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British Council’s UK Publishing Entrepreneur Trip to India
So, James and Peter from Apt Studio are currently in India on The British Council’s Young Publishing Entrepreneur trip.
James Bridle (producer at Apt) has been shortlisted for his awesome work on Bookkake and Bkkkpr (among other stuff).
Peter Collingridge, Managing Director of Apt, has been shortlisted for Apt’s innovative commercial work in the publishing [...]
Published: January 26, 2009. Read more →
25th Estate: This Is Where We Live (4th Estate)
At last! We can show you the awesome project we were working on earlier this summer.
Press Books – the literary division of HarperCollins, containing 4th Estate and Perennial – approached us in the summer, asking us to come up with ideas for helping them celebrate the forthcoming 25th anniversary of imprint 4th Estate.
We’ve done [...]
Published: December 1, 2008. Read more →
Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook
We’re very pleased to announce that Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook, our collaboration with The Institute for the Future of the Book, is now live.
Several months ago we heard that the Institute was setting up in the UK, and we approached Chris Meade with a view to working with if:book London on a joint project. [...]
Published: November 7, 2008. Read more →
Victoria Barnsley, HarperCollins CEO, on “Publishing: Media’s Last Diehard?”
Last night Victoria Barnsley, Chief Executive and Publisher of HarperCollins UK and International, gave a talk at LSE entitled ‘Publishing: Media’s Last Diehard?’ This is a loose transcription based on my notes, which are a very rough rendition of what was said. May contain errors.
A theme of change, appropriate for the night. Publishing is “standing [...]
Published: November 5, 2008. Read more →
Bookkake
Just a quick one to anyone who doesn’t also read James’ excellent Booktwo; James has just launched his own, print-on-demand, “dirty books” imprint Bookkake. The imprint, which was funded by ACE long before James started working with us, does everything that we think a modern publisher should do.
That means PoD, sensible pricing, beautiful design [...]
Published: September 29, 2008. Read more →
eBook Haters – The New Luddites?
I was in Waterstones’ flagship London Piccadilly store yesterday, and decided to take a look at their in-store presentation of the Sony Reader. (And before you accuse me of being a hater, I am a fan of electronic books, despite some people’s interpretation of previous posts.)
The good news is that I was told that Waterstones [...]
Published: September 25, 2008. Read more →
ABC3D
My wife just came back from a trip to Mantova, Italy. And she brought me this lovely pop-up book, which I had already seen on YouTube, but didn’t know it actually existed.
It’s really quite astonishing.
More about the book from the US publishers, although I think it originates in Italy.
Published: September 9, 2008. Read more →
Open Seas; High Waves – The Perfect Storm?
It’s an exciting day – the release of the Sony Reader sees the first concerted, anticipated, co-ordinated foray into selling electronic books in the UK. Publishers have been rushing to negotiate deals with agents (and retailers) and prepare launch lists of titles. Digitisation has been advancing at pace. Great news!
However, I am concerned that two [...]
Published: September 4, 2008. Read more →
The Sony / Waterstones digital book future (from a retailer’s perspective)
Just back from holiday, I saw this phenomenally committed and integrated campaign from Waterstones for the launch of the game-changing Sony Reader (available on pre-order from the stationery department of their website):
Published: August 16, 2008. Read more →
Packing it in.
I’m packing for holiday, off for two weeks, debating my reading plans, and how ambitious they are.
So far, I’ve packed:
Personal Days by Ed Park, Jonathan Cape
Rogue Male, Geoffrey Household, Penguin, very secondhand
Americana, Don DeLillo (Vintage) – have given up on this one before, despite being a big DD and advertising fan.
I kind of think [...]
Published: July 30, 2008. Read more →