Five years ago Oxford University Press initiated a project to transform the way old texts could be accessed, read and re-purposed online. Oxford Scholarly Editions…
HarperCollins’ sci-fi, horror and otherwise otherworldly imprint Harper Voyager has announced that, for the first time in over a decade, it will be accepting un-agented…
In a case we might call The Plot Against the Literati, were we at the intersection where readers familiar with the work of Philip Roth…
Last week saw the release of a new Kobo range, and (not to be outdone) the yearly release of the new Kindle line. Despite Bezos’…
In the latest in a series of slow news day-saving incidents that we might as well group together under the headline ‘Chris has had a…
Comprising the Jazz Festival, the Art Festival, the Film Festival and of course the world famous Comedy Festival; Edinburgh International Festival has just drawn to…
This is a guest post from Nicola Esson of HL Studios, sponsors of BookMachine Oxford, happening this Thursday 6th September at the Ashmolean Dining Room.…
Late on Friday night, a tweet from the writer Alan Gillespie appeared on my feed that read ‘Read @jeremyduns‘ timeline for a literary Hollyoaks episode.…
For anyone who has been reading my previous BookMachine posts you will notice that I’ve been writing a lot about people in the ELT industry.…
Sales figures. A detailed breakdown of sales of devices by country, including market share, plus a deep look into the data they hold for each…
You know how before you got to see The Avengers you had to sit through all the Iron Mans and Captain Americas and Scandinavian God…
A couple of months I wrote an article for the Futurebook blog in recognition of the site’s world-wide reach, and I thought it was time…
In an ambitious attempt to target those fuzzier (and I don’t mean cuddly) sides of publishing, this week Ben Goddard, Business Manager for Digital at…
The Guardian points to a particularly nausea-inducing case of cross-platform synergy – more than usual, even, where the words ‘cross-platform synergy’ are concerned – courtesy…
There aren’t many people I know who have come away from reading 50 Shades of Grey feeling they have experienced a well-written, deeply thoughtful piece of…
