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Publishing with vision Wed 14 Nov 18

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Seth Godin's mini-guide to publishing, selling and marketing books Seth Godin shares a preview of his exclusive video keynote created specially for this year's FutureBook Live conference in a discussion with Molly Flatt on book publishing, marketing and selling. Read more

Audio escapes the studio with Almost Tangible's 'cinema for the ears' This new London-based production company aims to "free audio from the studio" using immersive technology and on-location recording. Read more

'People, not tech': Trade's digital leaders optimistic for future Voice and artificial intelligence are the most likely candidates to further disrupt the book business, according to the results of a survey of the book trade's most innovative, the FutureBook 40, conducted ahead of FutureBook Live. Read more

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PRINT AINT DEAD: Upham’s Corner’s innovative pop-up bookstore - The Harvard Crimson “Essentially, it’s crowdfunding through literature for writers of color while still providing people with accessible books,” says founder Arielle Gray.

A children’s publisher is designing GIF books for an immersive reading experience - Scroll.in The first series of three 'moving books' is available in five languages.

Drone swarms and digital shamans: five takeaways from Ars Electronica 2018 - Nesta Georgia Ward Dyer visits the world’s largest festival of art, technology and society.

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The shortlist for the first ever FutureBook speculative fiction competition run with digital reading platform The Pigeonhole has been revealed. The winner will be announced ahead of FutureBook Live, to be held on 30th November in London. See the full #FutureBook18 programme here.

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Publishing with vision Wed 17 Oct 18

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Audio, AR and IRL events loom large in the FutureBook Awards 2018 shortlists The 2018 FutureBook Awards shortlists were revealed at Frankfurt Book Fair – and they provide an interesting overview into the state of innovation in the book trade right now. Read more

Test your book innovation ideas at the FutureBook 2018 ThinkSprint Back after a storming debut last year, our ThinkSprint session will give delegates at November's FutureBook Live conference the opportunity to pass their ideas and challenges by a global community of future-focused experts. Read more

7 ways to use pay per click marketing to promote books You can do a lot to promote books online for free. So why would you pay for ads? Because they’re cost-effective - and they work. Read more

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The new Kindle isn’t innovative at all. That’s a good thing - WIRED "I don’t want Alexa in a Kindle", writes Lauren Goode. Here’s why.

£10m immersive storytelling project to focus on the development of technology in the arts - The Drum A £10 million project to support the development of immersive technologies in the creative industries is being launched.

Fiction as future: vision, technology and our accelerating present - Forbes Even more than in the past, fiction will become one of the essential capabilities for our future, reports Robert Wolcott.

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While the publishing world gathers at Frankfurt Book Fair, our judges have been poring over the stellar list of entries we have received. Announced this afternoon at the Fair, the four shortlists are below! Many congratulations to all of the shortlistees... The FutureBook Live Awards Shortlists THE FUTUREBOOK CAMPAIGN OF THE YEAR Be More Pirate Be More Pirate / Penguin Random House Gaspard the Fox Graffeg Lily Allen's My Thoughts Exactly Bonnier Books UK BOSH! HQ, HarperCollins The Retreat by Mark Edwards  Amazon Publishing Like A Woman Penguin Random House UK StoryCastle HarperCollins THE BOOKTECH STARTUP OF THE YEAR Bookabees Bookful Commaful Publica The Pound Project THE FUTUREBOOK OF THE YEAR Life on Earth (Audiobook) HarperCollins Publishers Only Human (Audiobook) Penguin Random House The Ghostkeeper's Journal and Field Guide Carlton Books The Real Thing Amazon Publishing The Tallowmere Annual Faber Music WatAdventure in Australia WatAdventure THE FUTUREBOOK PODCAST OF THE YEAR Down the Rabbit Hole Katherine Woodfine, Melissa Cox and Louise Lamont Not Another Book Podcast PostColonial Child, Bookshy and Books and Rhymes Simplify Blinkist Mostly Lit Clarissa Pabi, Alex Reads, Raifa Rafiq and Derek Owusu The Penguin Podcast Penguin Random House Story Shed Jake Harris The Bestseller Experiment Mark Stay & Mark Desvaux As for the FutureBook Person of the Year? You’ll have to wait until the conference to find out who scoops the crown for that, as well - and to find out who the overall winners are in each category (you can see a summary of all the shortlists here). Only ONE day left to register at FBF Early Bird prices  Our fantastic 3 for 2 offer is also available on standard price tickets and is the ideal solution for teams who would like to attend together. View more information here.  BOOK ONLINE HERE Conference venue: etc.Venues, 155 Bishopsgate, Liverpool St, London, EC2M 3YD Awards queries: Hilary.Bell@thebookseller.com Speaker enquiries: Molly.Flatt@thebookseller.com Sponsorship opportunities: Emma.Lowe@thebookseller.com Have a question? Call us on +44 (0)203 358 0386.  Sponsors and Partners:

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Publishing with vision Wed 10 Oct 18

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'Readers don’t really want to have the book reinvented': how Ampersand is reinvigorating print We catch up with Alice Revel, founder of Reading in Heels—a female-focused book and lifestyle subscription box—which made the BookTech pitch-off at the FutureBook 2017 conference. Read more

'We were taking a step into the unknown' Japhet Asher, the Carlton’s digital director and author of The Ghostkeeper’s Journal and Field Guide, explains why it is the publisher’s most ambitious AR book yet. Read more

From zero to hero A recent EU ruling could have huge ramifications for the digital market, says Publishers Association's chief executive Stephen Lotinga. Should the UK government follow its continental neighbours in acting fast? Read more

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How do brands become iconic? - American Marketing Association Brands must nurture what makes them iconic instead of what makes them appear new and shiny, according to Soon Yu, author of Iconic Advantage.

3 rules for writing in the 21st century - Medium When it comes to words, nothing’s the way it used to be. Reading is simpler than ever, but was never harder to do. So how can we, the creators, keep up?

New study confirms growing up in a home filled with books is good for you - Mental Floss Apparently, "home library size is positively related to higher levels of digital literacy”.

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