Penguin Random House on audiobooks: Hannah Telfer interview
Last week Penguin Random House announced that it’s establishing its audio business as a standalone division, Penguin Random House UK Audio. Here we interviewed Hannah Telfer,…
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Startup snapshot: The Owl Field
Michel Lafrance is the founder and managing director for The Owl Field, an audio entertainment company specializing in 3D audio storytelling. In addition to managing…
ARGs and interactive books: Evan Jones interview
Evan Jones is the founder of Stitch Media, an interactive media production services company focused on telling stories using new technology and timeless techniques. Evan…
Auto-tagging for publishers: taxonomies don’t have to be taxing
This is a guest post by Tom Morris, Chief Technology Officer at publishing and content specialist Ixxus. Here Tom outlines the challenges publishers face with…
The Pigeonhole: Serialised, sociable and gamified reading
The Pigeonhole provides readers with serialised, sociable and gamified content. They can join public reading groups or create their own private ones, and save, highlight…
On audio books and their future: Ali Muirden interview
Ali Muirden divides her time between running her own digital publishing company, Creative Content and working on a freelance and consultancy basis for her publishing…
My 2016 ebook marketplace hopes and wishes
Rather than speculate on what might happen in the ebook sector this year I thought it would be wiser to simply list the developments I’d…
3D: On fast cars and ebooks
In the first of an occasional series, 3D: Three Questions on Design, Toby Hopkins of Getty Images asks Martin Stockham, the man behind new electronic…
2016: A license to innovate
This is a guest post from Tom Chalmers, Managing Director at IPR License, on rights and licensing in 2016. The advent of any New Year…
Companion publishing: How digital can complement print
The beauty of the web is that feedback for what I write here is spread across a variety of platforms. These days it seems most…
How readers will become curators and resellers [OPINION]
It’s easy to think that today’s ebook is as good as it gets. Publishers are mostly satisfied with the current print-under-glass model and, unfortunately, flattening…
Reading aloud: merging audio and text just got a lot easier
You may know that the modern EPUB3 standard has an inbuilt ability to hold audio and video, but one of the most intriguing aspects of…
On experimenting with digital: Nathan Connolly interview
Nathan Connolly is the Publishing Director of Dead Ink Books. Dead Ink was founded in 2010, set up with funding from Arts Council England as…
Two tick-boxes for app success
This is a Guest Post by Laura Cremer, Digital Manager at Octopus Publishing Group. Laura has been shortlisted for the FutureBook ‘Digital Achiever of the Year’…
The next 5 years of publishing: on connecting audiences to stories [OPINION]
In the run up to tonight’s event, Publishing: the next 5 years, BookMachine has been featuring a number of opinions about what might be next for the…
