Want to win a book industry award?
Winning awards won’t make you rich, and it may not help you sell books. But It will spruce up your CV, massage your ego immensely,…
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Challenges facing scholarly publishing [Charlie Rapple Interview]
Ahead of this Thursday’s event in Oxford, Scholarly Publishing: Crossing the Rubicon, we interview Charlie Rapple about changes facing scholarly publishing. Charlie is Sales & Marketing…
Audio publishing: Common misconceptions
Louise Newton is an Audio Assistant at Little, Brown Book Group, and works across all imprints at Little, Brown on fiction and non-fiction titles. Louise is…
Using social media to find new clients
How to start? You have a Twitter account, are active on Facebook, have a LinkedIn presence and a website, but you need these to work…
Inclusive language: 3 rules for editorial best practice
While the details of any book are important to get right, books about personal or sensitive topics require an extra level of attention to ensure…
5 ways to perfect your pre-launch publicity campaign
Digital reading platform The Pigeonhole have launched a competition with Pan Macmillan, giving 500 winners early access to a serialized exclusive of Ken Follett’s latest…
5 author tips for briefing your designer
Stuart Bache is Art Director of Books Covered, a design agency for publishers, independent authors and literary agents. Here he shares his top tips for authors briefing…
3 ways to be excellent on social media
Whether you’re a publisher, indie author or editor, it’s likely that using social media will be part of your engagement strategy. Perhaps you want to…
Amazon: How to get your book to appear alongside the Best Sellers [Winning blog idea July]
Each month BookMachine offers a community member, with great ideas, the chance to write on the site. July’s winner was Richard McCartney, with his tips on…
Which social media channel sells the most books?
“Which one social media channel will net me the most book sales?” an author asked me recently during my new weekly #BookMarketingChat.
10 tips for building a freelance business website
If you don’t yet have an online presence, in the form of even a simple website, then it’s time to consider setting one up. It…
FutureBook … or FutureRead? Fostering the next generation of readers
Sheila Bounford has worked in service businesses connected to the publishing industry for thirty years. A former Executive Director of the IPG, Head of Business…
Editorial freelancers, know when to say no
We’re in the business of saying yes … but just as important can be knowing when to say no – some projects may just be…
BookMachine July Wrap: Publishing stories from around the web
This month in publishing news, it’s been all about the publisher’s best friend: the indie bookshop! The 2017 Independent Bookshop Week got well underway towards…
Amazon’s Whole Foods acquisition is about so much more than groceries
Yes, the grocery business is huge. And while it’s one of several industries Amazon hasn’t yet dominated, there’s something way more significant about their acquisition…
