Amazon tires of toying with book shops and libraries, takes on entire publishing industry instead
Having already kneecapped bookshops the world over and walked away with a smirk on its face, oblivious to their cries for help as it gets…
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8 questions for Chris Meade [interview]
Chris Meade is quite the guru when it comes to Creative Writing and New Media. He has now run two major UK literature organisations, the…
WH Smith begins selling e-readers, asks ‘what’s an e-reader?’
You know the Kindle has become truly ubiquitous when even WH Smith has to acknowledge it in some manner. Startled out of its cosy seat…
8 Questions for Kirsten Campbell-Howes [Interview]
Kirsten Campbell-Howes has over ten years experience in bringing e-learning materials from concept through to production. She has been described as having a ‘rare…
BookMachine Weekly BookWrap: publishing stories from around the web
This week has seen plenty publishing happenings at the Frankfurt Book Fair, as Children’s Publishing Goes Digital, there’s Epstein on the future of the publishing industry,…
The Literature Prize Is Tired Of All These Readable Books
The reactionary hand-wringing greeting the news that this year’s Booker nominees have had a better sales boost post-nomination than any other shortlist in the prize’s…
Face Off: Educational versus Trade publishing
The great divide. They are like peas in a pod or oceans apart; really depends on the day and the issue and the speaker. Mike…
Ripe for the picking: Simon & Schuster to rush release Jobs bio
Amongst the flurry of tributes that followed the death of Apple godhead Steve Jobs last Wednesday, one emerged of more questionable taste than most (most,…
Why Copy-Editing Skills is the ideal course for anyone looking to break into publishing…
When I left university I knew I wanted to work in publishing. I jumped straight in and got in touch with The Publishing Training Centre…
BookMachine Weekly BookWrap: publishing stories from around the web
This week in The Higgledy-piggledy Publishing Biz, the UK has another ebook-pedalling juggernaut to join Apple and Amazon, as Google ebooks are now available in…
#BMHour 2: The Legend of Curly’s Gold
Following the success of our inaugural #BMHour on Twitter a couple of weeks ago, we decided to do it again. And lo, like Icarus, our…
8 questions for Alastair Horne [interview]
Alastair Horne (Innovations Manager for Cambridge University Press) is everywhere. On Twitter, at ELT conferences, writing for FutureBook, TOC and at our very own…
Super Thursday 2011, or: Jamie Oliver is here to save the publishing industry (again)
The pre-Christmas sales season is officially (well, ‘officially’ – it’s not like anyone sought out a notary) underway after last week saw the annual arrival…
BookMachine Weekly BookWrap: publishing stories from around the web
This week BookWrap considered simply unleashing a barrage of questionable puns related to a certain product launch this week. But let’s not. There’s much more…
Fire on the Amazon: The Kindle gets an upgrade
It’s already reaching the point where I feel like every other word I use writing these articles is either ‘Amazon’ or ‘Kindle’. Obviously, however, that…
