The new must-have tool for publishers? Media monitoring
Gone are the days when publishers can rest on their laurels. With disruptive players creating a new environment of competitiveness within the sector, there has…
New technologies
Content is no longer king. Here are 5 things that are.
This is a guest post by Nick Robinson. Nick has worked in ELT publishing since 2004 and in 2012 he founded the world’s first ELT author…
Picturing the future of the book
This is a guest post from Alison Jones. Alison is a business and executive coach, content consultant and publisher. After a 23-year career in trade…
Ahead of the Curve: What RPG publishers have to teach the mainstream
This weekend saw one of Britain’s largest annual meetings of leisure games enthusiasts at the 2015 UK Games Expo in Birmingham. Amongst the 14,000 attendees…
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).…
5 Questions for Miral Sattar from Bibliocrunch [INTERVIEW]
Host of November’s BookMachine NYC, Bree Weber, talks to speaker on the night Miral Sattar, founder of BiblioCrunch. Grab your tickets for BookMachine NYC here.…
On-screen proofing comes of age
This is a guest post from John Pettigrew, CEO of FutureProofs. At Futureproofs we’ve spent the past year creating a solution to a problem that…
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. …
Stop building communities. Join one instead.
Gareth Cuddy is CEO of ePubDirect, known as one of the leading experts on eBooks and Digital Publishing in the UK and Ireland. We are…
5 Questions for Emma Barnes [INTERVIEW]
Emma Barnes has spent ten years at the helm of an award-winning independent trade publisher, Snowbooks. Nowadays she uses her understanding of the realities of…
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…
5 Questions for Núria Pérez Olid [INTERVIEW]
GlobalBook is an international project that connects the entire book publishing chain, giving publishers more data about how sales are achieved, and the intelligence to…
4 Questions for Gabriel Pena i Ballesté of BookMovies.tv [INTERVIEW]
BookMovies.tv work with publishers, authors and literary agents to distribute timely, relevant and spectacular audio-visual materials. They’re also proud sponsors of tonight’s BookMachine Barcelona. We…
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…
5 Questions for Travis Alber [INTERVIEW]
In the run up to BookMachine New York, we’re running a set of interviews with publishing professionals connected to the City,…
