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BookMachine interview with Britain's hottest Digital Publisher Hello publishing friends, Frankfurt Audio is the new international marketplace for audio content at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Join us there on Wednesday 16th October at 11.30am for a fascinating interview with Kathryn Taussig (Publishing Director at Bookouture). We will discuss the lessons learned during their remarkable transition into audiobook publishing. Bookouture is Britain's hottest Digital Publisher, acquired by Hachette in 2017. They are outstandingly successful and innovative, and we can't wait to find out more about their operations. Click to find out about Frankfurt Audio events You can also try out the other carefully programmed events and training opportunities this Autumn, by picking from the list below. BookMachine Unplugged 2019: Talking Audio 6.30pm - late, 25th September 2019 | Century Club, London £10 (Free for BookMachine Members)  Audio isn’t just about one format of a publishing programme. It has the potential enhance your list as well as the publishing industry as a whole. Join our panel of passionate audio publishers for an insightful look at how far audio publishing can take your business in 2019. Book ticket BookMachine Unplugged 2019: Talking Design 6.30pm - late, 13th November 2019 | Century Club, London £10 (Free for BookMachine Members)  Join our panel for an intriguing discussion on how design thinking can transform a business. Hear from an organisational behaviour expert on the theory, as well as a Creative-turned-board-member on the practice. And get inspired by the insights from a Creative Director who will show how design thinking really does make a huge difference. Book ticket Understanding Facebook: Ads training for publishers 9am – 1pm, 26th November 2019 | North Greenwich September price: £139+VAT (BookMachine Members pay £99+VAT)  BookMachine Works is running a training session for publishing professionals who need a deeper Understanding of Facebook Ads, either for managing a team/agency; or for setting up your own campaigns. Book ticket Understanding InDesign: Foundation course 10am – 5pm, 27th November 2019 | North Greenwich September price: £275+VAT (BookMachine Members pay £210+VAT)  This one day course introduces the best techniques to use for professional book creation and will lead you through practical exercises using professional techniques to build a book from scratch. No prior experience of InDesign is assumed. Book ticket Warmest wishes, Laura Summers (BookMachine, Co-founder) Copyright© 2019 BookMachine, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: BookMachine 6 Mitre Passage (10th Floor) Greenwich Peninsula London, - SE10 0ER United Kingdom

Events | Membership | Training | Industry insights | Publishing tips | Hire us Hello publishing friends, With just two weeks to go, we wanted to make sure you were in the loop about BookMachine Unplugged: Talking Audio on Wednesday 25th September. This is our very first audio-focussed event, and it will provide publishers large and small with market insight from successful audio publishing teams. Our host for the evening is Louise Newton (Audio Editor, Little, Brown Group and BookMachine Editorial Board member). She will be joined by Sarah Shrubb (Audio Publisher, Hachette Audio), Paul Stark (Audio & Digital Manager, Orion Publishing Group), Catherine Daly (Audio Editor, Faber & Faber) and Helena Sheffield (Marketing & Communications Manager, Penguin Random House Audio). Book tickets here If you haven't attended an Unplugged event before and want to get a better understanding of what it is all about, you can watch interviews with previous guests on our Youtube channel here. All BookMachine Unplugged events are free for BookMachine Members. Thank you to everyone who has worked so hard on programming this event, especially to Suzanne Kavanagh and Louise Newton. Thanks to our Unplugged 2019 SPONSORS PTC provides flexible training courses delivered by tutors with significant industry experience and recognised by the Publishing Qualifications Board. Supadu is an e-commerce and website provider for trade and academic publishers of all sizes. Typefi is a global leader in automated publishing, helping people around the world publish their content in more formats. We hope to see you there! Laura & the BookMachine Team © BookMachine 2019 | We love your books

BookMachine Update 2019 Hello publishing friends, Here is a list of all the BookMachine events and training courses you can sign up to between now and the end of the year. Everything we do is focussed on helping publishing professionals develop. By coming together we prepare ourselves for what the industry is set to become. We hope you'll join us for the journey! BookMachine Meets Bloomsbury Publishing 6pm - 8pm, 19th September 2019 | Bloomsbury Publishing £15 - £20+VAT (member tickets have sold out) Step inside Bloomsbury Publishing as we go into their London headquarters for a closer look at how they stay creative and strive to push the boundaries of publishing. Book ticket BookMachine Unplugged 2019: Talking Audio 6.30pm - late, 25th September 2019 | Century Club, London £10 (Free for BookMachine Members)  Audio isn’t just about one format of a publishing programme. It has the potential enhance your list as well as the publishing industry as a whole. Join our panel of passionate audio publishers for an insightful look at how far audio publishing can take your business in 2019. Book ticket BookMachine Unplugged 2019: Talking Design 6.30pm - late, 13th November 2019 | Century Club, London £10 (Free for BookMachine Members)  Join our panel for an intriguing discussion on how design thinking can transform a business. Hear from an organisational behaviour expert on the theory, as well as a Creative-turned-board-member on the practice. And get inspired by the insights from a Creative Director who will show how design thinking really does make a huge difference. Book ticket Understanding Facebook: Ads training for publishers 9am – 1pm, 26th November 2019 | North Greenwich September price: £139+VAT (BookMachine Members pay £99+VAT)  This one day course introduces the best techniques to use for professional book creation and will lead you through practical exercises using professional techniques to build a book from scratch. No prior experience of InDesign is assumed. Book ticket Understanding InDesign: Foundation course 10am – 5pm, 27th November 2019 | North Greenwich September price: £275+VAT (BookMachine Members pay £210+VAT)  This one day course introduces the best techniques to use for professional book creation and will lead you through practical exercises using professional techniques to build a book from scratch. No prior experience of InDesign is assumed. Book ticket See you soon! Laura Summers (BookMachine, Co-founder) Copyright© 2019 BookMachine, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: BookMachine 6 Mitre Passage (10th Floor) Greenwich Peninsula London, - SE10 0ER United Kingdom

