“Join the crowd” on Friday meant jumping in on our #FutureChat conversation with The FutureBook.net community about all things crowd-ish — crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, a crowded season of releases and new ideas. Even as I create this recap, an email has arrived offering “your very own piece of PeerIndex!” (Exclamation point theirs.) The London-based social analytics platform… Read More
A Chuffed Market's Children's Conference: #PorterMeets Charlotte Eyre
If you walked into publishing right now and stopped one of us to ask, “What’s the healthiest, happiest part of the business to get into?” — the answer you well might get is “children’s books!” The exclamation point would be there, yes. They’re a generally exuberant lot these days, the children’s books folks. And why not? Thanks to Charlotte Eyre’s… Read More
Digital publishing and children: #FutureChat recap
Are apps simply not apt for youngsters? With The Bookseller Children’s Conference ahead — #kidsconf14, as it’s hashtagged, is on 25th September at Southbank Centre in #London — we were glad to have a chance in Friday’s #FutureChat to look at some of the questions around digital publishing and the children’s market. The Bookseller’s children’s editor Charlotte Eyre set up up… Read More