Time to bury the ISBN?
This is a guest post from Ricardo Fayet. Ricardo is an avid reader and startup enthusiast who has been studying the publishing industry with interest…
Strategy
Making Love: What the Mills & Boon archive reveals about publishing relationships
This is a guest post from Abigail Barclay, Managing Consultant at Inspired Selection. Abigail is recruiting for a range of roles in professional publishing as…
Is a royalty-only system the way forward for author payment?
Jasmin Kirkbride is BookMachine’s new blogger. Jasmin is the Editorial Intern at Tenebris Books. She is a freelance editor and published author. You can find…
How to set up a publishing house: Red Button Publishing
Caroline Goldsmith and Karen Ings founded Red Button Publishing in 2012. Like many professionals working with books, the idea of running their own publishing house…
Why Is Video Conferencing Good For Business?
Any business can benefit from video conferencing. Rather than the traditional setup of meetings and consultations involving plane trips,long drives, and hotel expenses, videoconferencing opens…
5 questions for Joe Regal from Zola Books [INTERVIEW]
Host of November’s BookMachine NYC, Bree Weber, talks to speaker on the night Joe Regal, co-founder of Zola Books. Grab your tickets for BookMachine NYC…
The Digital Challenge: Disintermediation [AN EXTRACT FROM ‘THE CONTENT MACHINE’]
This is an extract from The Content Machine: Towards a Theory of Publishing from the Printing Press to the Digital Network, by Michael Bhaskar. …
5 Questions for Brett Sandusky [INTERVIEW]
Brett Sandusky is a maker of things, both digital and physical. He is the founder of bdigitil Media Labs, a consultancy which provides UX, product…
Navigating the collaborative whirlpool: five tips for gliding through challenging publishing projects
We’ve all encountered the notion that being thrown into the deep end of the pool is the most effective way to learn how to swim.…
International Collaboration In Publishing: Why Being Old is a Good Thing
Note from the editor: If you’re free on Thursday 23rd May, please do join us at BookMachine Unplugged, as our top speakers discuss collaboration and…
The Book is Dead. Long Live the Book
This is a guest post from Johnny Rich, author of The Human Script, published by Red Button Publishing I love books. I love the musk…
Three Tips to Preparing for the Bookpocalypse
Last week’s IPG conference unearthed some strong criticisms of high street booksellers from Iain Dale. He slated WH Smith for their “marketing fee”, hit out…
Is Re-Publishing a Self-Published Book a Good Idea?
In the last two years, a lot of publishers have been buying into self-published ebook successes in a big way. There’s the Amanda Hocking trilogy,…
Publishers, We Need to Talk
There are very few things in life that make my blood boil more than someone tearing down the industry I work in with false accusations…
9 Questions for Eric Huang, Penguin Books [INTERVIEW]
A few weeks ago Eric Huang kindly answered some questions about his role at Penguin and how they are working and collaborating with new companies…
