All children have the right to read quality books: a report from Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2022
I was lucky this year to have the chance to attend the Bologna Children’s Book Fair (BCBF) for the first time. Like most of the…
Tag: educational publishing
Wednesday Wisdom: Live Interview with Rachel Johnson (Cambridge Learning)
Tune into a live Wednesday Wisdom Q&A for Production Season on 3rd February with Rachel Johnson, Operation Director at Cambridge Learning for Schools.…
How technology can make reading fun [EVENT]
Reading and technology are hot topics. If kids are glued to their devices, where do books fit in? How can we make sure they keep…
Digital publishing is now “fabric”, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy
This is a guest blog post by Steve Connolly, Publishing Director for FE and Digital at Hodder Education. This blog post first appeared on the…
10 realities of virtual reality from #Quantum16
David Ingham, Director of Digital Media at Cognizant, and Phil Harper, Director at Alchemy VR before recently founding IMRGE, took to the stage at the Quantum…
9 commissioning tips: educational, non-fiction trade and all-rounders
Becky Lovell has been a Commissioning Editor for 6 years across both educational and non-fiction trade publishing. She is currently Commissioning Editor for the international…
Giving it away: the magic of content marketing
Evie Prysor-Jones is Content Lead at Optimus Education. She’s a big fan of data driven digital marketing and alliteration. On Tuesday Evie will be speaking…
5 questions for Caroline Moore on mobile language learning [INTERVIEW]
Increasingly, Publishers and content creators are getting their material onto mobile devices. It makes perfect sense to be doing so, putting learning tools directly into…
The first ELT Agent [INTERVIEW]
For anyone who has been reading my previous BookMachine posts you will notice that I’ve been writing a lot about people in the ELT industry.…
Design considerations when Publishing to a Global Market [VIEWPOINT]
A couple of months I wrote an article for the Futurebook blog in recognition of the site’s world-wide reach, and I thought it was time…
Bring Your Own Technology
We keep hearing that America is a few years ahead of us in terms of technology. If this is the case then UK Publishers, Schools…
ELT Teachers can become authors [INTERVIEW]
Continuing with the theme from my last post for BookMachine on interesting English Language Teaching (ELT) Publishing start-ups, I interviewed Karen Spiller, freelance ELT project…
Writing for The Round [interview]
The changing nature of publishing is forcing Publishing houses, writers, authors – content creators – to think differently, experiment and look at working with new…
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
On the site this week, we were Writing the book on fashion, arguing that the term ‘Legacy Publisher’ Is Not A Thing, and reporting on…