BookMachine needs you! TOC Conference Startup Showcase semi-finals [ANNOUNCEMENT]
We’re excited to announce that BookMachine.me, the new people discovery site we’ve been working on for the past year, has made it to the semi-finals…
Articles
50 Years of Book Production
David Bann has worked in production at Penguin, Rainbird and, most recently, Michael O’Mara Books. Here he takes a look back at the dramatic changes…
Cargo announces initial plans for third year of Margins fest
Dig out your Ladz On Tour t-shirts: Beloved Glasgow indie Cargo Publishing has announced a jaunt up north for the third year of its Margins…
New Thomas Pynchon book exists, and that’s it for now
Yeah, so the apocalypse didn’t happen after all and we’re back for 2013, and hello again, and [SEASONAL PLEASANTRY NOT FOUND]. In even more Earth-shaking…
A Compendium of Linguistic Failure: Dictionaries Losing It
One of the most horrific things I heard at university was linguistics tutor spouting the idea that we need to embrace changes to our language…
What BookMachine writers read in 2012
For all that BookMachine is emphatically not a site about the merits of individual books, it hopefully doesn’t come as a shock to any regular…
Booker 2013 judging panel revealed
Following last month’s announcement that author and Fellow in English Literature at Cambridge University Robert Macfarlane would chair the judging panel of the 2013 Man…
EU ebook pricing and The Lord of the Rings
It might be due to the fact I’ve watched the movies far too many times, or perhaps some inherent nerd gene I was born with,…
BookMachine’s NY Premier: Digital, Digital, Digital! [REVIEW]
This is a guest post from Ellen Jacob, who is a long-time children’s publishing veteran. She now heads up jacob packaged goods/bookerella creating children’s book-apps…
BookMachine NYC – by Elisabeth Watson of Publishing Trendsetter [REVIEW]
This is a guest post from Elisabeth Watson, who writes about international publishing for Publishing Trends and is the founder and editor of Publishing Trends’…
William Boyd reveals more details of new Bond novel
Hey, you know who hasn’t taken all the money yet? James Bond. True, the recently released Skyfall – the 23rd of the film series featuring…
Angela Carter takes ‘best of’ James Tait Black award
Cast your mind back a ways, if you will – no, further back… STOP! too far back – specifically to October of this year, and…
BookMachine Oxford – by Helen Tozer [REVIEW]
Helen is a ‘Teen fiction fiend’. She works as a Sales and Marketing Assistant for McGraw-Hill Education by day and is a rugby player and…
Futurebook 2012: For the Love of Data
Last week was the Futurebook Conference 2012, run by The Bookseller – a must-attend for most of the publishing industry that goes well beyond the…
BookMachine Oxford – by Katie Stileman [REVIEW]
Katie Stileman has recently graduated from Jesus College, Oxford, where she studied Medieval History. She has worked in schools since the summer teaching study skills…
