BookMachine Oxford (hosted by Macmillan Education) – 6th September [EVENT]
BookMachine is coming to Oxford! If you work in publishing and live in Oxford, we’re pleased to say that the social committee at Macmillan Education will be…
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Rise of the Machines: Amazon e-book sales pass print
It’s a moment everyone always knew was coming, and it’s finally here: Amazon said yesterday that sales of Kindle downloads have officially sailed past print…
Bring Your Own Technology
We keep hearing that America is a few years ahead of us in terms of technology. If this is the case then UK Publishers, Schools…
Price Set by Dice Roll and Other Book Promo Tools
Last week there was a bit of a furore in the publishing world after a Guardian journalist Ewan Morrison slated social media promotion by self published…
BookMachine Weekly BookWrap: publishing stories from around the web
On BookMachine over the past couple of weeks it was all Fitba, Shades and Gray as Cargo announced three new signings, there were 6 Questions for…
Fifty Shades beats Harry Potter into submission on Amazon
Yes, yes, it’s another post about another sales record broken by Fifty Shades of Grey, but look: we’ll stop reporting on it just as soon…
So They’re Making Another Hobbit Film Now
In further news of literary adaptations being stretched as far as they can go in the name of fidelity, as long as fidelity is what…
BookMachine Edinburgh – 17th August [EVENT]
Friday, August 17, 2012 at 6:00 PM Carter’s Bar, 185 Morrison Street, EH3 8DZ, Edinburgh BookMachine is a regular drinks social for publishing folks and…
Steidl launches book-scented perfume, because that’ll help
To be filed under Things That Will Definitely Save The Publishing Industry, No Questions Asked: stern-sounding independent publishing house Steidl is now selling Paper Passion,…
Fitba, Shades and Gray: Cargo announces three new signings
When last we checked in with the young upstarts currently fomenting a Scottish literary revolution at Cargo Publishing, they were sticking two fingers up to…
Publish! New players, new innovations [REPORT]
Last night publishers and innovators poured into St Brides’s to discuss how people in publishing and media can take advantage of technological innovation. A range…
BookMachine Weekly BookWrap: publishing stories from around the web
On BookMachine this week, a Seven Figure Book Deal Proves Talent Beats Data, Summer reading scheme is Olympics of the mind, say sport-fearing kids, we…
Winner of Eyewear’s inaugural Melita Hume Poetry Prize announced
The inaugural year for both the Melita Hume Poetry Prize and its organisers, the recently-founded London-based outfit Eyewear Publishing, has seen the first award go…
ELT Teachers can become authors [INTERVIEW]
Continuing with the theme from my last post for BookMachine on interesting English Language Teaching (ELT) Publishing start-ups, I interviewed Karen Spiller, freelance ELT project…
Summer reading scheme is Olympics of the mind, say sport-fearing kids
Providing, as ever, a safe haven for the assorted freaks and geeks left feeling ostracised by this summer’s patriotically charged displays of physical activity and…
