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Joint ventures and affiliate schemes – some ideas for authors and publishers

Today’s blog is over at BookMachine: https://bookmachine.org/2017/02/22/jvs-affiliates-better-together/.  It’s a fact of life – of my life certainly, and I’m pretty sure yours too – that you can’t do everything on your own. Sometimes you need to bring specific skills and experience into the business by recruiting, sometimes you need to partner with another company, such as […]

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Draw me a picture: Why books are becoming more visual

Today’s blog is over at BookMachine – Draw me a picture: Why books are becoming more visual. ‘We’re wired for pictures. Most of the information our brain processes is visual and we’re good at processing it really fast because we’ve been doing it for millions of years and our survival has historically depended upon it: […]

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Isn’t it ironic?

It’s funny – over the last decade I must have given hundreds of talks on the subject of ‘the future of publishing’ – and yet my most popular blog post ever (several thousand views since it went up on Tuesday, apparently) is on the past of publishing. I seem to have unleashed a frenzy of […]

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