Getting your book on page 1 of Amazon’s search results [FOR AUTHORS]
As you can imagine, getting on page 1 of Amazon’s search results can be very important. Amazon is the world’s largest search engine and your…
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Tips for making your book a genuine success
Last month Claire Morrison, Senior Marketing Manager at DK, felt passionate enough about our feature Amazon: How to Get Your Book To Appear Alongside the…
What Cory Doctorow taught me about DRM
Cory Doctorow is one of my nominations for Hero of the Internet. He’s an author, activist, journalist, and blogger – he’s co-editor of Boing Boing,…
Top tips for optimizing book discoverability
We’re fortunate to have so many book discovery tools and techniques available to us, but leveraging them effectively can be challenging. In this post I’ll…
Dos and don’ts for using SEO to be a better publisher [Winning blog idea April]
Each month BookMachine offers a community member, with great ideas, the chance to write on the site. April’s winner was Caleb Woodbridge who writes about…
Here’s a better model for book search and discovery
How are you helping consumers find the perfect book for their needs or interests? If you’re like most publishers, you offer a search function on…
A day in the life of a Sales Analyst
Naomi Peel moved from department store retail management to a MA Publishing degree at Kingston University where she developed an interest in data and the…
Metadata expert insights: Jane Rowland
Jane Rowland is the Operations Director of Troubador Publishing. Jane has worked in a variety of roles within the company, including Director of Academic Publishing,…
Metadata expert insights: Azar Hussain
Azar Hussain is Head of Data at Faber & Faber. His key responsibilities include managing the internal and external flow of data and developing and…
The business of books: Why curation beats search
You can’t have failed to notice that there are an awful lot of books around these days. Too many books, some say.[1] ‘Every year there…
Auto-tagging for publishers: taxonomies don’t have to be taxing
This is a guest post by Tom Morris, Chief Technology Officer at publishing and content specialist Ixxus. Here Tom outlines the challenges publishers face with…
5 SEO Tips for Publishers and Authors
This is a guest post by Georgiana Ghiciuc. Georgiana is lead content strategist for Beaglecat, an inbound marketing agency with clients in Austria, Germany and…
Stop building communities. Join one instead.
Gareth Cuddy is CEO of ePubDirect, known as one of the leading experts on eBooks and Digital Publishing in the UK and Ireland. We are…
5 Questions for Brett Sandusky [INTERVIEW]
Brett Sandusky is a maker of things, both digital and physical. He is the founder of bdigitil Media Labs, a consultancy which provides UX, product…
5 Questions for Núria Pérez Olid [INTERVIEW]
GlobalBook is an international project that connects the entire book publishing chain, giving publishers more data about how sales are achieved, and the intelligence to…
