Top 5 digital promo tools: Part 2 – Mobile
There’s has been a huge amount of hype around mobile apps since the New York Times declared a Gold Rush two years ago. Clients are…
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Top 5 digital promo tools: Part 1 – Audio
In an era where you’re competing with umpteen websites, Facebook feeds, Twitter streams and mobile apps – promoting new books and publications can be somewhat…
13 questions for: Alan Grierson (Bright Red Publishing)
Three years ago, Alan Grierson co-founded Bright Red Publishing, an Edinburgh based startup which creates educational resources for Scottish students and teachers. The company…
Read Books, Talk Books, Think Books. Books Make you Sexy.
Right, I have a confession to make; I stole the title of this article. I stole it because it’s brilliant. Why is it brilliant? Because…
We want to mash-up a drinks social with a book selling market. Help us do it.
Here’s the idea – it’s about 9.30 on a Friday night at a busy venue somewhere in London. Inside and outside the atmosphere is bustling,…
5 of the best book trailers
This is BookMachine’s first ‘Best of’ post – as such, I wholeheartedly hope you find it to be outrageously wrong. Has there ever been one…
33 cities and counting: how Literary Death Match crowdsourced its way around the world
Literary Death Match is a competitive literary night which began in New York and has spread to 33 cities worldwide, including London, Cardiff, Dublin and…
To cut a long story short – life as a short story publisher
A mighty impressive tale of starting out as an online publisher – Clare Hey, founder of Shortfire Press shares her experience… what do you think?
Mind Your Language
Alex Painter, Marketing and Development Director at Editorial Training, discusses editorial standards and gives some tips – if you’re also a stickler for detail, make…
Making Transitions in your Publishing Career
Changing the direction of your career in publishing may be a challenge but if you are determined, prepared, and take a realistic approach, it should…
Bookselling – starting out; the traditional way
The BEBC is Britain’s largest specialist English Language Teaching bookseller. Here, John Walsh, Managing Director shares all… from the days of the Net Book Agreement, to…
Making your ‘out of office’ permanent: on going freelance
Tom Ashton (AKA Ashton Editorial) has been a freelance project manager for nearly a year now. Here he shares an overview of his experience. I…
Self-publishing; an author’s perspective [INTERVIEW]
I was fortunate to meet Fiona Skowronski, author of Smuggler’s Caves, a few weeks ago and loved her experience of self-publishing. Here she shares all:
Book Machinations
As if you needed further convincing to drop by the BookMachine party on the 10th, here’s a review of December’s event from employment guru, Sam…
Time to augment reality in 2011?
Whenever I admit to being one of those digital-publishing-type-people, I’m usually told there’s two crucial things I’ve overlooked:
