Getting up to speed with online marketing
In case you hadn’t already heard, the highly social media savvy Jon Reed has just published a book…
Is Penguin merchandise top of your Christmas list?
A visit to the Penguin Books website today throws up the fact (if, of course, you believe it’s real…
Twitter facilitates copyright permissions clearance
Anyone who has every tried it knows clearing permission to use copyrighted material in another publication is a…
When publishers don’t sell books
Publishing isn’t just about producing and selling books – or producing and selling book-like things. A growing number…
Four horsemen of the apocalypse at the ICA
Last night at the ICA, Roy Greenslade, Professor of Journalism at City University and Guardian Media columnist, spelled…
Is Rowling losing the plot?
So as JK Rowling, and her publishers Bloomsbury, head off for a court date with the estate of…
Long live paper
Ever since my then housemate, who worked on pop-up children’s books, told me she was having a meeting…
There’s nothing new about being single
Believe Amazon and you’ll believe that writers have spent years (“more than a century” to use their words)…
Describing self-publishing in cartoons
At the recent Kingston University annual publishing conference on self-publishing, the highly talented David Gifford acted as ‘conference…