One of the latest projects we have designed is the digibook portal for Macmillan English's latest ELT course Breakthrough Plus. To get a sneaky peak at the portal design have a look at the YouTube video below.
Take a look at our case study of Life - the new adult elt series to be published by National Geographic Learning & Cengage. The case study shows you how we transformed the text and made the most of the beautiful NG images, whilst sticking to a demanding publishing schedule, commissioning artwork and licensing the [...]
For those of you who follow our blog regularly you will notice that we have been writing for BookMachine and this interview with Nick Robinson was originally posted on their site on 3/9/12. This interview is with Nick Robinson about being the first ELT Agent and how he set up his company ‘Nick Robinson ELT [...]
Welcome to the world of Inanimate Alice, a truly digital novel that has taken the educational world by storm. The idea for Alice first came about in 2003 and the team (Ian Harper, Chris Joseph and award winning author Kate Pullinger) published the first episode in 2005. The story is told by Alice through 10 [...]
In the first of three videos, Judith Watts, lecturer on the Publishing MA course at Kingston University asks John B. Thompson his views on how Publishing Houses should be surviving the digital revolution. To see the original post visit the Kingston Publishing blog here.
After a busy few days in New York the O'Reilly Media team have uploaded most of the presentations from the conference held this week. You can have a look at what's available and download them all here. It's also worth having a look on Twitter under the conferences official hashtag #toccon for delegates and speakers [...]
We are going to be visiting Publishing Expo (28-29 Feb) and the London Book Fair (16-18 April) and would like to invite you to meet up with us for a coffee. We love getting out and about, meeting new people and bumping into familiar faces. So if you would like to arrange a time to [...]
Our site stats tell us that these are our 5 most popular blog posts from 2011: 1 How is education being transformed by the tablet? 2 An interview with one of our illustrators 3 Adding design led technology to the printed page 4 Sub-Saharan Africa in the age of digital publishing 5 Publishing Now: The [...]
Publishing houses, as we know them today, have in essence been around since the 15th Century. Within that time they have had to develop and embrace many technological advances; but never has the industry had to face new ideology and change on such an unprecedented scale as it is having to now with the move [...]