A year in review: Interview with Lara Borlenghi
Lara Borlenghi has been Finance Director at Pan Macmillan for five years. Prior to this, Lara worked for 15 years in a variety of finance roles…
Sales, rights and licensing
How do you know that your rights are alright: interview with Clare Painter
In the run up to next week’s event: How do you know that your rights are alright?, we interviewed Clare Painter, one of our expert…
How to price an ebook [FOR SELF-PUBLISHERS]
Setting the ideal price of your ebook is the final step of self-publishing.
7 tips for success at Frankfurt Book Fair
Thérèse Coen is Rights Director at Hardman & Swainson, and has worked in Translation Rights, both in Publishing and Agencies. She currently divides her time…
How to copyright an ebook: Facts and myths [FOR AUTHORS]
Do you know what’s the difference between DRM, ISBN and copyrights? If your answer is a clear yes, well done, you can stop reading. But…
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.
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…
What Cory Doctorow taught me about DRM
Cory Doctorow is one of my nominations for Hero of the Internet. He’s an author, activist, journalist, and blogger – he’s co-editor of Boing Boing,…
Contracts? Show me the bit about advances and royalties and the rest isn’t worth reading!
Mara Livingstone-McPhail was a bookseller, reviewed books on BBC radio and organized book events in inner-city schools before being lured to London by the team…
A beginner’s guide to negotiating publishing contracts
Contracts? They are the pages of scary legal stuff that someone else deals with, right?
5 things publishers should know about Kindle Unlimited for readers
Here we share Geethik Technologies’ insights into Kindle Unlimited (this blog post first appeared on the Geethik Technologies’ blog).
Translated fiction in the UK: The stats
Ahead of our next event, ‘The Future of Literature in Translation‘, Nielsen BookScan’s Jaclyn Swope shares the data we need to know about translated titles.
Behind the scenes at Blackwell’s: What publishers can learn from a bookselling icon
Last week I was lucky enough to receive a VIP behind-the-scenes tour of Blackwell’s flagship store in Broad Street, Oxford. The point of the exercise,…
Exciting new chapter in Paddington’s history announced at Bologna Book Fair
Vivendi, who took full ownership of the Paddington brand worldwide in 2016, and HarperCollins Children’s Book, home of Paddington Bear publishing for sixty years, presented…
