YUDU and Pearson ELT launch free Poptropica English® app
Multi-platform publisher and app developer YUDU has teamed with Pearson ELT (English Language Teaching) to launch a free app accompanying Pearson’s Poptropica English® range of…
5 Questions for Jeremy Trevathan, Publisher, Pan MacMillan
Jeremy Trevathan, Publisher, is responsible for the shape, direction and profitability of the adult publishing lists at Pan Macmillan in the UK. This includes Macmillan,…
Orwell Prize reveals 2015 shortlists
The Orwell Prize, presented annually to political books and journalism that come closest to realising George Orwell’s ambition ‘to make political writing into an art’,…
A unique take on publishing: Sam Rennie interview
Sam Rennie founded Readership in 2014. Readership is a reader-generated publishing company where booklovers decide what is published. Here Stephanie Cox interviews Sam about the…
Announcing launch of Snapshots II [EVENT]
For the second year in a row, Publishing MA students at Kingston University have taken the best content from the BookMachine blog and used it…
Book Cover Design for Self-Published Authors
It’s a popular myth that the book cover is dead , but unless bricks and mortar bookstores and online cover thumbnails disappear, that simply isn’t…
ALCS report finds massive disparity in authors’ earnings
The Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society has published the results of its report into the money made by professional authors, and none of it will…
On blogging and publishing: Samantha March interview
Samantha March founded Marching Ink in 2011 and has personally published three novels since – Destined to Fail, The Green Ticket and A Questionable Friendship.…
BookMachine Success Story: John Pettigrew (entrepreneur)
Here is a short interview with John Pettigrew, founder of Futureproofs, as part of the ‘BookMachine Success’ series. Join BookMachine today 1. How did BookMachine…
BookMachine Success Story: Annette Peppis (designer)
Here is a short interview with Annette Peppis, Experienced Book Designer, as part of the ‘BookMachine Success’ series. Join BookMachine today 1. How did BookMachine…
BookMachine Success Story: Charly Ford (IPG)
Here is a short interview with Charly Salvesen-Ford, Membership and Events officer at IPG, as part of the ‘BookMachine Success’ series. Join BookMachine today 1.…
BookMachine Success Story: Olga Levancuka (writer)
Here is a short interview with Olga Levancuka, writer of “How to Be Selfish (And other uncomfortable advice), as part of the ‘BookMachine Success’ series.…
Talking About Books to a Global Audience
This is a guest post by Rob Chilver. Rob is a Social Media assistant for Waterstones, working on a number of mediums from blogging to…
Orion acquires new Alan Partridge book
BACK OF THE NET – Orion has acquired a second book by Alan Partridge, the former BBC chat show host, sometime sports correspondent, current North…
Second volume of Patti Smith memoir coming this year
Revered punk-poet-musician Patti Smith released her first volume of memoir, Just Kids, in 2010. Focusing on her relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe as the pair…
