Book Cover Design for Self-Published Authors
It’s a popular myth that the book cover is dead , but unless bricks and mortar bookstores and online cover thumbnails disappear, that simply isn’t…
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ALCS report finds massive disparity in authors’ earnings
The Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society has published the results of its report into the money made by professional authors, and none of it will…
BookMachine Success Story: John Pettigrew (entrepreneur)
Here is a short interview with John Pettigrew, founder of Futureproofs, as part of the ‘BookMachine Success’ series. Join BookMachine today 1. How did BookMachine…
BookMachine Success Story: Annette Peppis (designer)
Here is a short interview with Annette Peppis, Experienced Book Designer, as part of the ‘BookMachine Success’ series. Join BookMachine today 1. How did BookMachine…
BookMachine Success Story: Charly Ford (IPG)
Here is a short interview with Charly Salvesen-Ford, Membership and Events officer at IPG, as part of the ‘BookMachine Success’ series. Join BookMachine today 1.…
BookMachine Success Story: Olga Levancuka (writer)
Here is a short interview with Olga Levancuka, writer of “How to Be Selfish (And other uncomfortable advice), as part of the ‘BookMachine Success’ series.…
Orion acquires new Alan Partridge book
BACK OF THE NET – Orion has acquired a second book by Alan Partridge, the former BBC chat show host, sometime sports correspondent, current North…
Second volume of Patti Smith memoir coming this year
Revered punk-poet-musician Patti Smith released her first volume of memoir, Just Kids, in 2010. Focusing on her relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe as the pair…
Book Fairs Broadening Their Horizons
This is a guest post from Tom Chalmers, Managing Director at IPR License. The last few years have certainly seen a rise in the importance…
Cargo publishing Social Bite Cookbook
Social Bite is, as the name suggests, a social enterprise: a chain of cafes selling soups and sandwiches, whose profits are given entirely to charitable…
Jam-packed report for internet-based business models
Dosdoce.com, a website renowned for analysing new technologies in the book world, have released a white paper outlining New business models for publishing houses, bookshops,…
#5MarketingTips – A Photo/Twitter blog from BookMachine London
To celebrate the launch of Alison Baverstock’s new edition of How to Market Books, Clare Somerville (Deputy MD of the Hachette’s Children’s Group) and Richard…
London Book Fair opens poetry competition
Next week’s London Book Fair is, for the first time, incorporating poetry, with its Poetry Pavilion space giving publishers of poetry a place to exhibit.…
Public Speaking Tips for Authors: Interview with Nancy Buffington
This is a guest post from Stacy Ennis. Stacy is a book and magazine editor, writer, book coach, and speaker, as well as the author…
Wodehouse Prize reveals 2015 shortlist
The shortlist has been unveiled for the 2015 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, pitting three debuting novelists (all of them women, incidentally) against…
