9 questions for Michael Grant [INTERVIEW]
Michael Grant is a bestselling author of young adult fiction. His Gone series of novels has sold over 150,000 copies in the UK alone. BZRK,…
Summer’s here and the time is right for banning in the streets
Hey guys – summer’s on the way! You know how I know? No, it wasn’t the record-breaking temperatures recorded in Aberdeenshire over the weekend. And…
Google Play with Themselves
You’d be forgiven if you missed the launch of Google’s storefront in the UK – the somewhat optimistically-named ‘Google Play’, which ties together their bookstore…
BookMachine Weekly BookWrap: publishing stories from around the web
This week, you may want to contemplate the Hierarchies of ebook design, while bearing in mind what happens When Publishing Technology Attacks. And as Consumers…
5 questions for Dean Johnson about iPads [INTERVIEW]
Dean Johnson is the Executive Creative Director at Brandwidth and author of #1 Design iBook ‘Digital Publishing: The Next Steps’. He is also a…
Inanimate Alice is 9 years old. How’s she doing? [REPORT]
Welcome to the world of Inanimate Alice, a truly digital novel that has taken the educational world by storm. The idea for Alice first came…
BookMachine Weekly BookWrap: publishing stories from around the web
Before you get stuck in to this week, here are the publishing stories you may have missed over the past fortnight. On BookMachine, we’ve been…
Piracy, Authors and Trust
This week I took some time out from sipping a cup of coffee and hitting ‘send’ on an email, and doing various other publisher-related tasks, and…
Harper Collins launching erotica for women, sniggering men-children
Speaking as one who largely operates outside the realm of publishing, this past week of book news has demonstrated one thing quite clearly: you all…
Edinburgh Book Festival announces conference to commemorate that one time authors were snide to one another
The Edinburgh International Book Festival has announced that as part of this year’s programme it will host the first event in what is hoped will…
Erotic novel serves as good fertiliser
If you don’t know about 50 Shades of Grey yet (ie: if you don’t have Twitter) then here’s a brief summary: it’s an erotic novel…
‘Publishers are important,’ Val McDermid tells room full of publishers
Crime author Val McDermid has affirmed her belief in the importance of publishers to the overall quality of an author’s work. Speaking at a joint…
Swede a turn up for the books
The Observer points to the news that Hesperus Press – a tiny London-based publisher run by a staff of just five people – has acquired…
Where Are They Now? Cutting edge digital developments that didn’t make it work.
Things have moved fast in publishing recently, there’s no doubt about that. It’s moved so fast in fact it’s easy to forget all those high-flying…
BookMachine Weekly BookWrap: publishing stories from around the web
Over the past couple of weeks on BookMachine, we’ve been pondering: Should Publishers care about Pinterest, why the Exponential growth of Indian book market somehow…
