Sainsobii vs Wamazon: Battle of the Bookseller Titans
Last week, a new alliance between supermarket Sainsbury’s and social reading site aNobii rocked the publishing world. As I’ve said before, aNobii have been ramping…
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Your Innovation Ain’t All That
or The Future of Storytelling Might Not Be So Fancy Two weeks ago, a friend of mine, knowing my penchant for all things techy and…
In Brightest Gay: DC Comics outs Green Lantern
It’s a jarring moment when you first realise there aren’t any gay superheroes in the mainstream (i.e. an Avenger or some kind of -man with…
The Odd Couple: Bundling Print and Digital Books
Last week, after my observation that Waterstones is not in a better position to offer bundling now than it was last year, I had a…
The ABC of Waterstones: A Bookseller’s ‘Promised Land’
It’s been a big week in the world of Waterstones. Last Monday, we had the shock announcement that they would be hand-selling Kindles – their…
What we’ve learned from writers on CompletelyNovel – a ‘read-this first’ for self publishers
This is a guest post from Anna Lewis, who co-founded the book technology company CompletelyNovel with Oli Brooks in 2008. Since then, they have created…
Digital rises, print declines, sky blue: Publisher’s Association releases 2011 figures
Time to blow off that screening of The Avengers you were planning on catching this evening, because something far more exciting has come up: statistics,…
Kickstarter: publishing so indie it hurts (in a good way).
Did you ever have a super-indie friend when you were younger? The kind who would have a party catered by his friend who owned a…
How to get your favourite book on your wall; 5 questions for Carl Pappenheim of Spineless Classics [INTERVIEW]
Spineless Classics have hit on a novel concept that’s sure to turn book-worms into an art lovers: you choose a book from their list of…
9 questions for Michael Grant [INTERVIEW]
Michael Grant is a bestselling author of young adult fiction. His Gone series of novels has sold over 150,000 copies in the UK alone. BZRK,…
Inanimate Alice is 9 years old. How’s she doing? [REPORT]
Welcome to the world of Inanimate Alice, a truly digital novel that has taken the educational world by storm. The idea for Alice first came…
Piracy, Authors and Trust
This week I took some time out from sipping a cup of coffee and hitting ‘send’ on an email, and doing various other publisher-related tasks, and…
Publishers with developers? New jobs in an old business.
Tuesday last was the Society of Young Publishers’ career speed dating evening, which I was invited to appear at as a digital expert. Basically, a group…
Bad Language: ‘Legacy Publisher’ Is Not A Thing
Legacy publishing is not a thing. Sorry, maybe it’s this thing. But in the context of the publishing industry, supplanting the word ‘house’ or ‘printed’ for…
Building the publishers of the future
Anna Faherty is a lecturer on the MA Publishing at Kingston University and a freelance writer, editor and consultant. She’s currently working on a…
