I was on a plane.

So, while you wretched lot were boozing it up at the FutureBook Conference, listening to Charlie Redmayne tell you true things about branding and all kinds of other coolness, I was doing a seven and a half hour prison sentence with a furious fifteen month old and a vast quantity of projectile humous. You lucky lucky lucky lucky lucky people. Read more »

 In March this year, FutureBook presented the first ever awards for 'digital innovation' across publishing. We had 93 entries from all around the world. Building on this success we are announcing the next phase of these awards.

You can enter 1 or more of the 6 categories. Categories have changed slightly since last time to reflect rapid change in the industry.  Read more »

So, I'm blogging this from a cafe on a device which doesn't really fall in love with the Futurebook backend (arf arf) so please forgive any iffy formatting. The Internet in my bit of London is broken today, because someone dropped a turboflurbabyte retroconfibulator into the ducting or something.

Let us talk of money. Read more »

Over the past couple of months I have had numerous casual conversations with publishing people about Social Commerce and the impact it will have on traditional routes to market. This is a conversation I have also had with several retailers, but there is a unique opportunity for publishing. Read more »

My mother always told me that ‘good things come in small packages’ – but then we are both five foot four – but I think it’s a great way of describing a lot of independent publishers.  Read more »

Author Gavin James Bower has written this post for FutureBook: The future of the book, if you believe the hype, hinges less on publishers and more on one of the retail and technology giants – Apple, Google, Amazon – dominating the space, both in terms of market share and platform.  Read more »

So, Pottermore exists, and it is a thing.

(But don't click on that link until after the 24th of June when the rush has died down a bit.) Read more »

 Osama Bin Laden is dead. Read more »

"Ebooks destroying traditional publishing!" Read more »

More customers equal more revenue, right? But how publishers find those customers is, of course, the challenge. Ultimately, reaching out through as many channels as possible allows publishers to access the widest variety of customers possible. Read more »