BookMachine Unplugged Feb 21st

The second event in the BookMachine Unplugged series kicks off at 6.30pm on 21st February. With guest speakers providing attendees with insights into their collaborative projects the night promises to be another great event for the Publishing industry and those on the periphery. Sophie, Mike and Kathryn will be there from emc design and we're [...]

O'Reilly's TOC announces Publishing StartUp Finalists with 2 UK companies

This week O'Reilly's Tools of Change announced their 10 Publishing StartUp Finalists and we are so pleased to hear that 2 of our favourite UK companies, Bookmachine.me and ValoBox have made it to the final! We want to wish them both our congratulations and it's great news that their hard work and brilliant ideas have [...]

Interview with local design teacher Andrew Buck on revision app ExamPal

Late last year Sophie interviewed local design teacher Andrew Buck from Hastingsbury Upper School for BookMachine. cost of ivermectin in india He and his design students have created an app that is hopefully going to transform the way students can prepare and succeed when it comes to the dreaded exam season. ivermectin evidence Whilst the [...]

Interview with Alastair Horne from CUP on collaboration within Publishing & Race to Learn

Cambridge University Press and the Williams F1 team collaborated in 2009 to create Race to Learn, a fun, engaging educational programme that fits into the national curriculum. I asked Alastair Horne, who was the project lead for Cambridge, about it. Can you give us a brief insight into what the project is, who’s it for [...]

Can we save the Publishing industry through collaboration..?

… Well BookMachine does and so do we! سباق الحصان Tonight emc design is sponsoring BookMachine Unplugged which sees the beta launch of BookMachine.me a new platform and network for the people that make Publishing happen. The event has 4 guest speakers (Eric Huang of Penguin, Dean Johnson of Brandwidth, Alastair Horne of CUP and [...]

Eric Huang of Penguin Books on collaboration & re-defining the role of Publishers

A few weeks ago Sophie interviewed Eric Huang for BookMachine, in the run up to the Unplugged event which emc design are proudly sponsoring. Eric talked about his role at Penguin and how they are working and collaborating with new companies to strengthen their offer as a publisher. There is no doubt that Penguin is [...]

Our 5 top publishing partnerships and collaborations

In the run up to the launch of BookMachine.me I’ve picked out some of the top publishing partnerships and collaborations around. I hope it gives you some inspiration to get out there and start collaborating! And to also come to the launch event Unplugged (which we're sponsoring)  on Wednesday 7th November. 1) Mind Candy and [...]

Interview with Nick Robinson on being the first ELT agent

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 [...]

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Bring Your Own Technology

Our article for BookMachine was originally posted on Monday 6th August here. We keep hearing that America is a few years ahead of us in terms of technology. If this is the case then UK Publishers, Schools and Educators take note. A recent report from the The Consortium for School Networking in America has highlighted [...]

Writing for The Round

The changing nature of publishing is forcing Publishing houses, writers, authors – content creators – to think differently, experiment and look at working with new people in new ways. Award winning ELT authors Lindsay Clandfield and Luke Meddings are doing just this. They have set up The Round, which aims to bring together creative people [...]