Using technology to grow the size of the book market
When you reach the end of a good book, you want to read another. This is a sentiment we hear readers express time and again.…
Tag: technology
Innovative publishing for people who have visual impairments
It’s entirely possible that you won’t have heard of Calibre and yet this organisation is a key part of the publishing supply chain for thousands…
Matching business growth with the right tech
This is a guest post by Matt Goolding. Matt is Head of Digital Marketing at Ribbonfish, a London-based tech company that builds enterprise solutions for the…
Hope and Confidence: An optimistic future for publishing
Some weeks ago, I was explaining the returns system and how integral it had become to the industry to a friend. “I get it,” he…
A cyber challenge for 2016
This is a guest post from Tom Chalmers, Managing Director at IPR License, on publishing and the growing risk of cyber attacks. On the back…
FutureBook 2015: Our best posts on mobile reading
It’s the FutureBook Conference 2015 today. This afternoon, Anna Rafferty chaired the discussion ‘On the move: how mobile changes everything’. The panel was comprised of…
14 things we learnt about the future of academic book discovery
On Tuesday night London Book Fair held their Tech Tuesday event during Academic Book Week. With the overarching question: ‘Academic book discovery; will the role…
Publishers implanting technology both inside and outside their businesses
This is a guest post from Tom Chalmers, Managing Director at IPR License, on technology, rights and licensing. October was, as expected, a busy month…
6 changes affecting academic publishing
To celebrate Academic Book Week, we’re running a series of posts on Academic Publishing. Here are 6 of the big changes which are affecting the sector.
Content is no longer king. Here are 5 things that are.
This is a guest post by Nick Robinson. Nick has worked in ELT publishing since 2004 and in 2012 he founded the world’s first ELT author…
An author event without the warm white wine and crisps
This is a Guest Post by Sam Eades. Sam spent eight years as a publicist working for Transworld, Headline and Pan Macmillan on authors including Neil Gaiman,…
The next 5 years of publishing: on connecting audiences to stories [OPINION]
In the run up to tonight’s event, Publishing: the next 5 years, BookMachine has been featuring a number of opinions about what might be next for the…
Coder Generation: Building digital skills doesn’t have to be scary
The digital revolution might seem like a challenge to us now, but there’s a whole new generation of digital natives that will be coming into…
