The business of books: social selling
At the London Book Fair’s Quantum conference last month I listened to Aissetou Ngom talk about Penguin Platform, the young adult brand which she manages.…
Community Building: pleasure, pain and lessons learned
One evening a group of publishing people got together to think through ways to keep in touch throughout their careers. The aim was to keep…
Every business book is a start-up?
It’s a terrible irony of nonfiction publishing that the people with the most interesting things to say are often too busy actually doing their thing…
How to build a community: Interview with Will Rycroft
Will Rycroft is Community Manager at VINTAGE, and speaker at our next event, ‘How to build a community‘, on the 18th May. VINTAGE books have…
Startup snapshot: Futureproofs
John Pettigrew is CEO and Founder of Futureproofs, where he is trying to make editors’ lives better with software designed for the jobs they actually do.…
How to negotiate a pay rise (if you’re a woman)
This is a guest post by blogger Maura Quint, and originally published by McSweeney’s. For an industry dominated by women, this is not quite as relevant to…
What’s the missing ingredient for unlimited reading services?
I’ve been a fan of unlimited e-reading services for at least a couple of years now. When Oyster Books went under I shifted to Kindle…
All the facts and stats from the UK Children’s Summit
For the first time this year, Nielsen Book held a UK Children’s Summit at London Book Fair, covering the incredible growth we’ve seen in Children’s…
Writing unthinkingly: 7 steps to finding a writing habit that works for you
It’s all too easy to put off writing. I’m just way too busy, now’s not the right time, there’s other stuff going on. We know…
The business of publishing: on writing a book live
You’d think that publishers would be in the perfect position to turn their hand to writing a book, wouldn’t you? Especially one who actually began…
6 mistakes to avoid when diversifying published content
The theory of diversifying published content is well-established among publishers in the modern industry. We all know that stories can be told in many different…
10 most popular BookMachine posts ever
We’re working out what to publish next here at BookMachine HQ and thought, as we were delving into the analytics, that you might appreciate a…
On serialising content
The Pigeonhole is a made-for-mobile digital book club, serialising their books in instalments delivered straight to a reader’s virtual bookshelf on the iOS app or…
Women in Comics: are we failing to recognise female creators?
One of the world’s biggest comic-book festivals, Angoulême, made the headlines earlier this year when it failed to include any women in their 30-strong shortlist for the…
On crowdsourcing and crowdfunding: 10 things we learned from #LBF16
Jan Kasprzycki-Rosikon (Managing Director, MillionYou), John Mitchinson (Co-founder, Unbound) and Enrique Parrilla (Chief Executive, Pentian) spoke on crowdfunding and crowdsourcing at this year’s The London…
