Writing for The Round [interview]
The changing nature of publishing is forcing Publishing houses, writers, authors – content creators – to think differently, experiment and look at working with new…
R. Kelly to release spectacularly-titled autobiography
Now usually I don’t do this, but uh, go ahead and break ’em off with a little preview of the memoir: now I’m not trying…
Social Media Sins: Just Don’t.
Can’t say there’s been much news this week – no big mergers to report, and no-one has invented the Next Big Thing to save/destroy publishing,…
5 questions for the hosts of BookMachine Oxford – 28th June [INTERVIEW]
Charly Ford and Emily Holmes work at Osprey Group in Oxford and will be hosts of the next BookMachine shindig in Oxford. We thought you…
Bardowl launches streaming audiobook subscription service
In a move that will either be hailed as bringing publishing in line with the demands of a perma-streaming society or derided as pandering to…
6 Questions for Andrew Turner of the Society of Young Publishers [INTERVIEW]
Andrew Turner is Marketing Executive at Nelson Croom (who are currently offering 10% off their online publishing courses for BookMachine readers) and current chair of…
Fifty Shades of Grey fastest selling UK paperback no one admits to buying
In news that, for the sake of hilarity, we’ll attribute to The Daily Mail, EL James’ piece of Twilight slash fiction Fifty Shades of Grey has…
Sainsobii vs Wamazon: Battle of the Bookseller Titans
Last week, a new alliance between supermarket Sainsbury’s and social reading site aNobii rocked the publishing world. As I’ve said before, aNobii have been ramping…
BookMachine Weekly BookWrap: publishing stories from around the web
This week on the site, our Monday column argued that sometimes Your Innovation Ain’t All That. We then saw The elderly get techy with iPads,…
Gravity’s Kindle: Thomas Pynchon’s back catalogue digitised at last
In what hopefully isn’t a portent of his impending death, Thomas Pynchon has joined the likes of Ray Bradbury in finally consenting to have his…
The elderly get techy with iPads – Part 1
David and Marjorie are in their late 80’s, both are retired teachers. (David a maths teacher and Marjorie a music teacher) They love socialising, meeting…
Publishing goes to the dogs in early Christmas slate announcements
Remember those halcyon days of late 2011? When we were all getting so excited about Christmas, because of all the meerkat books Santa was going…
BookMachine Oxford (hosted by Osprey Group) – 28th June [EVENT]
BookMachine Oxford (hosted by Osprey Group) Thursday, June 28, 2012 at 5:30 PM All Bar One, 124 High Street, OX1 4DF Oxford BookMachine…
Your Innovation Ain’t All That
or The Future of Storytelling Might Not Be So Fancy Two weeks ago, a friend of mine, knowing my penchant for all things techy and…
‘I wrote, at noon or 3:00 A.M. So as not to be dead’: RIP Ray Bradbury
In what is fast proving to be a bad year for beloved, revered authors who have shaped the minds of entire generations, Ray Bradbury died…
