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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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