Roundup of the Westminster Media Forum Keynote Seminar
Abbie Headon is Commissioning and Digital Development Editor at Summersdale Publishers, and a BookMachine Board Member (representing the Editorial Channel). I was lucky enough last week to…
Tag: Innovation
7 questions to shape an effective innovation team
When managing any innovation project, organizing your team is one of the most important challenges you will face. No matter if you found a startup…
Why publishers should be like Bond (James Bond)
Last week I gave a talk at the CoreSource user group on success and agility. Ingram Content Group itself exemplifies both: over the last 20…
The next 5 years of publishing – a photo/twitter blog
To celebrate 5 years of publishing events, BookMachine held a big birthday bash on Thursday night. Appropriately, the event was all about the next 5 years of…
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…
Kickstarter: publishing so indie it hurts (in a good way).
Did you ever have a super-indie friend when you were younger? The kind who would have a party catered by his friend who owned a…
An Eye On Global Publishing Innovation at LBF
There’s been a lot of bad shit going on in publishing of late. Stuff that genuinely makes me worried, and I think rightfully so, about…
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…
Where Are They Now? Cutting edge digital developments that didn’t make it work.
Things have moved fast in publishing recently, there’s no doubt about that. It’s moved so fast in fact it’s easy to forget all those high-flying…
8 questions for Alastair Horne [interview]
Alastair Horne (Innovations Manager for Cambridge University Press) is everywhere. On Twitter, at ELT conferences, writing for FutureBook, TOC and at our very own…
There’s no E in book: 5 non-digital book-based innovations
Printed books will never really go away. They’ll be superseded by e-books, sure. They’ll become a minority interest. They’ll be treated as relics of a…
