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 [...]
Continuing with the theme from Sophie's last post for BookMachine on interesting English Language Teaching (ELT) Publishing start-ups, she interviewed Karen Spiller, freelance ELT project manager about her most recent venture with fellow ELT professionals Sue Kay (ELT author) and Karen White (freelance ELT project manager). What is ELT Teacher 2 Writer and who is [...]
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 [...]
If you work in Publishing and haven't yet heard of BookMachine then get yourselves to Oxford for one of the first Book Machine 'Your Events' on Thursday 28th June. PRESS RELEASE BookMachine and Osprey Group host first event in Oxford The popular event for publishing professionals in London, moves to Oxford for the evening. BookMachine [...]
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.
Amy gives us a sneaky peak of one the latest projects to go through the studio. Check back soon for the low down on how the launch party went at the Natural History Museum. Like so many people I look back at my school days with some regret. I wasn’t a bad student at all, [...]
Design considerations for Publishing to a Global Market In a recent FutureBook blog post, which highlighted the ever changing and further reaching audience of the blog, we offered to write an article from our perspective of Publishing for a Global Market. As a design studio that works with Educational Publishers, we have gained an understanding [...]
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 [...]