Publishing Now: The Golden Age [REPORT]

Tahira Rahemtulla is one of the City University project leaders for Publishing Now 2011. A week on from the big event, Tahira reports on happenings over the weekend…

Tahira Rahemtulla is one of the City University project leaders for Publishing Now 2011. A week on from the big event, Tahira reports on happenings over the weekend…
Sophie Sampson is just about to take the stage at Publishing Now 2011, Justina Semetaite has a few questions for her…
This past Friday saw another of our regular Twitter debates on the state of publishing, in advance of this coming weekend’s Publishing Now conference. The topic this time was how innovation is adding value to publishing. What follows is a selection of highlights; all contributions are available on Twitter through the hashtag #pubnow (which, incidentally, was also the first two words out of my mouth when I finished trawling through all the tweets).
Simon Appleby of Bookswarm will be debating innovation this Friday at Publishing Now. Elin Butler has some questions for him…
Tahira Rahemtulla is one of the City University project leaders for Publishing Now. With just a week to go until kick-off, Tahira talks about the key theme of the event: innovation…

Bobby Nayyar is a name you’ve probably heard associated with the Booktrust, Limehouse Books or even back from his days at working at Little Brown. Today we’ve got him here on the metaphoric couch …


A ruthless corporation which seemingly controls everything. The rise of the machines. The rebellion. Yes, it’s an exciting time for publishing, especially if your benchmark for excitement is Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Logically, then, it doesn’t seem like too much of a stretch to suggest that BookMachine’s forthcoming conference Publishing Now 2011: The Golden Age Of Innovation will be more thrilling than James Cameron’s entire filmography combined. At the very least, it’ll definitely be better than Avatar, which was rubbish. You can quote me on that.
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