FutureBook

Today we are running FutureBook's Innovation Workshop, in association with my own website The Literary Platform.

It’s been an extraordinary year for book publishers. Every day we seem to witness a new twist or turn of events – many are calling it the Wild West and you can understand why – as these are challenging times for publishers. Read more »

There’s been a lot of talk about ‘discoverability’ recently - as Stephen Page from Faber points out in The Guardian, it’s the ‘new favourite buzzword to bandy about’. Read more »

Next week The Literary Platform will celebrate its first birthday. At launch we saw FutureBook had just been unveiled too (ok, a week before us goddammit) and although we were covering some similar ground, FutureBook was focusing predominantly on what was happening inside the book industry, while The Literary Platform has a focus on what people were doing from outside of the publishing industry. One word keeps creeping into the digital publishing debate again and again - collaboration. Read more »

Last week design and innovation consultancy IDEO released their thoughts on the Future of the Book  in a neatly executed video. The industry response was mixed – ranging from ‘seen it all before' to ‘wow, how clever'. Read more »