Trends in children’s publishing: Interview with Charlotte Eyre
Charlotte Eyre is Children’s Editor at The Bookseller, covering the UK children’s and YA book market. She is also chair of the @YABookPrize, and programmes the annual Bookseller…
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How agents handle rejection: Juliet Pickering interview
Juliet Pickering is an agent at Blake Friedmann, representing a list of both fiction and non-fiction authors. Her interests range from literary to bookclub fiction,…
7 things your editor wants you to know
This is a guest post by Emma Smith. Emma is an editor for Trapeze, a new commercial fiction and non-fiction imprint at Orion. Working on…
Where we read what: UK regions and their reading habits
While most popular books tend to have their sales spread throughout the country, I always find it interesting to look at how sales differ when…
Curation: Interview with Michael Bhaskar
Michael Bhaskar is a writer, researcher, digital publisher and Co-Founder of Canelo. Here we interviewed him on his new book, Curation: The Power of Selection in a World…
Free Nielsen key findings report: The UK Children’s & YA Book Consumer
Since 2012, Nielsen Book UK has undertaken a Children’s Deep-Dive Study each summer to investigate children’s book reading and buying habits in the context of…
The crowdfunding publisher: David Roche interview
David Roche has been on the boards of HarperCollins, BookTrust, Waterstones and HMV, and was CEO of Borders and Books etc. He now runs his…
What makes a bestseller?
Jonny Geller is a literary agent and joint CEO of Curtis Brown. Here he follows up with some thoughts following a recent Tedx talk he…
The business of books: Defying classification
This week’s guest in The Extraordinary Business Book Club house was Patrick McGinnis, author of The 10% Entrepreneur: Live Your Dream Without Quitting Your Day…
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…
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…
All the facts and stats from the UK Children’s Summit
For the first time this year, Nielsen Book held a UK Children’s Summit at London Book Fair, covering the incredible growth we’ve seen in Children’s…
6 mistakes to avoid when diversifying published content
The theory of diversifying published content is well-established among publishers in the modern industry. We all know that stories can be told in many different…
On serialising content
The Pigeonhole is a made-for-mobile digital book club, serialising their books in instalments delivered straight to a reader’s virtual bookshelf on the iOS app or…
Women in Comics: are we failing to recognise female creators?
One of the world’s biggest comic-book festivals, Angoulême, made the headlines earlier this year when it failed to include any women in their 30-strong shortlist for the…
