Dutch startup Sweek welcomes 100,000th user
Sweek, a platform for free reading and writing, welcomed its 100,000th user last week, since the official launch at the Frankfurt Book Fair seven months…
Multi-platform
Here’s another way digital could complement print
As I’ve said before, the publishing industry needs to get beyond the current “print or digital” mindset and instead explore ways for one to complement…
Startup Snapshot: Squirl
Jef Van der Avoort is co-founder of Squirl, the first location-based book discovery app. Previously he helped brands like LEGO, Philips and Hasbro to create engaging…
Which digital book format has the most growth potential?
The answer might surprise you… Amazon’s Kindle format dominates the ebook market today and it’s easy to assume that will remain the case going forward.…
Roundup of the Westminster Media Forum Keynote Seminar
Abbie Headon is Commissioning and Digital Development Editor at Summersdale Publishers, and a BookMachine Board Member (representing the Editorial Channel). I was lucky enough last week to…
What a real ‘audiobook’ revolution would look like
Richard Brooks is a Researcher at Coventry University and the Project Manager of the Arts and Humanity Research Council project ‘Hidden Story’. At the recent…
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…
Here’s what book publishers can learn from the podcast model
Did you make the same mistake I did and assume podcasts are yesterday’s platform, that interest in them has plateaued (at best) and they’re not…
Marketing tips for improving the bottom line (in the wake of the EU referendum)
I don’t know about you, but I found the article in The Independent about job vacancy adverts falling by 700,000 the week after the referendum…
Smart phones: Changing the rules of the game
Jacob Cockcroft is Co-Founder and CEO of The Pigeonhole, a made-for-mobile digital book club, serialising their books in installments delivered straight to a reader’s virtual bookshelf on the…
Startup snapshot: Books & Magic
Mark Folkenberg is the Founder and CEO of Books & Magic. After years as a professional game developer, Mark and his team have spent the…
Here’s where innovative publishers need to focus
There are a number of key attributes successful publishers will be known for in the future. These core capabilities will be very different from the…
7 ways to create a premium edition of your book with iBooks Author
iBooks Author is Apple’s digital publishing software, used today to create digital books of all kinds. A great strategy on how to use iBooks Author…
It’s all gone a bit dead: 6 steps for reviving a stalled crowdfunding campaign
Jimmy Leach is, amongst other things, head of crowdfunding at Unbound. Here are his 6 steps for reevaluating and reviving a crowdfunding campaign. It happens to…
The business of books: 3 publishing trends
This week’s guest on The Extraordinary Business Book Club podcast was Rachel Bridge, journalist, speaker and author of Ambition: Why It’s Good to Want More…
