Spanish start-up interview: SeeBook
SeeBook is a new publishing start-up that enables e-books to be sold in brick-and-mortar stores, given away as gifts or signed by the author. Rosa…
Sales, rights and licensing
Why Americans Don’t Read Foreign Fiction [Discussion]
This is a guest post from Tom Chalmers, Managing Director at IPR License. Before Christmas I wrote about some of the issues surrounding books in…
AI Authors: Who owns the rights to the future?
This is a guest post from Jasmin Kirkbride. Jasmin is a regular blogger for BookMachine and Editorial Assistant at Periscope Books (part of Garnet Publishing).…
What Can I Do With This Content? [INTERVIEW]
In the digital age, what steps can publishers take to protect their online content and future-proof their businesses? The proliferation of ‘free’ digital content has…
5 Questions (and a free coffee) with Blackwell’s Holborn
Steve Orchard is the shop manager of the new Blackwell’s in Holborn which opened its doors on 19th December. Having seen the interesting range of books,…
Licensing Seminar highlights the Hasselhoff effect
This is a guest post from Tom Chalmers, Managing Director at IPR License. Late last month we hosted our inaugural Global Licensing: The Bigger Picture…
Technology still needs an audience
In a technological age we all have to think that little bit more about what we say, how we say it and where we say…
Finding gold in the backlist
Many will know I have an unashamed love for Haruki Murakami. So when I heard that his debut work, which is almost impossible to find…
Two Sides to Every Story: London Book Fair through the eyes of a Fledgling Print Author and a Digital Native
Gill Guest (56) Gill Guest is an aspiring children’s author and sheep-keeper based in Shropshire. Previously a freelance garden journalist, her work has appeared in…
Authors Need to Know Their Rights
When it comes to working in the rights and licensing field it’s not uncommon to be bombarded with questions, especially from indie and self-published authors.…
5 questions for Jacks Thomas, Director of The London Book Fair [INTERVIEW]
Jacks Thomas is the Director of The London Book Fair and she will be BookMachine London’s speaker on 27th February. I caught up with her…
5 Questions for Sarah Faulder [INTERVIEW]
The Publishers Licensing Society is run by the publishing industry, for the publishing industry, to support publishers in rights management. They are sponsors of BookMachine…
Seek permission before reproducing something
Tom Chalmers is Managing Director at IPR License. The writer Charles Caleb Colton once said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery but in…
The advent of online global platforms
Tom Chalmers is Managing Director at IPR License. Believe it or not it is 40 years, give or take a week, since the first mobile…
The mysterious art of book rights
Tom Chalmers is Managing Director at IPR License. Are all authors fully aware of all the rights they hold to their work? Are too many…
