Anna Burkey is the Communications & Operations Manager for Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature Trust, and produces Story Shop at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
Yesterday afternoon, Canongate quietly made public an innovation so head-slappingly simple that suddenly, the slow demise of the print media that hadn’t thought of this…
This is a guest post by Dan Kieran, co-founder and CEO of Unbound.co.uk. A few months ago we were invited to speak at a Futurebook…
Lisa Goll claims that ‘BookMachine is the most fun you can have in publishing with your clothes on’. How great is that? Here…
Felice Howden, Writer and Digital Media Production assistant at OUP, writes really well so we were really excited to read her review of last week’s…
Fabienne Emue, author and publisher for Ray Parnac and www.emue.fr had some interesting conversations at her first BookMachine party.
Waterstones’ decision to end its rolling, decade-long 3-for-2 offer is one riddled with contradictions. On the one hand, you have new managing director James Daunt…
If you’ll indulge me, I’d like to relate a story about Alasdair Gray. Kind of. Maybe ‘a story that’s emblematic of Alasdair Gray’ would be…
In arguably the week’s biggest piece of publishing news, Amazon registers KindleScribe.com and KindleScribes.com, but why? (hint: they’re probably not launching a new line of…
The National Occupational Standards for Publishing were last updated in 2005 by the Publishing Training Centre. Needless to say, the industry’s gone through what might…
While rain bucketed down across London earlier in the month, the HarperCollins Marketing team took to Brent Cross with a troop of professional dancers…
Ideally, all books about CBGB would be tattered, dog-eared and covered in mysterious stains. They’d be found in the dankest recesses of the most…
First things first, why did you start up a publishing company? In the 1960s there wasn’t much careers guidance but I was told I…
So folks, that was BookMachine’s #kindleweek. Taking this week as a snapshot of web-words around the subject of Amazon, it’s clear that Booksellers are wary…
Amazon have done well from the Kindle – a contraption that, for some, seems to look like a relic from 10 years ago, running books…
