From scarcity to ubiquity: digitisation in photography
This is a guest post from Rebecca Swift, Director of Creative Planning at iStock (speaker at BookMachine London this Thursday) Last year Facebook revealed that…
Diversity, gender, equality, and inclusion in publishing
This is a guest post from Claire Louise Kemp, Consultant at Atwood Tate (sponsor of BookMachine Oxford on November 6). “If you want to make…
5 Questions for Jake McGraw from Refinery29 [INTERVIEW]
Host of November’s BookMachine NYC, Bree Weber, talks to speaker on the night Jake McGraw, Director of Operations at Refinery29. Grab your tickets for BookMachine…
Amazon launches ‘reader powered publishing’ with Kindle Scout
Amazon has launched what it describes as ‘reader powered publishing’ in the form of Kindle Scout, a crowdsourcing initiative to find unpublished authors and, uh,…
Action Comics #1 available to read, for free, online
A copy of Action Comics #1 – arguably the single most sought after issue in the history of the medium – recently sold at (eBay)…
5 questions for freelance editor and consultant Beth Cox [INTERVIEW]
BookMachine Oxford host Charly Salvesen-Ford talks to Beth Cox, freelance editor and consultant specialising in children’s books, and the star of our event on 6th…
Three things I learned that made working in publishing bearable
This is a guest post from Carl Pappenheim, owner of Spineless Classics about Working in Publishing Publishing is comfortably the most glamorous and educational industry…
That’s Write! [COMPETITION]
This is a guest post from Tahira Rahemtulla, a senior editor at Unambiguous Edit. Tahira graduated from City University London in 2012, with a Masters…
Waterstones Piccadilly holding lock-in inspired ‘sleepover’
Credit where it’s due to Waterstones’ PR staff: following a potentially embarrassing incident last week, in which an American tourist had to tweet and post…
5 Questions for Miral Sattar from Bibliocrunch [INTERVIEW]
Host of November’s BookMachine NYC, Bree Weber, talks to speaker on the night Miral Sattar, founder of BiblioCrunch. Grab your tickets for BookMachine NYC here.…
Twin Peaks novel to bridge 25 year gap between seasons
If you haven’t already started affecting a veneer of cool disdain as a reaction to everyone else losing their minds, you may be mildly excited…
Technology still needs an audience
In a technological age we all have to think that little bit more about what we say, how we say it and where we say…
5 questions for Joe Regal from Zola Books [INTERVIEW]
Host of November’s BookMachine NYC, Bree Weber, talks to speaker on the night Joe Regal, co-founder of Zola Books. Grab your tickets for BookMachine NYC…
3 lessons writers can learn from the music industry
This is a guest blog from Christopher Russell, author of Mockstars, a music novel inspired by his international tour diaries for rock/pop band The Lightyears.…
Inspiration for publishers in 4 cities
November 6. London, New York, Oxford and Brighton – Meet and collaborate with the most inspiring people in the publishing industry today. A few people…
