BookMachine newsletters

Here are the latest BookMachine newsletters, including the Reinventing Culture How the Arts Worlds collide in the Age of Technology Event in London in July and the Ingenta Scholarly Publishing Crossing the Rubicon in September in Oxford,  for my followers to peruse:

Events | Membership | Training | Industry insights | Publishing tips | Hire us   WEEKLY BOOKWRAP   Design | Digital | Editorial | Marketing & Publicty | Production | Business     The past, present & future of publicity: Interview with Georgina Moore BookMachine Publicists were hugely patronised as people who booked parties or in Bridget Jones’s words ‘fannying around with press releases’. Now there is no sales strategy without a PR & marketing plan at the heart of it.    Read more   The personal principle - 8 steps to take UX beyond web development Suzanne Kavanagh  Personas are a user experience tool for web developers, right? Well, yes. Typically, they help understand user requirements for online/digital products, but they can also improve insight across your business. Before we talk about how to start we need to bust a few myths…   Read more   10 tips for successful freelancing Abbie Headon Yes, you need to be an opportunist, and keep an eye out for new jobs and new clients – but sometimes a job will come up that’s not quite right for you, or that you’re busy to take on. If you can connect people together to get the job done, do it. It will make you feel warm and fuzzy inside, and both the other parties will think well of you.   Read more   The P word Cyrstal-lee Quibell Platform. The rumored King of the successful book deal, wherein an author is assured a potential six figure contract if only they have a mere following of 100,000 or more fans. That should be easy, right? I mean with Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Instagram, Tumblr, and Snapchat it’s never been easier to connect with our readers. It’s also never been more difficult.   Read more   Foreign Rights Managers [JOB POSTINGS] BookMachine The Quarto Group are recruiting for two new positions: Foreign Rights Manager Senior Foreign Rights Manager   Read more   Interview with Alice Curry, winner of the Kim Scott Walwyn Prize Norah Jones Alice Curry is the Founder and Publisher of Lantana Publishing, a London-based independent publishing company nominated for the Bologna Prize for Best Children’s Publisher of the Year 2017. She is this year’s winner of the Kim Scott Walwyn Prize. Norah Myers interviews her here.    Read more   THE ARTS+ - New meeting place for the cultural & creative industries BookMachine The creative and cultural industries are seen as pioneers and innovators – reaching beyond their industry borders. They have social and economic importance. The aim of THE ARTS+ is to show how digitalisation and new technologies affect these industries.   Read more   Drum roll please ... the keynote speaker is ... BookMachine  Richard Charkin is the keynote speaker at 'United, We Publish 3: Consent or coercion – shape your fate in an age of change' on 19th July. Richard is currently Executive Director of Bloomsbury Publishing, Non-Executive Director of Institute of Physics Publishing and of Liverpool University Press. He is President of The Book Society, past President of the UK Publishers Association and the International Publishers Association.   Read more   EVENTS: 21/6/17 The future of literature in translation 5/7/17 Reinventing Culture: How the arts worlds collide in an age of technology 19/7/17 United We Publish III: Consent or coercion           Fancy blogging for BookMachine? Use this form to pitch your idea   Would you like to advertise here? Get in touch             See you next week! Sam & the BookMachine Team     © BookMachine 2016 | We love your books

