Sainsobii vs Wamazon: Battle of the Bookseller Titans
Last week, a new alliance between supermarket Sainsbury’s and social reading site aNobii rocked the publishing world. As I’ve said before, aNobii have been ramping…
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BookMachine Weekly BookWrap: publishing stories from around the web
This week on the site, our Monday column argued that sometimes Your Innovation Ain’t All That. We then saw The elderly get techy with iPads,…
Gravity’s Kindle: Thomas Pynchon’s back catalogue digitised at last
In what hopefully isn’t a portent of his impending death, Thomas Pynchon has joined the likes of Ray Bradbury in finally consenting to have his…
The elderly get techy with iPads – Part 1
David and Marjorie are in their late 80’s, both are retired teachers. (David a maths teacher and Marjorie a music teacher) They love socialising, meeting…
Publishing goes to the dogs in early Christmas slate announcements
Remember those halcyon days of late 2011? When we were all getting so excited about Christmas, because of all the meerkat books Santa was going…
BookMachine Oxford (hosted by Osprey Group) – 28th June [EVENT]
BookMachine Oxford (hosted by Osprey Group) Thursday, June 28, 2012 at 5:30 PM All Bar One, 124 High Street, OX1 4DF Oxford BookMachine…
Your Innovation Ain’t All That
or The Future of Storytelling Might Not Be So Fancy Two weeks ago, a friend of mine, knowing my penchant for all things techy and…
‘I wrote, at noon or 3:00 A.M. So as not to be dead’: RIP Ray Bradbury
In what is fast proving to be a bad year for beloved, revered authors who have shaped the minds of entire generations, Ray Bradbury died…
What Can the US Teach the UK About Children’s Non-Fiction?
This is a guest post from Margaret Eckel, who is a freelance PR Co-ordinator. You can find her on Linkedin. Recently, I wrote a…
Tell us what you think, and enter our prize draw [SURVEY]
What do you think about BookMachine? We’ve been up and running for over 18 months now and would love to know. If you click here and spend…
In Brightest Gay: DC Comics outs Green Lantern
It’s a jarring moment when you first realise there aren’t any gay superheroes in the mainstream (i.e. an Avenger or some kind of -man with…
The Odd Couple: Bundling Print and Digital Books
Last week, after my observation that Waterstones is not in a better position to offer bundling now than it was last year, I had a…
BookMachine Weekly BookWrap: publishing stories from around the web
This week on BookMachine, we kicked things off with the The ABC of Waterstones: A Bookseller’s ‘Promised Land’ and 5 questions for Carolyn Jess Cooke,…
5 questions for Rebecca Swift of The Literary Consultancy [INTERVIEW]
Rebecca Swift is Director of The Literary Consultancy, which she co – founded in 1996. The TLC is first and foremost an editorial consultancy for writers…
This week in literary prizes: uh, all of them, apparently
Big week for literary prizewinners, particularly if you’re funny, a woman writing in English and/or a resident of the Commonwealth who’s done an especially good…
