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    Sara O'Connor

    Interview with Sara O’Connor [Full Stack Developer]

    Sara O’Connor worked in children’s publishing for 13 years and is now a full-time web developer. Frustrated with the cost and creative limitations of outsourcing good digital…

    Sara O'Connor September 19, 2018

    Interview with Janneke Niessen [angel investor, board member, mentor for startups]

    Janneke Niessen is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, board member and mentor for startups. She has started and sold 2 international tech companies and is…

    BookMachine Staff September 17, 2018

    Do-it-yourself scanning: how we got into OCR and you can too

    Nick Barreto works where books and technology intersect. He’s managed and built apps, is as an expert on ebook formats, metadata and workflows. He is…

    Nick Barreto September 2, 2018

    Making a groundbreaking animated and interactive children’s storybook

    This article is by Ken Jones of Circular Software. Ken is running the Understanding eBooks day on 25th April 2018. I’ve been involved in making beautiful…

    Ken Jones February 7, 2018

    Top tips for optimizing book discoverability

    We’re fortunate to have so many book discovery tools and techniques available to us, but leveraging them effectively can be challenging. In this post I’ll…

    Chris Sim May 17, 2017

    Preserving our digital future

    John Chelsom started the XML Summer School in 2000, and continues as a board member and lecturer at this annual event. Since 2010 he has…

    John Chelsom January 4, 2017

    A day in the life of a programmer

    Emma Barnes taught herself to code after founding her own independent publisher, Snowbooks. She went on to build Bibliocloud, the next-generation publishing system. Now she’s…

    BookMachine Staff November 10, 2016
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    Jessica Ballance

    Coding for publishers: taster course

    SYP member Jessica Ballance combines her work as a bookseller and manager of Daunt Books in North London with the role of associate editor at Dodo Ink, an independent…

    Jess Balance October 30, 2016

    What’s your flavour?: Selecting the right XML for your content

    This is a guest post from Emily Gibson and Nic Gibson. They are both directors of Corbas Consulting Ltd and each have over 20 years’ publishing experience,…

    Emily Gibson and Nic Gibson June 7, 2016
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    Get with the program: Why and how to start coding

    You work in publishing, right? You think you’re creative? What do you spend most of your time at work doing? If you’re in a low-level…

    Anna Faherty May 5, 2016
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    The code less travelled: Why I became a Rails Girl for the day and why we should all care more about coding

    Recently, I seem to have encountered coding at every turn. It all started with an article by Jasmin Kirkbride here on BookMachine, back in April.…

    Abbie Headon December 20, 2015
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    Coder Generation: Building digital skills doesn’t have to be scary

    The digital revolution might seem like a challenge to us now, but there’s a whole new generation of digital natives that will be coming into…

    Jasmin Kirkbride April 5, 2015
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    Five things they know about XML that you don’t

    This is a guest post from Emily and Nic Gibson. They are both directors of Corbas Consulting Ltd and each have over 15 years’ publishing…

    Emily Gibson March 17, 2015
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    How to create a catalogue automatically using ONIX and InDesign

    This is a guest post from Emma Barnes. Emma is co-founder of General Products, and indie publisher Snowbooks. General Products is the company behind FutureBook-award-winning…

    Emma Barnes February 25, 2015
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    A publisher’s guide to APIs

    This is a guest post from Emma Barnes. Emma is co-founder of General Products, and indie publisher Snowbooks. General Products is the company behind FutureBook-award-winning…

    Emma Barnes January 28, 2015
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