Alastair Nash is among featured speakers who will bring especially astute messages to publishing from other, nearby sectors on Friday (14th November) in Europe’s busiest publishing conference, The FutureBook , at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in Westminster. Bookings will close Tuesday the 11th, so hurry to secure your seat. We are fond of… Read More
#PorterMeets Crystal Mahey-Morgan: 'Beyond good will'
At the FutureBook Conference on 14th November, Crystal Mahey-Morgan says she intends to to what The Bookseller editor Philip Jones asked for in his Turn up the volume post. Jones, in that reflection on a Frankfurt Book Fair that seemed too quiet to some of us, wrote about #FutureBook14, as we’re hashtagging it, this way:… Read More
16-24-Year-Old Readers And Their Books: #PorterMeets Luke Mitchell
With all the pleasure any good teenager has in proving his elders wrong, the 16-to-24-year-old age group might seem at times to delight in confusing marketers. And at Thursday’s The Bookseller Children’s Conference, in London, some of Luke Mitchell’s comments to the audience will help sort out what may be behind that demographic’s role in… 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
Night Of The Social Media
“Your ignorance is stunning!”…That line got one of my Twitter followers muted recently. And she has stayed muted. And she will stay muted. I only regret that I have but one chance to mute her. Despite this follower’s flattery — I’d never speak of my own ignorance in such vaunted terms — she is one author I will… Read More
#PorterMeets The Bookseller's Alice Ryan
When everyone sits down to the midnight feast this weekend at FutureBook Hack in the University College London’s Roberts Building, they can toast, among others, one Alice Ryan. The conference and community manager for The Bookseller is certainly managing some major community now, a collective of more than 100 developers, designers, entrepreneurs, engineers, coders, programmers,… Read More
The Bookseller's #PorterMeets: Penguin Random House's Dan Franklin
You could hardly find somebody standing nearer to the center of the intersection of “discoverability” and “know thy consumer” than Dan Franklin. As Digital Publisher to the Penguin Random House empire, he has responsibilities with the Vintage, Penguin General, Cornerstone and Penguin Press divisions. He could be forgiven for needing something of a map to… Read More
#PorterMeets Peter Meyers
“Much of the energy and innovation I see,” Peter Meyers tells me, “is around ‘more’ — more backlist, more sharing, more videos. I think what’s still underserved and unexplored is better tools for readers. How do we do things like explore inside a book, capture what we’ve learned, recall what we’ve read? That books in… Read More
#PorterMeets Kobo's Michael Tamblyn for London's The Bookseller
On October 12th, Kobo had a significant catalogue of self-published titles in the UK. Tens of thousands of authors and hundreds of thousands of titles, a thriving part of our UK business. Living the dream, as they say.
On October 14th, we had zero self-published titles available in the UK from zero authors and our 300-year-old retail partner had suspended their web presence. Read More
#PorterMeets Dominique Raccah for London's The Bookseller
The “Porter Anderson Meets” series of weekly interviews starts with a Monday real-time Twitter interview you can follow. Watch our tweets at @Porter_Anderson and #PorterMeets for news of upcoming interviews, then come along — you can join the interview and pop in a question for our guest if you like. Read More