I’m addicted to Downton Abbey. I’ll admit to loving the costumes a little too much, but it’s the parallels between the Edwardian era and our digital age that really captivate me. Automobiles were a luxury. Electricity was new; the telephone was new. Maggie Smith’s character commented that the era was like an HG Wells novel - and many of her contemporaries didn’t trust the new technology at all! Sounds familiar.  Read more »

The above poster comes from Sarah Houghton, who is the Acting Director for the San Rafael Public Library, Calofornia and writes a blog Librarian in Black Read more »

Three stories catch our eye that all point to a significant trend in the demand to loaning and renting ebooks. Some can be seen to be responding to these changes, whilst others dither, stall and demand it to be on their terms only. Are ebooks just for Christmas and today, or are they really going to be around for life? Do we have to replace those treasured printed titles with a digital library? Read more »

We are delighted to announce that Stephen Page, CEO of Faber and Faber will be talking at the FutureBook conference. He will discuss his vision for a modern day publisher and how you drive change within an organisation. Stephen joins Evan Schnittman and Dominique Raccah on our keynote session. Read more »

Book publishers were at the forefront of app development when the iPad debuted in 2010. Start-ups and corporate giants alike created numerous interactive books that augmented the reading experience with gaming mechanics and cinema-quality animation.  Read more »

2003 was an incredible year for licensed publishing—and terrific for Penguin. It was the year of Finding Nemo. The Disney/Pixar film catapulted tie-in books into the top of the children’s charts worldwide. Penguin’s records were broken again in 2008 when In the Night Garden books had their debut. But times are quickly changing. Read more »

This weekend I came across an interesting observation from 2002 by Alistair McCleery, concerning ‘the general erasure of the human from book history’, being: Read more »