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…
Tag: educational publishing
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…
Can both educational and trade publishers successfully extend their business and act as educators?
Yesterday I attended the International Digital Publishing Conference and Forum at City University. It was a real treat to attend lectures by key players in…
