Savvy business snapshot: Nordisk Books
Duncan James Lewis founded Nordisk Books in February 2016. The first book (Havoc by Tom Kristensen) to be released on October 6th, with two more…
Book Marketing and Publicity
Stay up to date on the latest book marketing and publicity techniques. This Topic covers strategies for reaching readers and working with publicists.
Why small publishers sell more books with Nielsen Book2Look
Small independent publishers and self-published authors need to maximize the impact of their books and ensure they are easily found on the Internet. Ralph Möllers,…
10 tips for authors to up their book marketing skills
Rachel Thompson is a bestselling author, and a social media and author marketing/branding consultant (BadRedheadMedia). Here she shares her top 10 tips for author self-marketing. Many authors are…
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…
Startup Snapshot: Scriggler
Dmitry Selemir was once a physicist and hedge fund rocket scientist PM, and is now the founder and CEO of Scriggler.com, ‘the Soundcloud of writing platforms‘.…
iAuthor launches book sampling tool
iAuthor, the book discovery platform, launches LitSampler 2.0 today. Here iAuthor’s founder, Adam Kolczynski, tells us more. What is LitSampler 2.0? LitSampler 2.0 is iAuthor’s…
Engaging new readers using Nielsen Book2Look widgets
Julia How co-founded The Witcherley Book Company in 2013. They now have a list of over 50 titles in an expanding catalogue, mainly covering puzzle books…
10 lessons from BIC’s New Trends in Publishing Seminar
Attending an event on ‘new trends’ seems apt at this time, just as everyone is ramping up on their Frankfurt preparation. We took away much…
Startup Snapshot: Shelfie (A.K.A. Shazam for bookworms…)
Peter Hudson is the co-founder of Shelfie. The idea for Shelfie came out of an argument Peter was having with his friend Dan in a…
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,…
Savvy business snapshot: Bookspeed
Bookspeed specialise in building the perfect range of books and gifts for retailers. Lewis Dawson is Commercial Director and is responsible for all buying and…
From publishing to pioneer: Crystal Mahey-Morgan interview
Crystal Mahey-Morgan is Founder at OWN IT! Entertainment Limited. OWN IT! is a storytelling lifestyle brand, telling stories across books, music, fashion and film. At…
Award-winning book blogs: Amber Kirk-ford interview
Amber Kirk-Ford is a 17 year old book blogger who aspires to work in journalism and/or publishing, and dreams of one day seeing her own work…
How important are ISBNs?
This is a guest post by Karina Luke. Karina was appointed as BIC’s Executive Director in February 2012 and has been instrumental in its restructure,…
Nielsen ISBN store a hit
After nearly 50 years of promoting and selling ISBNs and prefixes to publishers in the UK & Ireland via a manual process, Nielsen has launched…
