BookMachine Weekly BookWrap: publishing stories from around the web
Over the past couple of weeks on BookMachine, we’ve been pondering: Should Publishers care about Pinterest, why the Exponential growth of Indian book market somehow…
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Jackie Collins looking to strike it Bitch with self-publishing
Hyper-glossy word-pimp Jackie Collins has announced in an interview with Galley Cat that she will follow her fellow mega-sellers J.K. Rowling and Stephen King into…
Diagram Prize shortlist immediately renders all other awards irrelevant by dint of insanity
Disregard the Booker nominees. Forget the Nobel. The Pullitzer? Pfft. The shortlist has been announced for the only vaguely literary award that matters: the Diagram…
Publishers with developers? New jobs in an old business.
Tuesday last was the Society of Young Publishers’ career speed dating evening, which I was invited to appear at as a digital expert. Basically, a group…
Exponential growth of Indian book market somehow involves Jeffrey Archer
Any UK publishers currently working up a mild sweat at the state of the industry should maybe consider a sojourn in the east: figures released…
The tweets are coming from inside the house: R.L. Stine publishes short story on Twitter
Picture the scene: you’ve made it to the end of the horror movie. Someone’s been killing off every element of traditional publishing one by one,…
Should publishers care about Pinterest (even if it’s annoying)?
I saw that donut meme about social media for the first time last week and had a good laugh at the reductive accuracy of the whole thing…
BookMachine Weekly BookWrap: publishing stories from around the web
On the site this week, we were Writing the book on fashion, arguing that the term ‘Legacy Publisher’ Is Not A Thing, and reporting on…
Writing the book on fashion: Novels as clothing
Honduran designer Carlos Campos debuted his autumn line this past weekend at New York Fashion Week, claiming that he took inspiration from Gabriel García Márquez’s…
This means war: Foyles now selling ebooks
Sticking an ever so dignified and respectable two fingers up at Amazon, beloved London bookseller Foyles has this week launched an ebook store and accompanying…
Bad Language: ‘Legacy Publisher’ Is Not A Thing
Legacy publishing is not a thing. Sorry, maybe it’s this thing. But in the context of the publishing industry, supplanting the word ‘house’ or ‘printed’ for…
BookMachine Weekly BookWrap: publishing stories from around the web
On the digital front this week, there were Nine truths about e-book publishing, 5 Career Tips to Survive Publishing’s Digital Shift?, and there was good…
Adapt or try: Gatsby on stage, the canon in comics
The adaptation of a book into another medium is a deceptively tricky thing to do well. Make sure every last letter survives the transposition and…
The Alliance of Independent Authors stares down publishing industry and Justice League too, probably
Further underlining that the publishing industry is currently in a similar position to that of the music industry a decade ago, this week brings news…
A Short Love Letter to Libraries
On National Libraries Day (February 4th) when we’re supposed to show our love for our local by visiting and getting out some books, I went…
