhard (1883-1972) was one of the great founders of modern graphic design. In a career spanning nearly five decades in Berlin and New York, Bernhard laid the foundation for a new language of form and communication. His brilliant posters,…

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Nick Anthony on AI, and writing his first Novel

 about his experience writing a first novel and getting parts of it work-shopped. Today I catch up with him to find out what he’s been doing and where he’s at now on the road to getting his first book published. We talk about, among other…

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John Sargent on beating Amazon & Google, and saving Books

John Sargent was too young to fight in WW ll but he spent years battling Amazon and Google in the trenches on behalf of publishers and authors, protecting copyright and defending book prices. John grew up on a cattle ranch in Wyoming. Over forty years…

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Joshua Doležal on being a Book Coach

  , AND…he’s a “book coach”.  What’s a book coach? We met via Zoom to answer this question. Topics discussed include: the roles of a book coach and the qualifications you need to be one; writing tools that Josh recommends his…

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Andrew Franklin “the best of the best in U.K. publishing”

James Daunt calls him “the best of the best in U.K. publishing, constantly challenging the industry to move on when it drags its feet.” Listen to my conversation with Andrew Franklin to learn why. Andrew is founder and, until recently, publisher of…

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Michael Schmidt on 50+ years publishing poetry

Here’s how the  describes him: Michael Schmidt FRSL, poet, scholar, critic and translator, was born in Mexico in 1947; he studied at Harvard and at Wadham College, Oxford, before settling in England. Among his many publications…

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