Free Nielsen key findings report: The UK Children’s & YA Book Consumer
Since 2012, Nielsen Book UK has undertaken a Children’s Deep-Dive Study each summer to investigate children’s book reading and buying habits in the context of…
Book Publishing Business
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It pays to work in independent publishing
Ahead of BookMachine’s event on pay and working conditions in publishing, the Independent Publishers Guild’s chief executive Bridget Shine looks at working life in the…
Why publishers must love and understand their customer
Tom Chalmers is the Managing Director of Legend Times, a group of five publishing companies he has founded. He has been shortlisted and longlisted for…
Book fair survey results are in
This month BookMachine and Frankfurt Book Fair ran a survey to find out more about your behaviour and opinions about book fairs. The winner received…
Startup snapshot: Books & Magic
Mark Folkenberg is the Founder and CEO of Books & Magic. After years as a professional game developer, Mark and his team have spent the…
Startup Snapshot: Book Sprints
Adam Hyde is the founder of the Book Sprints methodology, Co-Founder of the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation, and a current Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow. He also founded…
The Zoella Book Club: interview with Amy Alward
Earlier this month WHSmith launched Zoella’s Book Club in partnership with blogger and vlogger Zoe. Here Norah Myers interviews Amy Alward, one of the eight…
Four players in the book business with the power to rewrite some of the rules
The news came recently that ReaderLink has purchased Anderson News. Those two companies have been the leading suppliers of books to the mass merchandisers: primarily Wal-mart,…
The business of books: The lean author
Recently in The Extraordinary Business Book Club I interviewed Brant Cooper, author of The Lean Entrepreneur (Wiley, 2013). I’m a big fan of lean methodology,…
Are yEUr rights protected? Workers’ rights and the EU
Following the EU referendum and ahead of our July event with Unite the Union, ‘United, We Publish: Your pay – your say?‘, Jasmin Kirkbride summarises current workers’ rights…
How to work with publishers: 8 tips for freelancers
Following on from our tips for publishers working with freelancers, freelancers need to be able to see things from the publisher’s point of view too.…
Here’s where innovative publishers need to focus
There are a number of key attributes successful publishers will be known for in the future. These core capabilities will be very different from the…
How to work with freelancers: 8 tips for publishers
Whether you are working as a freelance or in-house, the publishing world relies on great communication, specialist skills and not a small amount of stress.…
The business of books: Only connect
At the launch of BookMachine’s Snapshots III I kicked off the talks by raining hard on the book industry parade. (Sorry.) While I was on…
Your pay – your say: Gareth Lowe interview
Gareth Lowe is the Chair of Unite’s National Publishing and Media Branch and works as Publishing Programme Manager for DK, part of Penguin Random House. Gareth will…
