Which #BookTech player is your favourite?
What the world needs now is…. An aggregator of a book lover’s print and digital bookshelves? “The YouTube of storytelling”? A curated marketplace for publishing professionals? You tell us in...
View ArticleRebecca Smart joins Author Day speakers
Conference note: While anticipation is building for #AuthorDay on Monday (30th November), we’re closing bookings Friday (27th) for #FutureBook15, hurry to get your seat. PRH-Ebury’s chief on ‘What...
View ArticleFutureBook’s chairs, warming up with questions
Conference update: Bookings close this weekend for FutureBook 2015, hurry to get one of the remaining seats at Mermaid London for the event, which is a week from today, 4th December. Our hashtag for...
View ArticlePublishers And Authors: Inviting Them To The Same Party
Every Job In Publishing Depends On Authors How is book publishing divided today? Let’s not count the ways. Outsiders looking into this beleaguered industry, however, might be surprised at the reticence...
View Article#FutureBook2015: Judith Curr and ‘Crave’
Following our story, Simon & Schuster and Atria Books have officially announced the launch of the Crave app (iOS initially, Android to follow) . You can see the app site here, and learn more about...
View ArticleLooking for trust: Author Day to FutureBook 2015
Sending messages from one conference to another On Friday at FutureBook 2015, I’ll present a distillation of the concerns we encountered when our Author Day delegates—both authors and publishers—took...
View ArticleAuthor Earnings: Springtime for UK indie ebooks
Welcome to the UK, Author Earnings Unlike the US, where collective indie ebook earnings long ago surpassed that of all Big Five authors combined, in the UK indie-published authors and Big Five...
View ArticleDoes writing matter in a ‘not book’?
‘Writing created for a digital space’ Late in her review of The Pickle Index for The FutureBook, Ami Greko tells us that Eli Horowitz and Russell Quinn (who, as Sudden Oak, also produced The Silent...
View ArticleA message to #FutureBook15 from #AuthorDay
To work together, not as antagonists The Bookseller’s Author Day conference opened this year’s FutureBook Week on Monday (30th November). It was the inaugural staging of a conference expressly meant to...
View Article‘Public solitude’: No One Can Tell You The Best Way To Create Your Work
Here be ‘unprofessionals’ “Writing offline” seems almost an odd phrase today. You’ll find it—online—in Words Unwired, a commentary by Lorin Stein in the New York Times Sunday Book Review. We...
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