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Your five-minute manifesto for FutureBook
One of the best talks delivered at a FutureBook conference came right at its beginning in 2010. The author Nick Harkaway spoke about the possibilities...Image:
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A manifesto for author-publisher relations
Our first #FutureBook15 response comes from the author Diana Kimpton and it's a deft example of Jones' interest in "a series of ideas, proposals and/or...Image:
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A manifesto for editors
Today's manifesto comes from publishing veteran John Pettigrew, the founding c.e.o. of We Are Futureproofs . In sounding a rallying cry to "keep editors central...Image:
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A manifesto for reaching readers
Today's manifesto writer, Candide Kirk, shares with us some of the perspective of her experience in leading the Amman-based studio Quirkat . D2C, she writes,...Image:
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A manifesto for an independent publisher
"More than 70 percent of Accent Press’ revenue comes from ebooks," writes Bethan James in her manifesto for us today on independent publishing. If such...Image:
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A manifesto for the future of the book
How easy it is to keep replicating the same old same old. Want to stop replicating print in digital? "Lock your marketing department away for...Image:
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A manifesto for 'smart content' in publishing
"Smart content," writes Ixxus' Steve Odart, "knows what it is, where and how it has been used, and where and how else it could be...Image:
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Those magnificent manifestos
Rethinking e-books, bridging the gap between trade and non-trade publishing, using digital to improve the publishing process, and putting authors in control, are the main...Image:
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A manifesto on design in publishing
"Design thinking" is a way to work — on anything. So we told anyone who would listen when I was executive producer to Copenhagen's INDEX:...Image:
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A manifesto on working with authors
"I’ve chosen to dip my toe in self-publishing because of increasing dissatisfaction with payments, contracts and working practices in traditional publishing," writes author Ian Graham...Image:
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A manifesto for the digital writer
"It’s about being the outsider at the window," writes Dan Holloway in his manifesto, "not looking in longingly but sticking up a middle finger tattooed...Image:
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A manifesto for self-publishing authors
"I do not ask anyone for permission to publish." The founding director of the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), Orna Ross joined us here at...Image:
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A manifesto for ebooks
"We’re witnessing the birth of a new art form," writes Catherine Dunn of Help For Writers . And in this refreshingly upbeat assessment of ebooks'...Image:
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A manifesto for trade publishing
"Trade publishing seems mostly to have forgotten it even has a neighbour," says Alastair Horne in his #FutureBook15 manifesto. "Unlike the music and trade publishing...Image:
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A manifesto for publishers: Rip up your schedules
"How publishing likes to do things is no longer the point; how to reach the reader is." Trying to get at what's urgent becomes critical...Image:
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A manifesto for ebooks on art
"Just as portable paint tubes revolutionized the act of making art for painters like Monet and Renoir, the digital revolution is transforming the art book,"...Image:
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A manifesto: Ten commandments for authors
"For many years, I've had the classic problem of being able to wallpaper my apartment with all the rejection letters I've received." Thus, Teymour Shahabi...Image:
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A manifesto to reinvent the book marketplace
If you haven't yet thought of "the power of mobile devices in billions of pockets," now might be a good moment. Ron Martinez , founder...Image:
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A manifesto for a digital book platform
"The future of the book business will certainly be unveiled on a digital platform." Even as some believe that ebooks' progress has been staggered by...Image:
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A manifesto for authors' marketplace success
"The gold rush is over," writes Auckland-based author Gary McLaren , seeing it as a natural market phenomenon that, "the supply of new books was...Image:
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