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…
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Paulo Coelho wants you to steal his books, and also love each other and stuff
The Guardian points to a post on the blog of Paulo Coelho – multi-million selling author of The Alchemist and beloved of that guy you…
Scribblings on the Margins: Cargo brings second year of festival to Glasgow
Anyone paying even cursory attention to the Scottish literary scene at the moment knows that the most exciting publisher around is Cargo. From humble beginnings,…
Amazon and the Dramatic Unmask
The Dramatic Unmask is something well-known in superhero or crime television shows where a villain or hero decides, or is forced, to reveal their true…
On 23rd February… BookMachine is back
It’s been said, that it’s the most fun you can have in publishing with your clothes on.* It’s been said, that if you can talk…
Building the publishers of the future
Anna Faherty is a lecturer on the MA Publishing at Kingston University and a freelance writer, editor and consultant. She’s currently working on a…
In Waterstones Piccadilly, books read you
Picture the scene: it’s February 2012. You’re in Waterstones in Piccadilly. You’re wandering around, browsing aimlessly, not really focusing on one thing or the other.…
Scotland’s National Book Town blooms in the Spring [FEATURE]
This is a guest post from Arundati Dandapani, who is halfway through an MLitt in Publishing Studies degree at University of Stirling. She has…
Real-world Quidditch as silly as it sounds
A disclaimer, upfront: it’s great that J.K. Rowling has sparked the imaginations of so many children in the 15 years (!) since the initial publication…
Self-Publishing: Us vs Us?
Here’s a lesson in how to sink an already flooded market: create a piece of software where publishing is as easy as clicking a button,…
BookMachine Weekly BookWrap: publishing stories from around the web
Today we’re mostly talking about Apple’s announcement on education yesterday. Are Apple set to shake up textbook publishing with iBooks 2 and iTunes U? And…
Just like you, Cormac McCarthy procrastinates; unlike you, he does it by writing a screenplay
See the man. He is talented and celebrated, he writes celebrated and prize-winning novels. He stokes the slow publishing news day. He – wait, before…
Waterstones takes time out from angering pedants to attempt to sell some books
Believe it or not, given certain recent events, Waterstones does not exist just to wind up the members of the Apostrophe Protection Society (what do…
The Importance of being Search Engine Optimised
…and also having content. If you’re working in publishing or working on a novel and you don’t know what SEO means then you probably…
McDonald’s to solve mind obesity with Morpurgo book giveaway
Having apparently taken one look at the nation’s increasingly obese children and let out a long, sad sigh of impotent culpability, McDonald’s is now aiming…
