How to work with freelancers: 8 tips for publishers
Whether you are working as a freelance or in-house, the publishing world relies on great communication, specialist skills and not a small amount of stress.…
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The business of books: Only connect
At the launch of BookMachine’s Snapshots III I kicked off the talks by raining hard on the book industry parade. (Sorry.) While I was on…
Kieron Smith: Selling more books online [PRESENTATION]
How good is your metadata? Helping readers find the content they want, in a well-organised way, is fundamental to selling more books online. There are…
The crowdfunding publisher: David Roche interview
David Roche has been on the boards of HarperCollins, BookTrust, Waterstones and HMV, and was CEO of Borders and Books etc. He now runs his…
What makes a bestseller?
Jonny Geller is a literary agent and joint CEO of Curtis Brown. Here he follows up with some thoughts following a recent Tedx talk he…
The business of books: Defying classification
This week’s guest in The Extraordinary Business Book Club house was Patrick McGinnis, author of The 10% Entrepreneur: Live Your Dream Without Quitting Your Day…
Looking foreword: The next 5 years of publishing
Here’s George Walkley’s foreword to the latest BookMachine book (published Spring 2016) and a taster of what’s to come: Much of the debate about the…
Learning from Snapshots III: 8 project management tips for beginners
As part of our MA in Publishing course at Kingston University, we collaborate with various companies to produce a book in a rather short timeframe.…
Startup snapshot: Bookmetrix
Martijn Roelandse was a publishing editor at Bohn Stafleu van Loghum, a Dutch Springer subsidiary, and later for Springer. Since 2015 he has been working as Manager of…
How crowdfunding is changing publishing: Mathew Clayton interview
Mathew Clayton is as an editor, events organiser and writer. Currently, he works as the Head of Publishing at the innovative crowdfunding publisher Unbound and runs a…
It’s all gone a bit dead: 6 steps for reviving a stalled crowdfunding campaign
Jimmy Leach is, amongst other things, head of crowdfunding at Unbound. Here are his 6 steps for reevaluating and reviving a crowdfunding campaign. It happens to…
The business of books: 3 publishing trends
This week’s guest on The Extraordinary Business Book Club podcast was Rachel Bridge, journalist, speaker and author of Ambition: Why It’s Good to Want More…
The business of books: social selling
At the London Book Fair’s Quantum conference last month I listened to Aissetou Ngom talk about Penguin Platform, the young adult brand which she manages.…
The business of publishing: on writing a book live
You’d think that publishers would be in the perfect position to turn their hand to writing a book, wouldn’t you? Especially one who actually began…
6 mistakes to avoid when diversifying published content
The theory of diversifying published content is well-established among publishers in the modern industry. We all know that stories can be told in many different…
