FutureBook

The FutureBook conference and awards is happening today.

Here are a few basics:

Hashtag: #fbook12

Venue: QEII Conference Centre, Broad Sanctuary, Westminster, London, SW1P 3EE Read more »

E-book pricing analyst Rachel Willmer asks the question on her blog: is it possible to get an e-book with a sensible price into the Kindle Top 10, or do they need to be price slashed? Willmer, who is on a pricing panel at next week's FutureBook Conference, has analysed e-book prices in relation to their Kindle ranking over the past week, Read more »

Publishing has long been a bastion of prestige and influence, smoke and mirrors protecting what was sacred to those inside. Then along came Amazon, ebooks, digital and the rise of self-publishing. Now the old approach is hurting publishing, because this new world moves so fast that only the agile can hope to keep up. So what’s the answer? 

(1) Transparency in experimentation, failure and success Read more »

Ahead of this year’s FutureBook Conference, The Bookseller's Felicity Wood talks to keynote speaker Charlie Redmayne, c.e.o. of Pottermore, about building brands and harnessing fans.   Read more »

The 2014 results are in and Apple’s iMacPad has for the first time dropped out of the top three ebook devices globally. It was a close run thing with readers finally focussing all their attention on pure ebook readers and dropping their use of tablets for books.

[To remove any doubt, and keep the lawyers at bay, what follows is a pure work of fiction. I do not, or have not possessed a time travel device and my psychic powers are not as good as they may appear. However, anything I am proved right on I reserve the right to say ‘I told you so’]. Read more »

Who’d be an editor? What can be the best job in publishing has become something like the opposite of that for many, many reasons – so many it is hard to know where to start, but here are my top 5.

1. Everyone else does your job. Read more »

Clark Kokich nailed it for me in this article in Forbes: "It’s less about advertising and more about creating an experience that transforms what it means to be a customer of a brand." Basically, the persuasion industry is in free fall. Read more »

This is my final push to encourage you to book onto the conference. The process of putting this conference together has been challenging to say the least. It’s almost become a cliché to say that the publishing industry is at a pivotal moment, but change and disruption seem to be the only constants this year. Read more »

It was impossible not to enjoy Amazon's evisceration at the hands of MPs earlier this week as the internet retailer sought to answer no questions whatsoever about its tax affairs. But fun aside, the session told us as much about our legislators as it did about Amazon. Read more »

An illustrated book publisher in search of growth has to look for new outlets and new opportunities. Back in early 2011 – in what might be termed the Paleozoic era of digital publishing – an ad-hoc meeting at the London Book Fair resulting from a daily Bookseller interview proved the catalyst for Amber Books to enter the world of online digital retailing.  Read more »