Listen up! Audiobooks finally get a standard
Audiobooks are cool. They are so cool that they don’t need no rules. Having worked with ebooks for a long while, where we have had…
Book Production & Operations
Discover emerging tools and services for book publishers and hear from leading Production and Operations Directors about what works for them.
Alice’s Adventures in Alt-Text Land
Down the Rabbit Hole Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do:…
Why Oriel Square use the Agile manifesto and principles to lead projects and work effectively
Many organisations who are not themselves fundamentally or solely digital are interested in how ‘Agile’ might apply to them and their working practices. Many others…
A typesetting goldmine: Peter Kahrel’s online repository of free scripts
At first glance, it may not look like much—but Peter Kahrel’s extensive online repository of free scripts is an essential resource for anyone who works…
Production in practice: a behind-the-scenes tour of Clays
Belle Hinchin and Leyla Yusuf-Strang are Sales Executives at Clays. Together they head up Clays Indie, working with a variety of customers ranging from self-publishers…
BookMachine Unplugged: Talking Production – exploring the world outside Adobe
Wednesday 12 February saw the first BookMachine Unplugged event of 2020, with a packed house filling the Arboretum in Covent Garden. Just as with the…
Just your type – new font formats come to InDesign
The most interesting new feature of InDesign 2020 – the latest major update of our industry standard page layout software from Adobe – was the…
Automation is great, but it won’t work for my books…
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…
88 mentions of Brexit. The election manifestos are published.
We are now halfway though the six-week build-up before the 2019 UK General Election and this is the week that all the major political parties…
The Publishing Machine: How automation makes space for creativity
It is a curious thing, publishing books. I’ve never been sure if it is more art or science; either way, there is no doubt that…
The making of Greta and the Giants: going green in the children’s book industry
When the incredible text of Greta and the Giants landed on our desks, we knew that it wasn’t just an opportunity to publish a great…
