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On the eve of Stockholm’s The Next Chapter publishing conference, the former chief of the UK’s Penguin Books Digital spoke of the “inherent decency” of the industry; the message of video’s prevalence; the fact that everybody is a publisher today; and the possibility that publishing is “too nice.”

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It’s time for the woman richer than the Queen to show us what else she’s got up her sleeve. Time to leave our childhoods and enter a world where JK Rowling releases books that don’t include magic spells.

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Life is a valuable, irreplaceable, first-hand account of over fifty years of rock ‘n roll history, filled with insights about music making and music makers and told by one great high octane artist who emerges from these pages as endearing, if not lovable