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Amazon: How to get your book among the Best Sellers Richard McCartney So what can you do to get your book also featured in the “customers who bought this item also bought” area? The answer is incredibly simple: get people to buy your book as well as the book you want your book to appear next to in the “customers who bought this item also bought” section.   Read more   Which social media channel sells the most books Rachel Thompson “Which one social media channel will net me the most book sales?” an author asked me recently during my new weekly #BookMarketingChat. Well, it’s not that easy. Wouldn’t it be great if we could just go to say, Facebook, because that’s the EASY button, and violá! They will come, we will sell, and yacht-life, here we come. Alas, it just doesn’t work that way because well, a few reasons.   Read more   Project Editor [JOB POSTING] BookMachine The City & Guilds Group are looking to recruit two Project Editors on a 12 months fixed term contract. You will support the delivery of their apprenticeships offer for 2018. The role will develop your print and digital development and production skills, and knowledge of the vocational education sector ...   Read more   10 tips for building a freelance business website Margaret Hunter Don’t be lured in by offers of expensive SEO (search engine optimisation) services that guarantee to get your site to the top of the search results. Once you know the ‘rules’, SEO is just common sense.    Read more   Project Manager, Education [JOB POSTING] BookMachine Out of House Publishing Solutions is a fast-growing publishing services company based in Gloucestershire. We offer a comprehensive project management service for every kind of publishing project, and we are currently looking for a project manager to come and work on our expanding list of educational titles.    Read more   EVENT: 7/9/2017 Scholarly Publishing: Crossing the rubicon       TRAINING: Understanding InDesign Understanding Ebooks Understanding Print Production         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

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Interview with Francesca Main, Publishing Director at Picador Norah Myers Sometimes you learn as much from the books you don’t publish as those you do. Always have a book that’s nothing to do with work on the go. And don’t rip open US jiffy bags too eagerly: it’s like emptying the contents of a hoover into your lap.   Read more   FutureBook ... or FutureRead? Fostering the next generation of readers Sheila Bounford I had long been struck by the way in which publishing takes an ongoing supply of capable readers, churned out by our education system, completely for granted. How many other industries have the luxury of mass-scale, largely state-funded foundations for their markets? I was also troubled that publishing seemed to be becoming less diverse, not more: class and cultural homogeny felt to me like it was entrenching, not dissolving.   Read more   Talking Podcasts: The Extraordinary Business Book Club Abbie Headon In the second article in our Talking Podcasts series, Abbie Headon interviews Alison Jones, a regular contributor to the BookMachine blog and an expert commentator on all things digital, about her podcast, The Extraordinary Business Book Club.   Read more   Project Manager, Education [JOB POSTING] BookMachine Out of House Publishing Solutions is a fast-growing publishing services company based in Gloucestershire. We offer a comprehensive project management service for every kind of publishing project, and we are currently looking for a project manager to come and work on our expanding list of educational titles.    Read more   The Quarto Publishing Group on partnerships: David Inman interview BookMachine We constantly look for new distribution partners from around the world, in particular North America and the UK, but also in international markets. In general, there are a few criteria we look at when identifying new partnerships:   Read more   Anonymity and the copy editor: Is is time to be recognised? Sara Donaldson I expect that as time goes by, if we are to survive as a valued profession, we need to uphold professional attitudes, become ambassadors for plain, good quality written language and champion excellence wherever possible. We may need to step out of the shadows and shout about what we do and why it is valuable before, like librarians, we are sidelined and people settle for ‘good enough’.   Read more   EVENT: 7/9/2017 Scholarly Publishing: Crossing the rubicon       TRAINING: Understanding InDesign Understanding Ebooks Understanding Print Production         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

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BOOKMACHINE MONTHLY BOOKWRAP Freelance Journalist and Editor, Jasmin Kirkbride, rounds up the big publishing stories in July.   Read the full article here.   This month in publishing news, it’s been all about the publisher’s best friend: the indie bookshop! The 2017 Independent Bookshop Week got well underway towards the end of June with the announcement of its annual Book Award, with winner Sebastian Barry praising the importance of independent bookshops and the culture they help to build. Publishers, too, seem to have thrown their weight behind this year’s celebrations with more gusto than usual, and the whole industry was set abuzz by hundreds of offline events and online by the lively #IBW17 hashtag. Though Independent Bookshop Week finished in early July, it’s been a month of promising news for bricks-and-mortar bookstores, with the BA and PA getting airtime in the House of Commons and sales in bookshops almost even compared to this point last year. Print has been widely reported to be continuing to rise, while digital doom apparently looms for eBooks because of a ‘Shelfie’ craze. Worse still, some of the digital retailers have decided it’s time to forget about fighting print and declared war on each other instead! However, while bookshops are stable, libraries are looking less happy, with cuts and growth across the UK continuing to cause chaos to the sector. When it comes to publishers, PRH spread its international wings even further by completing its purchase of Ediciones B – and well it should with European publishing looking strong, as exemplified by reported 4.25% growth in the French market this year. Meanwhile, Pearson sold 22% of PRH to Bertelsmann. But it’s not all about merges and acquisitions: Canadian publishers are exploring ways to grow the numbers of in-house indigenous editors; Cressida Cowell has become Foyles’ first ever Literacy Ambassador; and the Reading Agency paired with the Society of Chief Librarians to launch a new initiative as part of the Reading Well Books on Prescription programme, curating a list of books for people with long-term mental health issues. But not everyone is satisfied, with Henry Jeffreys claiming publishing was a better industry when it was fuelled by long lunches and alcohol! In author news, one of the oldest authors alive, Herman Wouk, released his latest novel at the phenomenal age of 102! Post-Harry Potter 20, JK Rowling revealed that she originally used her initials for her author name because her publishers’ said it would help to hide her gender. Two decades on, however, the opposite is becoming true, with many male authors stepping forward this month to say they have benefited from gender-neutral pen-names. Last but not least, one female author in particular revealed herself as a firecracker this month, as hidden letters from Agatha Christie revealed she had quite a temper!   Read the full article here.                 EVENTS 7/9/2017 Scholarly Publishing: Crossing the rubicon       TRAINING Understanding InDesign Understanding Ebooks Understanding Print Production       Fancy blogging for BookMachine? Use this form to pitch your idea   Would you like to advertise here? Get in touch