
53: People and technology: the future of making books
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Released every Tuesday, this podcast explores bookish businesses and the fantastic people who create them, looking at why business are started, how they keep going and where we can take them...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Hugh McGuire is co-founder and Executive Director of the Rebus Foundation , the founder of Librivox , and the founder of Pressbooks , which...

Miral Sattar is CEO and Founder of LearnSelfPublishingFast and of Bibliocrunch , an award-winning marketplace that connects authors with vet...

Emmanuel Kolade is the founder of Shulph , a book-technology company focussed on multi-format reading experiences. He comes from technology...

Sebastian Posth is a serial entrepreneur and consultant for the publishing industry, with a focus on digital publishing and innovation. His...

Helen Bagnall is co-founder of Salon London, co-founder of the Transmission Prize for artists who promote bold, beautiful ideas, and also Di...

Lorraine Shanley is co-founder and President of Market Partners International, who are consultants for the changing environment of publishin...

Richard Nash is a coach, strategist, and serial entrepreneur in new and traditional media. He led partnerships and content at the culture di...

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...

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...

Jens Tröger, the founder of Bookalope is an experienced software engineer and computer science researcher with over two decades of industry...

Ron Martinez is the Founder and Principal of design and product-innovation firm Invention Arts, and also a prolific inventor with >60 US...

Michael Kowalski is the founder of Storienteer, which is exploring augmented-reality, as well as the programme director of the Confluence co...

Ryan Morison is a serial entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience across two continents developing and commercialising digital publishi...

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...

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...

Bill Rosenblatt is a media-industry commentator on intellectual property and technology, President of GiantSteps Media Technology Strategies...

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 k...

Georgina Atwell is the founder of Toppsta , a community for reading, reviewing and discovering great children's books. Before that, she work...

Laura Dawson is a metadata expert for the media, entertainment and publishing industries, and the Founder/CEO of Numerical Gurus . After yea...

Asi Sharabi is Co-Founder and CEO of Wonderbly . Before this successful venture into the world of publishing, he spent time as a researcher...

Jo Bottrill worked for Nature, Taylor & Francis and Cambridge University Press before setting up Out of House Publishing over 11 years ago t...

Dominique Raccah is Founder, Publisher and CEO of Sourcebooks, which has over the years grown to produce everything from children's books to...

John Bond is the Co-Founder of WhiteFox , a new breed of publishing services company. He set up WhiteFox after being Marketing Director at V...

Arthur Attwell is a self-described serial adventurer in publishing innovation, and has co-founded several publishing businesses, perhaps mos...

Justine Solomons is a networker extraordinaire and Founder of Byte the Book , which helps writers and publishers to learn more about the pub...

Michael Bhaskar is the Co-Founder of digital publisher Canelo , author of the books The Content Machine and Curation , and also Writer-in-Re...

Nina-Sophia Miralles is the Founder of digital culture magazine Londnr . She is a writer and editor with a focus on arts, culture and lifest...

Fiona Spencer Thomas is a literary agent and book publicist who works with a range of authors on both fiction and non-fiction. In this podca...

Kate Wilson is the Founder and CEO of Nosy Crow , an award-winning child-focused, parent-friendly publisher of children's books. Kate has an...

Chris Meade is a newly-minted Doctor of Nearlyology (not, as I mis-spoke in the introduction to the podcast "Director of Nearlyology"!), as...

Nancy Roberts took time off from a successful career in publishing to work out what she really wanted to do, and how she could continue grow...

Emma Donnan is a ghostwriter, and in this week's podcast we explore the often-overlooked and important work that ghostwriters do. In Emma's...

Justo Hidalgo co-founded 24symbols 8 years ago, and this 'Spotify for Books' contender is still around and successful. In this week's podcas...

Bec Evans is Co-Founder of Prolifiko , the digital productivity coach for writers that uses persuasive technology to help people achieve the...

Emmanuel Nataf is the co-Founder and CEO of Reedsy , a marketplace for authors, editors, designers, marketers and more to come together and...

Tom Chalmers is Founder and MD at the Legend Times Group , and also founded IPR License (now sold to the Frankfurt Book Fair). In this week'...

Syima Aslam co-founded the Bradford Literature Festival in 2014, and in this episode we discuss what makes this festival special, the ways t...

This week, John Espirian and I talk about how to be your own Google (providing the best answers to people's real questions in your areas of...

Mindy Gibbins-Klein and I talk about finding your business idea in unexpected directions, the importance of peer support (for your staff, fo...

Simon Appleby is Founder and Director of Bookswarm, the digital agency for the publishing industry. In this week's episode, we talk about be...

Bridget Shine is the Chief Executive of the Independent Publishers' Guild, a UK-based organisation that helps independent publishers to have...

Suzy Astbury owns and runs Inspired Selection , a recruitment agency dedicated to the publishing industry. In this podcast, we talk about he...

Ken Jones is Director of Circular Software , creating software like CircularFLO (to easily create advanced fixed-layout EPUBs) and GreenLigh...

In this week's episode, Alison Jones and I talk about how important it is to work on your business as well as in it - that is, to plan caref...

This was the hardest episode of this podcast so far to record (so apologies in advance for the slightly scrappy quality of some of the audio...

Suzanne Collier ( @suzannecollier ) of BookCareers entered publishing at 16 from school and has since then chaired the Society for Young Pub...