Observing the audience: how reader analytics are influencing the industry
Reader analytics are garnering huge attention at the moment and there are at least four major talks at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair discussing how…
Key trends in the global book market at Frankfurt Book Fair
Every year, the Frankfurt Book Fair is one of the largest gatherings for the international publishing world and for the second year in a row,…
Marketing vs Design: Mark Ecob interview
Mark Ecob is Creative Director of cover design company Mecob Design Ltd, Associate Art Director at Unbound, and is speaking at our next event: ‘Marketing vs…
BookGig: The ‘publisher agnostic’ initiative launched by HarperCollins
A new initiative hit the book world this week: BookGig, ‘all the events from the authors you love’. What’s interesting about that? Well, it’s one…
Win a place on ‘Copywriting for publishers’ worth £435
If you work in publishing, you are already familiar with the power of words. Whether you have to write advance information sheets, catalogue entries, back-cover…
Marketing vs Design: Matt Haslum interview
Matt Haslum is Marketing Director at Faber & Faber and is speaking at our next event: ‘Marketing vs Design, which matters more?’. Before publishing, Matt spent…
Irish book sales up by 20% as feel-good factor returns to publishing
The book trade in Ireland is booming with sales up by more than 20 per cent to date this year. Here are some of the…
2016 Trend Report: What publishers need to know
The Future Today Institute has created a terrific, free report summarizing key technology trends and what they mean for tomorrow. I’ve embedded the report below…
Dead Ink publisher to receive Art Council grant
Dead Ink, an independent press based in Liverpool has just received confirmation of a significant grant of £65,359 from Arts Council England. The grant will…
10 tips for bookselling from the shop floor
Chicken and Frog Bookshop is the only independent children’s bookshop in Essex. The family owned and run store opened its doors in October 2012. We…
The KU Big Read – The Humans Balloon Debate
On Monday 24th October Kingston University will be concluding their host of free events centred on Matt Haig’s The Humans, in the form of a Balloon Debate with…
Free Kingston Publishing Masterclasses: The 2016 line-up
Kingston University’s Publishing MA course run a series of masterclasses from leading industry professionals every year. Here’s the 2016 line-up: Is curation the new word for…
Learn how to quickly choose images that get results [WEBINAR]
Join Getty Images for a free webinar to learn how to select images that draw in your audience. In an increasingly cluttered world of marketing…
The role of the print book in an increasingly online world
Back in 2010, working at a scholarly publisher, I had a bet with our Production Director that half our revenue would be digital by the…
10 reasons why being an editor sucks
I have some time on my hands because a couple of projects have gone sideways: they’re almost finished but for one reason or another the…
