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…
Digital Book Publishing & Technology
Stay current on tech and digital trends in book publishing. From e-books to online distribution, learn how to succeed in the digital age.
Death of digital overstated in recent report
The Publishers Association numbers show consumer ebook sales have collapsed by 17 per cent, but physical book sales are up by 8 per cent[1]. The media took…
Dos and don’ts for using SEO to be a better publisher [Winning blog idea April]
Each month BookMachine offers a community member, with great ideas, the chance to write on the site. April’s winner was Caleb Woodbridge who writes about…
6 essential online tools for self-published authors
In this blog post, Chris Singleton – director of digital marketing company Style Factory – highlights six tools that can help self-published authors handle the…
How technology can make reading fun: Louie Stowell interview
Reading opens up our minds to new experiences and unknown facts. However, with the rise in digital devices, today’s story telling has taken on a…
Startup Snapshot: Squirl
Jef Van der Avoort is co-founder of Squirl, the first location-based book discovery app. Previously he helped brands like LEGO, Philips and Hasbro to create engaging…
Here’s how to turn book samples into a powerful B2C tool
Book samples are one of the most under-utilized tools in a publisher or author’s marketing arsenal. Most consumers will not buy a book without at least…
What is the future of illustrated publishing?
Digital printing technology has the potential to transform the illustrated book industry. The classic model for illustrated book publishing established by Paul Hamlyn and others…
10 Questions for Vitek Tracz, founder of F1000Research
Vitek Tracz is the founder of F1000Research, an open research publishing platform based on open and transparent peer review that offers immediate publication of an…
Which digital book format has the most growth potential?
The answer might surprise you… Amazon’s Kindle format dominates the ebook market today and it’s easy to assume that will remain the case going forward.…
Mobile fiction startup Radish raises $3M
Today, Radish, a short-form serialized fiction platform capitalizing on the shift to mobile reading, announced that it has raised $3 million in seed financing from…
What a real ‘audiobook’ revolution would look like
Richard Brooks is a Researcher at Coventry University and the Project Manager of the Arts and Humanity Research Council project ‘Hidden Story’. At the recent…
Managing your ebook outsourcing relationship in 2017
As the New Year kicks-off, it is an opportunity to evaluate and re-think existing relationships – in an effort to make 2017 a more efficient,…
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…
Top thought-provoking ebook related blogs of 2016
Is 2017 the year you start to read up on the industry and changes sweeping the publishing world? Well we have made it a bit…
