Collaborate and innovate
This video gives a great round-up of our November FutureBook conference. The conference showed how well collaborations can work between developers, authors and publishers.Today, we have launched our...
View ArticleFutureBook Innovation Workshop '11 - takeaways
These are the things I remember from #fiw11:Ken Follet's book, Fall of Giants, has been given a 3D audio soundtrack. This is clever because sound is a sense input into the brain and reading is...
View ArticleFutureBook awards shortlist announcement
We have had an amazing number of entries to our innovation awards - 218 in total. The most entries were in the best app category with 76. We decided to break this category into the 3 sub-categories of...
View ArticleAre Education Publishers Really Innovating?
Companies like Apple have been dazzling users with fresh innovations for years. Publishers have enjoyed riding their coattails into the App-mosphere for some time as well. But what we haven’t been as...
View ArticleInnovation from Outside the Publishing Industry – The Underground Bookclub
This month has seen the launch of an app which is entrpreneural in nature and innovative in concept.read more
View ArticleFutureBook Innovation Workshop in association with The Literary Platform
We’re pleased to announce our second annual Innovation Workshop with The Bookseller.read more
View ArticleRumours of the death of publishing have been greatly exaggerated
If the headline writers are to be believed then we are an industry on our last legs, struggling against an inevitable demise but that isn’t what I see – I see the buds of innovation and creativity...
View ArticleGetting students to jump on the e-train
One of the advantages of switching from general trade publishing to SMT is that I get to see a whole new side of the publishing world. One of the areas that has caught my specific interest is students....
View ArticleREACTive Publishing: innovation at the Hub
As our industry becomes increasingly hybrid – ever more digital, yet still significantly paper-based – the necessity to innovate is a growing problem for publishers. With revenues squeezed by falling...
View ArticleBook industry: stop moaning and be creative | @tom_chalmers
There was much applauding following the Booksellers’ Association’s call for the government to support bookshops against the looming giant of Amazon, which followed the French Government’s announced...
View ArticleFutureBook 2013 - Call for papers
The Bookseller's FutureBook 2013 conference will be taking place on 21st November in London.read more
View ArticleFutureBook Innovation Awards - open for entry
Excited to announce that the FutureBook Innovation awards are now open. Launched 3 years ago, the awards were the first of their kind to recognise publishing innovation. read more
View ArticleLove print
We all love books, right? I mean, isn't that why many of us work in publishing? But print is passé and the future belongs to digital, they say. To ebooks, apps, the web. Content is king and form be...
View ArticleWhy Netflix for eBooks won’t work. Today.
It seems that not a week goes by recently when we hear about a company that is “Netflix for eBooks” or “Spotify for publishing”. While I think that the industry desperately needs innovation and fresh...
View ArticleOf Mills and Penguins
The Readmill-Penguin deal is being touted as all sorts of things - I was asked recently to comment on the possibility that it was the first blow in Random House-Penguin’s insurgency against Amazon....
View ArticleLaunching open value-added bundles in Italy (pbook+ebook)
Italian RCS Libri publishing group has just launched “110 Libri+” (literally 110 Books+), the first mass-market publishing initiative in Italy to offer value-added p+e bundles in the main online...
View ArticleFifty Shades of Innovation
Fifty Shades of InnovationPublishers need to stop flirting with innovation and tie the knot if they’re to avoid inevitable demise. So says Elvin Turner, an innovation consultant to brands in...
View ArticleBeaming the Future
Using Science Fiction to Warp-Drive InnovationWith just days to go before the FutureBook Hack, I’ve been struck by a conversation we had at the FutureBook editorial board when we discussed the notion...
View ArticleBitLit announces HarperCollins ebook bundling pilot programme
In a potentially major gain for the ebook-bundling concept, BitLit today is announcing its first deal with a Big Five publisher. HarperCollins (US) has entered what is being described as a pilot...
View ArticleAlta Editions' cookbook innovation recipe
Just when you thought we had innovation on every corner..."Cookbooks belong on line," Chris McBride tells us. "Not just on your shelf."read more
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