Startup snapshot: Reedsy
Emmanuel Nataf is the CEO and Co-Founder of Reedsy, a community of publishing professionals creating amazing books. Here we interviewed him to catch-up with Reedsy developments.
Book Publishing Business
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Matching business growth with the right tech
This is a guest post by Matt Goolding. Matt is Head of Digital Marketing at Ribbonfish, a London-based tech company that builds enterprise solutions for the…
Intellectual property is a serious subject
This is a guest post from Tom Chalmers, Managing Director at IPR License, on the importance of IP and copyright to publishers now. Intellectual property (IP)…
Publishing on the move: unions and the EU referendum
This is a guest post by Douglas Williamson on EU referendum, unions and publishing. Douglas is design manager at Macmillan ELT. He started his career at Butterworth…
Countdown to The London Book Fair
This is a guest post by Isheeta Mustafi, Editorial Director at RotoVision in Brighton. RotoVision is part of The Quarto Group’s co-edition arm, so rights…
The Pigeonhole: Serialised, sociable and gamified reading
The Pigeonhole provides readers with serialised, sociable and gamified content. They can join public reading groups or create their own private ones, and save, highlight…
10 tips for avoiding a riot on your book fair stand
In the run up to The London Book Fair 2016, we ran a series of posts on how to make the most of your visit to…
The business book (r)evolution: the growth spiral
For most of my working life I’ve been involved in some way with the reinvention of the book – the technical, commercial and creative aspects…
Ten lessons I’ve learned in ten years as a freelancer
Charlie Wilson is a freelance ghostwriter, book editor and proofreader, trading as Landmark Editorial. Her book How to Succeed as a Freelancer in Publishing, co-authored with Emma Murray,…
Kindle Instant Preview reinforces Amazon’s dominance
Ebook preview widgets have been around for quite awhile but when was the last time you saw one on a blog or website? I can’t…
Author-pays publishing: Sarah Barlow Scott interview
Sarah Barlow Scott is the founder of Barlow Books, a team of freelance editors, and experts in design, production and marketing. The team run their…
Getting found in translation
In 2015 there was a much needed push for works in translation. In October Amazon announced it was making a $10m (£6.5m) investment in AmazonCrossing…
Seven tips for powering through permissions
After spending the past few months sourcing over 90 works of fiction, non-fiction and art for inclusion in Wellcome Collection’s new anthology, States of Mind:…
Bootstrapping your book
There are basically three ways to start a business. You can use your own private fortune, you can pitch to investors for funding, or you…
Colouring-in books: not the novel idea now
Returning from the Christmas holidays it seemed as if the whole of twitter and his dog had a shiny new adult colouring-in book except for…