Events | Membership | Training | Industry insights | Publishing tips | Hire us BookMachine Monthly Design | Tech | Editorial | Marketing | Production | Business | Audio Hello! September is here. Who else is ready for this? We are super excited about the Autumn 'term' - with the IPG Conference this month, Frankfurt Book Fair next month, Futurebook in December. We are also busy plotting a whole host of BookMachine events and training sessions for 2020 and beyond. You can browse our 2019 events and training courses here, and tomorrow we will drop you a line giving you more detail about each of these. Whilst we are here, BookMachine partner, The Publishing Training Centre would like us to remind you about their expert-led courses. As with everything we do at BookMachine, they are also designed to make an immediate, positive difference back at the office. The courses are delivered by tutors with significant industry experience. BookMachine members get a 15% discount on all courses. EDITORIAL What Editors Want: tips from the experts for editorial success Philip Connor I interviewed 15 editors whose work I admire for my new podcast, What Editors Want, to find out what they look for in a book and what tips they have for other editors. Here’s some of what I learnt along the way: Read more TECH What publishers need to know about git (distributed version control system) Anna Cunnane Git is a free to use distributed version control software for tracking changes in software development. However, the benefits of using a fully-fledged version control system like git don’t just apply to writing software. Read more BUSINESS OF PUBLISHING Agile working: How SAGE’s agile office supports cross-team collaboration Tamara Navaratnam One afternoon a few weeks ago I was in that state of high productivity which is fuelled by the panic of an upcoming holiday. On my ‘absolutely must get done before going away’ list were a number of items I needed to discuss with Amy Maher... Read more AUDIO Something old, something new: the story behind Audible’s Hag podcast Harriet Poland A few days after I’d joined the company I sat down with one of our producers and we began thinking through ideas for a themed short story collection. Read more DESIGN Vector graphics: a no-nonsense guide Rich Hardiman The time has come to talk of vector graphics. Of resolution and .ai formats. Of bitmap art and tricks. So your standard bit of artwork made in Photoshop or the like will be a bitmap (not the file format, words can mean two things). Read more Thanks to our SPONSORS See you all soon!  Laura & the BookMachine Team ©  BookMachine 2019 | We love your books

BookMachine in November Hello publishing friends, When your Instagram feed is full of people sunning themselves on golden beaches, and you are sat at your desk, it’s easy to think that you’re missing out! Well you’re not. Your colleagues might be living it up on holiday but they are missing the news about two training courses   - Understanding Facebook and InDesign Foundation, both officially announced today. (BookMachine members, you should have received your discount codes, please email us if you haven’t.) Understanding Facebook: Ads training for publishers 9am - 1pm, 26th November 2019 | Ravensbourne, London Early bird: £139+VAT (BookMachine Members pay £99+VAT)  BookMachine Works is running a training session for publishing professionals who need a deeper Understanding of Facebook Ads, either for managing a team/agency; or for setting up your own campaigns. Book ticket Understanding InDesign: Foundation Course 10am – 5pm, 27th November 2019 | Ravensbourne, London Early bird: £225+VAT (BookMachine Members pay £210+VAT)  This one day course introduces the best techniques to use for professional book creation and will lead you through practical exercises using professional techniques to build a book from scratch. No prior experience of InDesign is assumed. Book ticket See you soon! Laura Summers (BookMachine, Co-founder) Copyright© 2019 BookMachine, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: BookMachine 6 Mitre Passage (10th Floor) Greenwich Peninsula London, - SE10 0ER United Kingdom

Events | Membership | Training | Industry insights | Publishing tips | Hire us BookMachine Monthly Design | Tech | Editorial | Marketing | Production | Business | Audio Hello! It's 'Out of Office' season. We hope that those of you who are going away have the best time, and have plenty of great books to read! If you would like to recommend a book to the BookMachine community, just drop us a line on Twitter and we will spread the word. For those of you who find yourselves at your desk this sunny August, here is the latest from the BookMachine blog. Thank you as always to Abbie Headon, the BookMachine Editorial Board and all of our writers who ensure that BookMachine continues to be the one-stop-shop for you to visit throughout your publishing career. EDITORIAL How to handle conversations that begin with “I have a good idea for a book” Anne Trubek About 82% of Americans think they have a good book idea, as I have deduced from my study of people I meet in airports and at Belt events. Now, it’s definitely a very feel-good and motivational thing to say sure, everyone has a book in them, but I do not believe this. Read more MARKETING Facebook Advertising: the small publisher’s secret weapon Kaz Harrison Did you know the amount of time we spend on social media platforms each day has increased by a whopping 58% in the last 6 years? The average Gen Z user now dedicates 3 hours a day to scrolling his or her newsfeed. Read more AUDIO A million downloads and counting: Beyond the Book podcast Christopher Kenneally In this interview, Christopher Kenneally of the Copyright Clearance Center takes us behind the scenes of the Beyond the Book podcast, which has been broadcasting news and analysis from across the industry since 2006. Read more BUSINESS OF PUBLISHING Hatching a brand-new bookshop: interview with Pigeon Books Melissa J. Davies I think on the one hand it’s a great time to open a bookshop; there have been articles in the Guardian and positive news recently about how indie bookshops are growing despite the current economic climate, but then on the other hand we have the looming threat of a no-deal Brexit that will potentially throw us all into chaos and oblivion. Read more Thanks to our SPONSORS See you all soon!  Laura & the BookMachine Team ©  BookMachine 2019 | We love your books