Smart, scalable and responsible print production [Heather O’Connell interview]
Heather O’Connell has more than 20 years experience in the publishing industry and worked her way up from controller to senior management positions at Penguin…
Ebook and digital production
Contract proofing: why adopt the latest profiles?
Jamie Robinson has been at f1 colour for 24 years, rising through the ranks to Managing Director. Over that time his passion for colour and…
The top 10 most useful ebook writing software
The age of handwriting your ebook and typing it up later is long gone. While I am a lover of beautiful stationery, an ebook writing software can be much more useful.
How to share advance copies of ebooks to those without a suitable device
I was talking to a customer about their ebook publishing programme last week and heard that they are looking for a simple way to send…
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…
Startup snapshot: Exact Editions
Having spent the past decade turning complex consumer magazines into their precise digital doppelgangers, Exact Editions launched their new digital books service in May. Here we…
What’s your flavour?: Selecting the right XML for your content
This is a guest post from Emily Gibson and Nic Gibson. They are both directors of Corbas Consulting Ltd and each have over 20 years’ publishing experience,…
The lost art of indexes in ebooks
When was the last time you used an index in an ebook? Maybe the better question is this: Have you ever used an index in…
Reading aloud: merging audio and text just got a lot easier
You may know that the modern EPUB3 standard has an inbuilt ability to hold audio and video, but one of the most intriguing aspects of…
Picturing the future of the book
This is a guest post from Alison Jones. Alison is a business and executive coach, content consultant and publisher. After a 23-year career in trade…
5 Questions for Miral Sattar from Bibliocrunch [INTERVIEW]
Host of November’s BookMachine NYC, Bree Weber, talks to speaker on the night Miral Sattar, founder of BiblioCrunch. Grab your tickets for BookMachine NYC here.…
How publishing for different devices impacts design [SPONSORED POST]
Many design companies, like us here at HL Studios, come from a print or web-based background and have had to do some serious upgrading (of…
50 Years of Book Production
David Bann has worked in production at Penguin, Rainbird and, most recently, Michael O’Mara Books. Here he takes a look back at the dramatic changes…
The benefits of animation for educational publishers [VIEWPOINT]
This is a guest post from Nicola Esson of HL Studios, sponsors of BookMachine Oxford, happening this Thursday 6th September at the Ashmolean Dining Room.…