Broadcaster and journalist Mick Rooney talks to Buythebook owner Rachel Drury for Radio Espial. Rachel graduated as an engineer in 2005 and worked for over 10 years In the renewable energy industry both in Ireland, Chile, Sweden and South Africa before relocating to Sydney, Australia in 2013. In 2018, Rachel returned back to Ireland and…
London Book Fair 2017: Quantum17 Voices [Video]
Here are some short videos of attendees and speakers sharing their thoughts on the publishing industry at today’s Quantum Conference, part of this year’s London Book Fair. The Quantum programme was refined for 2017 with a renewed focus on consumers, audiences, partnerships, actionable insights and inspiration.
Dutch Publisher A.W. Bruna | The Story Nobody Tells by Timo Boezeman | FutureBook
Timo Boezeman of Dutch publishing house, A. W. Bruna, tells us the story of what a modern publisher does over on FutureBook. “That we are experiencing turbulent times in the book world, is common knowledge to us all. The financial crisis, digitisation of our titles, foreign companies entering our markets and the growing trend of…
Guest Post: Online Publishing with a Twist | Amanda Meuwissen of BigWorldNetwork
Combining ebooks, audiobooks and eventual paperbacks in episodic eSeries, BigWorldNetwork.com may be the new television for books. Guest poster and Managing Editor at BWN, Amanda Meuwissen explains: BigWorldNetwork.com is The eSeries Network, a new kind of publisher offering serialized online publication of fiction and non-fiction, audio versions of all eSeries episodes, and eventual compilations to…
eBooks For The Bookshelf | Boxette
Have you heard the one about the man who goes into his local bookstore and asks the assistant, ‘where are all those ebooks I keep hearing about? I can’t find a single one on any of your shelves.’ Well, the store assistant might have laughed, but Boxette, a Manchester UK-based ebook production company, is not not…
DBW Insights | Richard Nash – Founder of Cursor and Publisher at Red Lemonade
Richard Nash Bio: I ran Soft Skull Press from 2001 to 2007 when we sold it to Counterpoint for whom I continued to run it until early 2009. I founded Cursor and am publisher of Red Lemonade. I now run content and community for the new cultural discoverer Small Demons. After the jump is my…
Publishing Innovators | Jerry D. Simmons – Author Advocate
Jerry D. Simmons has spent many years in the book publishing industry and I first came across him on Nothing Binding (a social network, resource for writers to communicate and sell their work) several years ago. He is an absolute hive of experience and has given many talks on the industry and delivered tutorials for self-publishing…
Dotterel Press – Overview
Dotterel Press is a very small press in the UK founded in 2009 by Tim Atkinson and Gareth Dearson. They describe Dotterel Press as a social enterprise initiative designed to help bring new and talented authors to the attention of a small, discerning readership. “We aim to to sow the seeds of a successful writing…
Book Republic (Maverick House Publishing) – Overview (Updated 2013)
Book Republic was launched in 2010 and describes itself as a ’boutique’ imprint of Irish publisher Maverick House. Based in Dunboyne, Co Meath, Ireland, Book Republic’s operational model of publishing is different in several distinct ways to the standard model of publishing and is similar to Or Books and Publishr, and the now defunct HarperStudio. “What…
Memeoirs: Emails to Book – Overview
Memeoirs is a recently introduced online service allowing users to create a printed book (POD – print-on-demand) based on your own email exchanges. The service reminds me of several websites allowing users to create a book based on their blog or Facebook page. Memeoirs: your emails in a book. Seriously? Yes, no joke. We take…