Why I love the Man Booker Prize (and you should, too)
I try not to read the comments sections of a lot of websites because generally they are filled with postulating jerks who have glanced at…
6 Questions for Sophie Goldsworthy, Project Director, Oxford Scholarly Editions [INTERVIEW]
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…
Harper Voyager looking for un-agented submissions
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…
Wikipedia: Philip Roth ‘not credible source’ on Philip Roth
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…
Kobos and Kindles: New Additions and Winning Combinations
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’…
Something something Fifty Shades, something something Bret Easton Ellis
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…
Mark Buckland of Cargo Publishing on the Edinburgh International Book Festival [INTERVIEW]
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…
The benefits of animation for educational publishers [VIEWPOINT]
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.…
‘Sock puppets!’
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.…
The first ELT Agent [INTERVIEW]
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.…
Amazon’s Press Conference: What Can We Expect?
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…
New deals for NOOK, Kobo and Kindle, some combination thereof
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…
Design considerations when Publishing to a Global Market [VIEWPOINT]
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…
5 questions for Ben Goddard of Little, Brown about metadata [INTERVIEW]
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…
Chicken Soup for the Soul now wants to do that to your stomach
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…
