Case Study: Designing Covers for Academic Publishing
For eight years, I’ve specialized in designing books for Academic Publishing. When I pursued book cover design, I thought I would be creating art for…
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Inside freelancing: Louise Le Bas, Editorial
Louise Le Bas is a Senior Associate at Just Content, with experience across the broad range of formats, media and sectors spanning academic (books and journals), professional…
Startup snapshot: Bookmetrix
Martijn Roelandse was a publishing editor at Bohn Stafleu van Loghum, a Dutch Springer subsidiary, and later for Springer. Since 2015 he has been working as Manager of…
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…
Startup snapshot: Reedsy
Emmanuel Nataf is the CEO and Co-Founder of Reedsy, a community of publishing professionals creating amazing books. Here we interviewed him to catch-up with Reedsy developments.
Cover design for academic publications
Steve Thompson is a freelance cover designer. Here are a few of his thoughts, insights and tips for designers and those who commission them. Books vs. journal covers…
FutureBook 2015: Our recent posts on the academic book of the future
At yesterday’s FutureBook Conference 2015, Sam Rayner chaired the discussion: ‘The new publishing: the academic book of the future’. The panel was comprised of Richard…
How readers will become curators and resellers [OPINION]
It’s easy to think that today’s ebook is as good as it gets. Publishers are mostly satisfied with the current print-under-glass model and, unfortunately, flattening…
Book publicity: trade vs. academic publishing
This is a guest post by Mollie Broad. Mollie is a PR Assistant at SAGE Publications, a leading independent publisher of journals, books and digital media.…
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…
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.
Making the big move to Open Access publishing
This is a Guest Post by Alison Norwood, Publishing Manager at the Institute of Development Studies. What’s an academic journal to do when its editorial team…
The next 5 years of publishing: Alison Jones interview
In the run up to Publishing: the next 5 years, BookMachine will be featuring a number of opinions about what might be next for the…
Open access matters to more than academics, and here’s why
This is a guest post from Alison Jones. Alison is a business and executive coach, content consultant and publisher. After a 23-year career in trade…