Dear BookMachine subscribers, Join an experienced group of publishers, bloggers, designers and curators of digital content who will be discussing the future of the arts and creative industries at an event: ‘Reinventing Culture: How the Arts Worlds Collide in the Age of Technology’ (5th July 2017, 6.30pm, The Library private members club in Covent Garden). During the evening, Holger Volland, founder of THE ARTS+, will be in discussion with Alex Flowers and Fiona Romeo about their views and experiences.   Alex is Team Leader for Digital Programmes at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Embracing the ethos of the maker movement and open source, the Digital Programmes team engage people with emerging digital design processes and the collections of the museum.    Fiona recently returned to London from New York, where she was the Director of Digital Content and Strategy at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Previously, Fiona produced content and experiences for valued brands like the Royal Observatory, Science Museum, BBC, and Disney.   Early bird ticket sales end this Friday.   Buy ticket now   This unmissable informal London event will preceed THE ARTS+ - an interactive business festival run at the Frankfurt Book Fair (Frankfurter Buchmesse) from 11-15th October 2017. If you have any questions about this event, or about THE ARTS+ in general, please get in touch. All the best for now, Laura Summers Co-founder, BookMachine         Copyright © 2017 BookMachine, All rights reserved.            Our mailing address is: BookMachine 6 Mitre Passage (8th Floor) Greenwich Peninsula London, - SE10 0ER United Kingdom                       Hello and good morning, We know that lots of of you aren't in Oxford, but hang on in there... please keep reading as this event has the most excellent line-up of speakers; and is a 3 minute walk from the station - and in our humble opinion is definitely one to attend. Today’s scholarly publishing ecosystem is facing disruption on a scale that could not have been imagined in the last century. So what are publishers doing in response? Join our panel of speakers, including a ‘traditional’ publisher, start-up entrepreneur, and industry analyst, who will consider what the key disruptive forces are. Drawing on their own experience, they will reflect on how we can act and react.    More information and early bird tickets     As Head of Ingenta Connect, Byron Russell provides overall leadership and management of the commercial activities for Ingenta's publisher-facing CMS product, Ingenta Connect, spanning 280+ publisher clients and over 25,000 registered libraries     Charlie Rapple is Sales & Marketing Director and Co-founder of Kudos, a web-based service that helps researchers and their institutions and funders maximise the visibility and impact of their published articles.      Phill Jones is Director of Innovation at Digital Science. He works in the Digital Science Consultancy where he supports publishers with strategic decision making in editorial, marketing and sales, based on scientometric analyses.    Find out more   Further speakers will be confirmed shortly. We hope to see many of you there! All the best for now, Suzanne Kavanagh Member, BookMachine Works       Copyright © 2017 BookMachine, All rights reserved.           Our mailing address is: BookMachine 6 Mitre Passage (8th Floor) Greenwich Peninsula London, - SE10 0ER United Kingdom                    Events | Membership | Training | Industry insights | Publishing tips | Hire us   WEEKLY BOOKWRAP   Design | Digital | Editorial | Marketing & Publicty | Production | Business     Translated fiction in the UK: The stats Jaclyn Swope We estimate that translated titles accounted for nearly 6% of adult fiction sales (excluding graphic novels) in 2016; sales were down on 2015 but still exceeded previous years, adding up to around 2m in units sold and £18m in revenue.   Read more   How publishing professionals can stretch their marketing budget Louise Harnby Publishing professionals – from presses to freelancers – have marketing budgets. That’s because our pockets aren’t bottomless. Furthermore, creating high-quality marking materials is labour intensive, and most of us are time-poor. The question is, then, can that budget be stretched? And if so, how?   Read more   A list of dos and don'ts for publishers who want to work with book reviewers Christina Vasilevski Based on my own personal experience as a book blogger, here’s a list of handy tips to keep in mind when approaching reviewers about your latest book and building a relationship for the long term.   Read more   10 things we learned at CreativePro Week Ken Jones CreativePro Week was a coming together of over forty expert speakers, dozens of developers and over five hundred InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator users for a full 5 days of practical, creative and technical sessions, workshops and discussions. Here’s ten things that I learnt last week.   Read more   Foreign Rights Managers [JOB POSTINGS] BookMachine The Quarto Group are recruiting for two new positions: Foreign Rights Manager Senior Foreign Rights Manager   Read more   Tips for editorial freelancers on keeping things going Liz Jones You’ve established your editorial business. Next is to consider ways to keep the momentum going through the first few years, and take your business to the next level. There are as many different ways of building sustainability into an editorial business as there are editors, but here are some general tips.   Read more   THE ARTS+ - New meeting place for the cultural & creative industries BookMachine Last year, THE ARTS+ was launched as a new meeting place for the cultural and creative industries. This year it is back – and will run parallel to Frankfurt Book Fair from 11 till 15 October. In the run up to the big event BookMachine and THE ARTS+ are organising an event in London. So here we interview Hendrik Hellige, Director of Business Development Arts & Visual Culture to find out more.   Read more   A beginner's guide to negotiating contracts Mara Livingstone-McPhail Contracts are essential and having a working knowledge of what goes into your contracts, and why, can only increase understanding of your business and aid clarity in discussing contract queries from authors/agents, and help you to negotiate better deals all round.   Read more   Printing School Tours [19th June, London] BookMachine Have you heard about the next BookMachine/Unite event in London? Before the event, we will be running 4 tours of the printing school at St Bride Foundation. It was set up in 1891 and even now continues to run courses on composition, printing and bookbinding.   Register here   EVENTS: 21/6/17 The future of literature in translation 5/7/17 Reinventing Culture: How the arts worlds collide in an age of technology 19/7/17 United We Publish III: Consent or coercion               Fancy blogging for BookMachine? Use this form to pitch your idea   Would you like to advertise here? Get in touch             See you next week! Sam & the BookMachine Team     © BookMachine 2016 | We love your books

Good morning, The word on the street is that “BookMachiners” are at the forefront of what's happening in the publishing industry. Well, as a loyal subscriber to our email, we are letting you know about the keynote speaker for United, We Publish 3 on 19th July. Drum roll please… it is Mr Richard Charkin.   Aside from being a notable publishing champion, Richard is an excellent and insightful speaker. He is currently Executive Director of Bloomsbury Publishing, Non-Executive Director of Institute of Physics Publishing and of Liverpool University Press. He is President of The Book Society, past President of the UK Publishers Association and the International Publishers Association.   We’ll be officially announcing Richard’s participation to non-BookMachiners tomorrow. Click below to find out more about the event. As a reminder the panellists are listed below. There are discounted tickets available for BookMachine members / NUJ members / SYP members / Unite members.     Book tickets     Jacks Thomas (Director, The London Book Fair)     Hazel Cushion (Managing Director, Accent Press)     Tony Burke (Assistant General Secretary, Unite the Union)      John Pettigrew (Founder, WeAreFutureproofs)   Book tickets   We hope to see many of you there! All the best for now, Laura BookMachine co-founder       Copyright © 2017 BookMachine, All rights reserved.           Our mailing address is: BookMachine 6 Mitre Passage (8th Floor) Greenwich Peninsula London, - SE10 0ER United Kingdom