On outsourcing and adapting to changes in Academic publishing
To celebrate Academic Book Week, we’re running a series of posts on Academic Publishing. This is a guest post by Zeba Talkhani who works for production…
Book Production & Operations
Discover emerging tools and services for book publishers and hear from leading Production and Operations Directors about what works for them.
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…
Five things they know about XML that you don’t
This is a guest post from Emily and Nic Gibson. They are both directors of Corbas Consulting Ltd and each have over 15 years’ publishing…
How to create a catalogue automatically using ONIX and InDesign
This is a guest post from Emma Barnes. Emma is co-founder of General Products, and indie publisher Snowbooks. General Products is the company behind FutureBook-award-winning…
10 tips for better book designs
This is a guest post from Thomas Bohm. Thomas studied graphic communication, and now works for book publishers and businesses, whilst running User Design, Illustration…
Roca Editorial discuss ebook strategies [INTERVIEW]
This is an interview with Blanca Rosa Roca, speaker at BookMachine Barcelona on 26th February. Blanca (@RocaEditorial) is the founder and director of Roca Editorial,…
Time to bury the ISBN?
This is a guest post from Ricardo Fayet. Ricardo is an avid reader and startup enthusiast who has been studying the publishing industry with interest…
A non-technical, beginners’ guide to ONIX for Books
This is a guest post from Emma Barnes and Rob Jones. Emma and Rob are co-founders of General Products Ltd, and indie publisher Snowbooks. General…
So you think you are due a pay rise?
This is a guest post from Suzanne Collier, who is described as THE person to see if you want to get ahead in book publishing.…
Three things I learned that made working in publishing bearable
This is a guest post from Carl Pappenheim, owner of Spineless Classics about Working in Publishing Publishing is comfortably the most glamorous and educational industry…
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.…
Advance Editions puts final draft in readers’ hands
This week sees the launch of Advance Editions, a platform for crowdsourced editing allowing readers early access to soon-to-be-published books in the hope that they’ll…
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.…
