This year has shown once again how technology is vital to the making of books - and that our needs can change in a heartbeat, but also that people are always at the heart of what we do. Join our panel to discuss questions like: does tech ever c

Publishing people: build teams and careers in 2020

Oct 20th, 2020 55m 12s

This year has shown once again how important our teams and business relationships are - and that our needs can change in a heartbeat. Join our panel to discuss questions like: is there such a thing as a career these days, and how do you build o

Publishing innovation: how do we manage change?

Oct 14th, 2020 56m 19s

This year has proved, more than ever, that it's impossible to predict the future. But given change is inevitable, how do we manage and prepare for change? Our panel discusses questions like: how do we identify where change is needed in our busi

Why start a publishing business? (Best Bits)

Apr 16th, 2019 24m 38s

For episode 50, I've looked back at the past year of interviews and put together a compilation of some of the best bits - or, at least, some memorable ones for me! In this episode, I look back at why people set up a publishing business, whether

Passion and idealism (Hugh McGuire interview)

Apr 9th, 2019 30m 15s

Hugh McGuire is co-founder and Executive Director of the Rebus Foundation, the founder of Librivox, and the founder of Pressbooks, which helps publishers and authors easily create professionally designed print and ebook editions of their books.

Follow your customer (Miral Sattar interview)

Apr 2nd, 2019 29m 37s

Miral Sattar is CEO and Founder of LearnSelfPublishingFast and of Bibliocrunch, an award-winning marketplace that connects authors with vetted editors, designers, marketers and more. She's worked in the media industries for 11 years, including

Readers, users and scale (Emmanuel Kolade interview)

Mar 26th, 2019 31m 38s

Emmanuel Kolade is the founder of Shulph, a book-technology company focussed on multi-format reading experiences. He comes from technology industry where he has spent the last 17 years specialising in human-centred design to build digital produ

From German Literature to blockchain (Sebastian Posth interview)

Mar 19th, 2019 29m 1s

Sebastian Posth is a serial entrepreneur and consultant for the publishing industry, with a focus on digital publishing and innovation. His interests always feature the hot topics, currently including data analytics and blockchain technologies.

Access to ideas and nature (Helen Bagnall interview)

Mar 12th, 2019 30m 18s

Helen Bagnall is co-founder of Salon London, co-founder of the Transmission Prize for artists who promote bold, beautiful ideas, and also Director of the Also Festival of ideas. Before all that, she worked as a writer for Sony Pictures Entertai

Keeping a broad focus (Lorraine Shanley interview)

Mar 5th, 2019 29m 23s

Lorraine Shanley is co-founder and President of Market Partners International, who are consultants for the changing environment of publishing. Before MPI, Lorraine worked at Barnes & Noble, Book of the Month Club and HarperCollins, and now also

Following the river (Richard Nash interview)

Feb 26th, 2019 34m 38s

Richard Nash is a coach, strategist, and serial entrepreneur in new and traditional media. He led partnerships and content at the culture discovery start-up Small Demons and the new media app Byliner, and ran the publisher Soft Skull Press, for

Finding new voices (Kevin Duffy interview)

Feb 19th, 2019 35m 54s

Kevin Duffy is co-founder of Bluemoose Books. Having been in publishing for 20 years back in 2006, he and his wife mortgaged their house to start Bluemoose, with the aim of publishing new and exciting voices. Since then, their books have been s

Growing open literature (Sean Preston interview)

Feb 12th, 2019 33m 33s

Sean Preston is the founder and editor of short-fiction platform Open Pen, whose self-titled magazine has been described as “More like a shot of absinthe than a boring pint of lager,” and is making its first forays into book production. He's a

From personal plaything to book business (Jens Tröger interview)

Feb 5th, 2019 32m 23s

Jens Tröger, the founder of Bookalope is an experienced software engineer and computer science researcher with over two decades of industry experience including Microsoft Xbox, Intel Labs and Oracle Research. He is also a book lover, typophile

Learn by building (Ron Martinez interview)

Jan 29th, 2019 32m 8s

Ron Martinez is the Founder and Principal of design and product-innovation firm Invention Arts, and also a prolific inventor with >60 US patents and many more worldwide in the fields of media, mobile and social technologies, and commerce. He's

Building a grammar for augmented reality (Michael Kowalski interview)

Jan 22nd, 2019 27m 48s

Michael Kowalski is the founder of Storienteer, which is exploring augmented-reality, as well as the programme director of the Confluence conference this February. Before all that, he worked as a software developer at the Guardian and was Head

Just-in-time learning (Ryan Morison interview)

Jan 15th, 2019 29m 9s

Ryan Morison is a serial entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience across two continents developing and commercialising digital publishing solutions, from a digital reading ecosystem, through a multichannel content-management solution to an

Curation as marketing (Gary Price interview)

Jan 8th, 2019 34m 9s

Gary Price is a librarian, author and co-founder of infoDocket (on the web and Twitter), now part of the Library Journal. Before that, he co-founded ResourceShelf and Docuticker, which he edited and ran for ten years. In addition, he's worked a

Technology, process and people (Bill Rosenblatt interview)

Dec 18th, 2018 33m 24s

Bill Rosenblatt is a media-industry commentator on intellectual property and technology, President of GiantSteps Media Technology Strategies, and programme chair of the Copyright and Technology Conferences. In addition, he's spoken at the Davos

Climbing a new ladder (Joanna Penn interview)

Dec 11th, 2018 32m 53s

Joanna Penn is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. She spent more than a decade as an IT consultant, but is now much better known as a writer and independent publisher of thrillers and dark fantasy novels, an award-winning entrep

Flexibility and community (Georgina Atwell interview)

Dec 4th, 2018 33m 26s

Georgina Atwell is the founder of Toppsta, a community for reading, reviewing and discovering great children's books. Before that, she worked at Penguin UK, and also for Apple's iBooks team, which all gives her a unique perspective! In this epi

Metadata and markets (Laura Dawson interview)

Nov 27th, 2018 30m 44s

Laura Dawson is a metadata expert for the media, entertainment and publishing industries, and the Founder/CEO of Numerical Gurus. After years working in and around publishing, she got involved with the International Standard Name Identifier. An

Accidental publishers (Asi Sharabi interview)

Nov 20th, 2018 33m 25s

Asi Sharabi is Co-Founder and CEO of Wonderbly. Before this successful venture into the world of publishing, he spent time as a researcher and lecturer at the LSE, worked at startups, and was MD of Sidekick studios. Now, of course, at Wonderbly

In the global marketplace (Jo Bottrill interview)

Nov 13th, 2018 27m 8s

Jo Bottrill worked for Nature, Taylor & Francis and Cambridge University Press before setting up Out of House Publishing over 11 years ago to help academic and educational publishers to develop, edit and produce their content. In this episode,

Making authors and building brands (Dominique Raccah interview)

Nov 6th, 2018 37m 47s

Dominique Raccah is Founder, Publisher and CEO of Sourcebooks, which has over the years grown to produce everything from children's books to college guides. It is the largest woman-owned book publisher in the USA, as well as the largest trade b