Not The End of The World – January publishing off to a good start
It’s pretty well documented that January is the most depressing month of the year if you live in the UK. We’ve got nothing to look…
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BookMachine Weekly BookWrap: publishing stories from around the web
This week, there was a look at How e-reading changes reading habits, but it was heartening to hear that Humans are hardwired to read books.…
Notes from the Underground: An interview with Chris Gilson
A few weeks back, we reported on an initiative spearheaded by one Chris Gilson that would see the introduction of book swapping facilities at London…
Publishing Will Eat Itself: The books BookMachine got for Christmas
Welcome to 2012. While you’re waiting for the publishing world to get back into…
Jamie Oliver rallies nation against meerkat threat to take Christmas number one
Despite the earlier reported best efforts of 16 separate publishers, this year’s Christmas bestsellers list has not, in fact, been dominated by the cute and…
BookMachine Edinburgh (hosted by Bright Red Publishing) – Tonight!
This is our first ever Christmas party in Edinburgh, and while we can’t say for sure that it’ll be greatest publishing shindig of our times,…
Why I work in publishing
Sarah Cullington is Acquisition Editor at Packt Publishing This is definitely an exciting time to work in the publishing industry. It seems that…
Grown-up publishing
Claire Vinent is Lead Content & Publishing Manager at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. You can follow her on Twitter (@clairevinent). So ‘working in publishing’…
6 publishing predictions for 2012 from Dean Johnson
Last year I took a stab at 6 key publishing predictions for the year ahead. How did I do? Well, my hit rate was pretty…
Pin the hope on the meerkat: It’s Christmas 2011 and this is apparently where we’re at
The Guardian’s piece on the ‘quirky’ titles expected to make a dent in this year’s Christmas bestsellers list makes for a sobering read. Less than…
So Bad It’s Good: Hatchet Job Of The Year
Even if the prize for this competition wasn’t a year’s supply of potted shrimp, I still would have loved The Omnivore’s Hatchet Job of the…
Book swaps proposed for Tube: A new, exciting way to catch swine flu
In a turn of events that many (well, some. A couple. I.) already consider a Christmas miracle, left-leaning broadsheet The Guardian and Tory London mayor…
‘Is there editing anymore?’ A Failure to Communicate
I would like to say that I walked away from last week’s FutureBook conference filled with the confidence that, as Dominique Racca of Sourcebooks believes,…
This week in flame-fanning: Downton Abbey star on Booker 2012 panel
Cast your mind back a few weeks to the creation of the Literature Prize. The what? The Literature Prize. Remember? It was set up in…
Publishing Now: The Golden Age [REPORT]
Tahira Rahemtulla is one of the City University project leaders for Publishing Now 2011. A week on from the big event, Tahira reports on happenings…
