53: People and technology: the future of making books
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...
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20 of 56 episodes52: Publishing people: build teams and careers in 2020
This year has shown once again how important our teams and business relationships are - and that our needs can change in a heartbeat. Join o...
51: Publishing innovation: how do we manage change?
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 prepa...
50: Why start a publishing business? (Best Bits)
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...
49: Passion and idealism (Hugh McGuire interview)
Hugh McGuire is co-founder and Executive Director of the Rebus Foundation , the founder of Librivox , and the founder of Pressbooks , which...
48: Follow your customer (Miral Sattar interview)
Miral Sattar is CEO and Founder of LearnSelfPublishingFast and of Bibliocrunch , an award-winning marketplace that connects authors with vet...
47: Readers, users and scale (Emmanuel Kolade interview)
Emmanuel Kolade is the founder of Shulph , a book-technology company focussed on multi-format reading experiences. He comes from technology...
46: From German Literature to blockchain (Sebastian Posth interview)
Sebastian Posth is a serial entrepreneur and consultant for the publishing industry, with a focus on digital publishing and innovation. His...
45: Access to ideas and nature (Helen Bagnall interview)
Helen Bagnall is co-founder of Salon London, co-founder of the Transmission Prize for artists who promote bold, beautiful ideas, and also Di...
44: Keeping a broad focus (Lorraine Shanley interview)
Lorraine Shanley is co-founder and President of Market Partners International, who are consultants for the changing environment of publishin...
43: Following the river (Richard Nash interview)
Richard Nash is a coach, strategist, and serial entrepreneur in new and traditional media. He led partnerships and content at the culture di...
42: Finding new voices (Kevin Duffy interview)
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...
41: Growing open literature (Sean Preston interview)
Sean Preston is the founder and editor of short-fiction platform Open Pen, whose self-titled magazine has been described as "More like a sho...
40: From personal plaything to book business (Jens Tröger interview)
Jens Tröger, the founder of Bookalope is an experienced software engineer and computer science researcher with over two decades of industry...
39: Learn by building (Ron Martinez interview)
Ron Martinez is the Founder and Principal of design and product-innovation firm Invention Arts, and also a prolific inventor with >60 US...
38: Building a grammar for augmented reality (Michael Kowalski interview)
Michael Kowalski is the founder of Storienteer, which is exploring augmented-reality, as well as the programme director of the Confluence co...
37: Just-in-time learning (Ryan Morison interview)
Ryan Morison is a serial entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience across two continents developing and commercialising digital publishi...
36: Curation as marketing (Gary Price interview)
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 c...
Christmas holidays!
Thanks to you all for listening to the podcast this year. It's been so interesting for me to talk to so many fantastic people from our indus...
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35: Technology, process and people (Bill Rosenblatt interview)
Bill Rosenblatt is a media-industry commentator on intellectual property and technology, President of GiantSteps Media Technology Strategies...