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Poetry platform Poetizer hopes to put the soul back into social media

By Molly Flatt

Comment editor at The Bookseller

This Prague-based startup hopes to connect poetry lovers through a social network driven by free speech and shared values. The pitch Poetizer is... Read more

Publishing innovators identify the big disruptions for books in 2019

By Molly Flatt

Comment editor at The Bookseller

2018 saw FutureBook launch the FutureBook 40, its annual list of exciting publishing innovators in the UK. It's a mix of publishers, agents, writers, booksellers,... Read more

The big question for books now: how do we make people care?

By Molly Flatt

Comment editor at The Bookseller

How do we make people care about what we do? The slightly weird days between Christmas and New Year - often grey and a little bit... Read more

HeyWow! hopes to crack the children's book market with new personalisation software

By Molly Flatt

Comment editor at The Bookseller

The personalised kids' books trend keeps on trucking - and the duo behind this Scottish startup thinks their 'doing' books, featuring real children's faces, give it an edge.... Read more

Dr Barry Clayton and the strange world of Amazon book reviews

By Alex Christofi

Senior commissioning editor at Oneworld

Dr Barry Clayton loves to review books on Amazon. In fact, he reviews so many books that he is, at the time of writing, the... Read more

Finally, academic publishing is catching up with the future

By Esther Harris

Co-founder at Bookollective

Santa hasn’t even come down the chimney yet but the talk in academic publishing definitely has a feel of 1 Jan about it - everyone at... Read more

PSYT aims to be the Headspace of self-development books

By Molly Flatt

Comment editor at The Bookseller

How can you help readers turn self-development books into self-development reality? London-based startup PSYT believes it has the answer... Read more

How do you get busy online addicts to notice your book?

By Damian Dutton

CEO at BeeLiked

Hello, is there anyone listening? If you have lifted your head to answer such a question during the morning commute, you may have noticed the... Read more

The British Library recorded every keystroke it took to write this novel - now the data is out

By Molly Flatt

Comment editor at The Bookseller

C M Taylor teaches on the Publishing Degree at Oxford International Centre for Publishing. He's also a freelance editor and an author who has been nominated for the... Read more

"It's been a revelation": why Simon Mayor and Hilary James's new book uses AR

By Molly Flatt

Comment editor at The Bookseller

Last Friday saw the annual FutureBook of the Year Award go to The Ghostkeeper's Journal and Field Guide, "the world's first augmented reality novel" written and produced... Read more

Amazon is more dangerous than ever—and publishers need a plan

By Alice Revel

Founder at The Ampersand Book Company

Amazon’s dubious ethical employment standards are nothing new. You know the ecommerce giant is unrivalled when it comes to logistics and infrastructure. And their unscrupulous... Read more

What do readers really want? Insights from FutureBook Live 2018

By Jon Reed

Founder at Publishing Talk

If you want to hear a futurologist quote a surprisologist, if you want to see a firestarter shudder at the phrase ‘choose your own adventure,’... Read more

How to pitch your publishing startup

By Emmanuel Nataf

Founder at Reedsy

“A book is a startup,” Peter Armstrong, the author of LeanPub, said in a speech: both are “risky, highly creative endeavors undertaken by a... Read more

F.A.I.L. faster with the book industry's 2018 ThinkSprint

By Nick Coveney

Publisher relations and content lead, UK & ANZ at Rakuten Kobo

This time last year, at the FutureBook 2017 conference, I had the pleasure of helping the co-founders of ThinkSprint show publishers how they could gain a... Read more