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    Melissa J. Davies

    Hatching a brand-new bookshop: interview with Pigeon Books

    Melissa J. Davies describes the origin story of Pigeon Books, currently Southsea’s tiniest bookshop. It’s a pop-up shop at the moment, and hopes to have…

    Melissa J. Davies July 26, 2019

    The importance of covers in commercial fiction

    Phoebe Morgan is an editor at HarperCollins specialising in commercial crime, thrillers and women’s fiction. She is also an author and her first book, The…

    Phoebe Morgan July 24, 2017

    Tips for running a bookshop event

    Sheila O’Reilly is the Events Manager Village Bookshop in Dulwich Village. She is a bookseller with over 18 years’ experience of running bookshops and author…

    Sheila O'Reilly May 24, 2017

    Death of digital overstated in recent report

    The Publishers Association numbers show consumer ebook sales have collapsed by 17 per cent, but physical book sales are up by 8 per cent[1]. The media took…

    Tom Grayson May 15, 2017

    Behind the scenes at Blackwell’s: What publishers can learn from a bookselling icon

    Last week I was lucky enough to receive a VIP behind-the-scenes tour of Blackwell’s flagship store in Broad Street, Oxford. The point of the exercise,…

    Abbie Headon April 19, 2017

    Heffers bookshop: Nominate your most characterful bookseller or customer [winning blog idea November]

    Each month BookMachine offers a community member, with great ideas, the chance to write on the site. This month, publisher and author of ‘This book…

    Julie E Bounford December 13, 2016
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    BookGig: The ‘publisher agnostic’ initiative launched by HarperCollins

    A new initiative hit the book world this week: BookGig, ‘all the events from the authors you love’. What’s interesting about that? Well, it’s one…

    Alison Jones October 12, 2016
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    10 tips for bookselling from the shop floor

    Chicken and Frog Bookshop is the only independent children’s bookshop in Essex. The family owned and run store opened its doors in October 2012. We…

    Natasha Radford October 6, 2016

    Seth Godin’s three charges against publishers

    “As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers, so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.” – Cyril Connolly Publisher-bashing is…

    Alison Jones September 30, 2016
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    Startup snapshot: Read Dog

    Kate Cygan and Michael Wray are an entrepreneurial minded couple with insatiable reading habits. They recently moved to Denver, CO and are working on visiting…

    Kate Cygan and Michael Wray September 28, 2016

    Why small publishers sell more books with Nielsen Book2Look

    Small independent publishers and self-published authors need to maximize the impact of their books and ensure they are easily found on the Internet. Ralph Möllers,…

    Ralph Möllers September 28, 2016

    What can publishers learn from Pokemon Go?

    Long considered nothing more than a gimmicky fad, it turns out that augmented reality (AR) is actually alive and well. At least that’s the case…

    Joe WIkert September 26, 2016

    Savvy business snapshot: Bookspeed

    Bookspeed specialise in building the perfect range of books and gifts for retailers. Lewis Dawson is Commercial Director and is responsible for all buying and…

    Lewis Dawson August 23, 2016

    The Zoella Book Club: interview with Amy Alward

    Earlier this month WHSmith launched Zoella’s Book Club in partnership with blogger and vlogger Zoe. Here Norah Myers interviews Amy Alward, one of the eight…

    Norah June 28, 2016
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    Four players in the book business with the power to rewrite some of the rules

    The news came recently that ReaderLink has purchased Anderson News. Those two companies have been the leading suppliers of books to the mass merchandisers: primarily Wal-mart,…

    Mike Shatzkin June 27, 2016
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