Poet and playwright Hannah Jane Walker’s debut on the value of sensitivity has been signed by Aster following her Radio 4 documentary and stage show on the subject. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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Kobo c.e.o. Michael Tamblyn's full address from the FutureBook Conference 2015. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-12-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Print cookbooks "aren’t searchable, they take up lots of space, they can’t easily be wiped clean, and they are not easy to share with others," writes Matthew Cockerill. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-11-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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"Self-publishing companies have long been seen as sharks in the publishing waters," writes Ronan Colgan. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-11-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Michael Tamblyn, president of Rakuten Kobo, is to present a manifesto for reading at the FutureBook Conference. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-11-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Walker Books has acquired The Teenage Guide to Friends, a book aimed at helping teenagers navigate friendships and peer group issues, by Nicola Morgan. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-11-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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UK and Commonwealth rights for the Charlie Hebdo editor’s posthumous manifesto, Open Letter: On Blasphemy, Islamophobia and the True Enemies of Free Expression, have yet to be sold, it has been confirmed. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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"Our love of the print book is problematic," writes Bath Spa University's Rosie Maynard, "causing people left, right and centre to declare ‘THE BOOK IS DEAD’ or some variation thereof." A couple of years ago, everyone in what I call "the industry! the industry!" passed around a ridiculous video... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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"The readers will always need curation." Sometimes the simplest statement of what we know is so refreshing. Here, the mellifluously named Jaya Jha of Pothi.com and InstaScribe speaks to us of seeing the advantages in change and the change in advantages. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-11-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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"This capability is what we lost 500 years ago with the Gutenberg book." And Akim Ozakil, founder of the two-year-old Alternate Worlds digital publisher in the San Francisco area, calls that lost capability "mutation," by which he means the ability for readers to impact a story. What's printed,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-11-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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"The gold rush is over," writes Auckland-based author Gary McLaren, seeing it as a natural market phenomenon that, "the supply of new books was eventually going to exceed demand" in digital publishing. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-10-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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"I want to work in a flourishing industry known for its competence, kindness, innovation and creativity." In one of the clearest iterations yet of her call for contemporary skills in a venerable industry, regular FutureBook contributor Emma Barnes of Bibliocloud and Snowbooks draws up a... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-10-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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"There are too many adjectives in publishing already," writes Carla Douglas. An editor based in Kingston, Ontario, Douglas is a frequent participant in our #FutureChat Twitter discussions and an engaging observer of the creative scene in publishing. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-10-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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"Ultimately, publishing comes down to six irreducible elements." And in laying out those elements for us in her FutureBook 2015 manifesto, it takes publishing consultant Alison Jones only to element No. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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"The future of the book business will certainly be unveiled on a digital platform." Even as some believe that ebooks' progress has been staggered by a retreat to print, Trajectory c.e.o. and co-founder Jim Bryant is undaunted in his vision for the primacy of "relevancy and discovery" inherent in... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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If you haven't yet thought of "the power of mobile devices in billions of pockets," now might be a good moment. Ron Martinez, founder and chief of San Francisco-based Aerbook, suggests fighting democratisation with democratisation, when it comes to "an accidental monolith, say, in the U.S. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-09-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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"One of the reasons many of the greatest novels ever published are so long," writes Len Epp, "is that they were already hits while they were being written." Serials, writes Leanpub co-founder Epp, are the true approach to traditional publishing. Only in the last century, he contends, did we come... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-09-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Walker Books Group has acquired a picture book written and illustrated by Oliver Jeffers and artist Sam Winston. The picture book, entitled A Child of Books, is about a little girl who sails her raft “across a sea of words” to arrive at the house of a small boy. There she invites him to... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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"For many years, I've had the classic problem of being able to wallpaper my apartment with all the rejection letters I've received." Thus, Teymour Shahabi in New York says in the first of a series of videos on his site, he has decided to "experiment with some of the new ways people are... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-09-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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"Just as portable paint tubes revolutionized the act of making art for painters like Monet and Renoir, the digital revolution is transforming the art book," writes critic Carol Strickland. The author of a digital book for iPad on impressionism in Erudition's Masterpieces of Art series,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-09-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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