Following on from the post about publishers’ websites, I wanted to start looking at some specific sites and find out what they do well... and what they do badly. First up is Angry Robot Books, an imprint of HarperCollins. >>

I seem to spend a lot of time browsing publisher websites and, with some exceptions, I'm always surprised at how little effort these sites put into attempting to engage me as a consumer. The Internet is a great tool for communicating with your customers, and for direct selling, and publishers just aren't taking advantage of this. >>

If you are planning to write and publish books, or if you’re engaged in any kind of activity that would make an online presence useful, one thing you should do right now is get your name as a domain. >>

The Last Dickens, Matthew Pearl's thriller about a hunt for the missing installments of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, suffers from similar problems to his previous Poe Shadow: an overabundance of background trivia in place of story. >>

I've been revisiting the Atlantic Crime Classics range lately, taking a look at their March title, a new edition of Edgar Allen Poe's Dupin stories, collected under the title of the first and most famous tale, The Murders in the Rue Morgue. >>

In Rimbaud: The Double Life of a Rebel, author Edmund White examines the relationship between the legendary hell-raiser's life and his work, with asides on the impact of Rimbaud's story on White's own life. >>