5 Questions for Sheila Bounford [INTERVIEW]
Sheila Bounford founded Off the Page Ideas in 2012 and works with a variety traditional print publishing and digital publishing & services businesses as they…
Love Your Library Day: ‘It’s not just pole fitness on offer’
The title of ‘most hilariously deadpan caption of the week’ goes to The Guardian, which this past Friday ran a photo of two women spinning…
O’Reilly’s TOC announces Publishing StartUp Finalists & BookMachine is one of them!
Last week O’Reilly’s Tools of Change announced their 10 Publishing Startup Showcase Finalists and I am thrilled to announce, on behalf of Laura, Gavin and…
Blockbuster, HMV, and the Death of the High Street
Last week, I heard someone say they were surprised by the news that Blockbuster had gone into administration – surprised, because they didn’t know Blockbuster…
Dan Brown announces latest results of book-writing algorithm
In news that has Oxfam shops the country over bracing themselves for impact, Doubleday has revealed details of the sixth novel by Dan Brown. Due…
McDonald’s continues fight against mind obesity with free books
Almost exactly a year ago – on the equivalent Tuesday in 2012, in fact – we ran a piece about how McDonald’s was embarking upon…
Is Re-Publishing a Self-Published Book a Good Idea?
In the last two years, a lot of publishers have been buying into self-published ebook successes in a big way. There’s the Amanda Hocking trilogy,…
6 questions for Adrian Hon of Six to Start [INTERVIEW]
Adrian Hon is the Founder and Chief Creative at Six to Start, an award-winning online games company. Working with the likes of Penguin Books, Disney and…
BookMachine needs you! TOC Conference Startup Showcase semi-finals [ANNOUNCEMENT]
We’re excited to announce that BookMachine.me, the new people discovery site we’ve been working on for the past year, has made it to the semi-finals…
50 Years of Book Production
David Bann has worked in production at Penguin, Rainbird and, most recently, Michael O’Mara Books. Here he takes a look back at the dramatic changes…
Cargo announces initial plans for third year of Margins fest
Dig out your Ladz On Tour t-shirts: Beloved Glasgow indie Cargo Publishing has announced a jaunt up north for the third year of its Margins…
New Thomas Pynchon book exists, and that’s it for now
Yeah, so the apocalypse didn’t happen after all and we’re back for 2013, and hello again, and [SEASONAL PLEASANTRY NOT FOUND]. In even more Earth-shaking…
A Compendium of Linguistic Failure: Dictionaries Losing It
One of the most horrific things I heard at university was linguistics tutor spouting the idea that we need to embrace changes to our language…
What BookMachine writers read in 2012
For all that BookMachine is emphatically not a site about the merits of individual books, it hopefully doesn’t come as a shock to any regular…
Top 10 Tips for new ebook assistants
This is a guest post from Arundati Dandapani, who has degrees in English and Publishing and has studied, worked and travelled in India, USA and…
