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    Future of Publishing

    Just launched: The new virtual way to work as a team designed exclusively for publishing

    Laura Summers runs BookMachine, our fast-growing global community and agency specialising in book publishing. Our mission is to provide publishing professionals with the knowledge, ideas…

    Laura Summers November 9, 2020

    Black History Month UK: An interview with Abiola Bello and Helen Lewis

    To mark Black History Month in October here in the UK, we chatted to publishing and entrepreneur extraordinaries Abiola Bello and Helen Lewis, founders of Hashtag…

    Abiola Bello and Helen Lewis October 14, 2020

    How to keep your remote publishing teams motivated

    Unprecedented times. Zoom fatigue. A longing to go back to the office. Sound familiar? This year is the year that everything changed and BookMachine has…

    Laura Summers October 5, 2020
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    Lessons from Netflix: How data-driven Marketing can help develop blockbuster books

    Looking back from this era of lockdown binge-watching and couchification, it is easy to forget that there existed a time when streaming behemoth Netflix didn’t…

    Rik Ubhi September 28, 2020
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    Desperately Seeking Susan: How marketing’s pursuit of the ‘ideal consumer’ is bad for diversity and worse for business

    The Ideal Consumer Profile (ICP) has been a persistent and useful marketing mechanism: winnowing down the potential buyer into habits, demographics and needs that the…

    Rik Ubhi September 21, 2020
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    How to make online recruitment work – for candidates and interviewers

    Since lockdown, BookMachine members Inspired Selection have been hard at work, talking to clients and candidates and communicating about changes in recruitment patterns. We are…

    Suzy Astbury July 27, 2020
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    Online book festivals come of age

    If we could have a pound for every time someone has commented on how prophetic we were in launching our virtual book festival venue back…

    Gwyn GB July 20, 2020
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    How do you record an audiobook during lockdown?

    As we all adapt to different ways of working in the current climate, one challenge for Penguin Random House Audio was how to keep recording…

    Helena Sheffield June 8, 2020
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    Win an entire week of exclusive CreativePro training with Circular Software and BookMachine!

    To celebrate the release of a major update to their interactive Ebook and Audiobook software CircularFLO, Circular Software are offering one lucky BookMachine member the chance to…

    Ken Jones May 18, 2020
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    Side Project Summer: part of your pandemic toolkit?

    Well. I didn’t think Side Project Summer II was going to be like this.  I thought we’d be building on the strong foundations of last…

    Emma Barnes May 15, 2020
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    The art of the anthology: interview with Monstrous Regiment Publishing

    We first interviewed Lauren Nickodemus and Ellen Desmond of Monstrous Regiment Publishing two years ago about their use of crowdfunding to support their first book,…

    Lauren Nickodemus and Ellen Desmond April 27, 2020
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    Swap skills not bills: BookMachine launches new initiative in time of coronavirus

    Starting from today, Mondays will be Skill Swap day on BookMachine. The idea is to help our members to discover and offer each other new opportunities in…

    Laura Summers April 20, 2020
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    Tips for managing virtual meetings and events

    How do you make meaningful communication happen in virtual meetings? How can book launches and book fairs bring people together without the real-world behaviour which…

    Laura Summers March 22, 2020
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    Automation is great, but it won’t work for my books…

    The most common feedback from publishers when chatting about automation is the belief that their publications are beyond what automation can do. As a book…

    Damian Gibbs February 3, 2020
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    Get inspired to be more innovative, with the FutureBook BookTech awards

    We’re told that publishing should be more innovative. We get it – innovation will help build a robust industry for the future. But where do…

    Bec Evans November 19, 2019
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