You may or may not have seen, but alas, I am leaving Pan Macmillan. In the New Year I will be taking up a position as Digital Publishing Manager at Profile Books and Serpents Tail. I’m at once sad to be leaving Pan and very excited to be joining Profile.
Over the past couple of years [...]
TTFN
Posted on 23 December, 2009
Posted in General
Tablet
Posted on 9 December, 2009
Posted in General, Reading devices
From Youtube: “This collaboration between The Wonderfactory and Time, Inc. is an excellent example of how tablets will enable the creation of innovative, addictive experiences by publishers, media companies, and advertisers. ”
Don’t even try telling me you don’t want one. And this comes at a time when five major publishers announce a new download platform. [...]
The Third Player
Posted on 10 November, 2009
Posted in General, Reading devices
When we think of the Big Three West Coast tech firms poised to change publishing, we think Amazon, Apple and Google. Between them they embody a shift in discovery, distribution and hardware in reading and typify a move away from the traditional centres of the book world, in favour of more new media-native presences.
Kindle currently [...]
Room on the Broom Interactive ebook
Posted on 26 October, 2009
Posted in Development, General
Macmillan Children’s Books has recently launched a new kind of picture book. From the legendary Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler duo, Room on the Broom is a picture book in the old fashioned sense but also a fully interactive experience.
Bundled with the book is a cd that includes an animated version of the story, games, [...]
Hitchhiker’s Press Release
Posted on 6 October, 2009
Posted in Publishing, mobile
Click on the link below to see our official press release for the Hitchhiker Apps:
hitchhikers-on-the-iphone-press-release
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Posted on 26 August, 2009
Posted in General
Our guide to the galaxy finally arrived at the office having navigating the vagaries of space travel! Bearing a marked resemblance to the Sony Reader, it must be said…
Enter Shikari (or lessons from the record industry #8506)
Posted on 25 August, 2009
Posted in General
Not everyone likes Enter Shikari, an exuberant “post-hardcore” band of metal and synth melding energy from St. Albans, UK. In fact I am universally laughed at by my friends for paying attention; they think I am living some kind of pathetic throw-back teenage fantasy. But I don’t care. No, really, I don’t. Most of the [...]
Oh the irony…
Posted on 20 July, 2009
Posted in Copyright, Publishing, eBooks
After the great debates of last week, wherein I attempted to find a middle ground on DRM, I thought I’d let the topic lie for a bit. For the most part because how ever much I learn no one but no one really has as much information at their finger tips as Cory Doctorow and [...]
Round 2: DRM Is Not Totally 100% Evil But Sometimes Gets Close…
Posted on 15 July, 2009
Posted in Copyright, General, Publishing
Thanks to everyone for the comments and apologies for igniting the whole debate again. I thought I would collect all my responses together and put them out as a post.
- My position: personally I think DRM is a pain and try and avoid it as much as possible. Professionally I recognise that as a publisher [...]
DRM Is Not Evil
Posted on 14 July, 2009
Posted in Copyright, General, Publishing
At Pan Macmillan we are no great fans of DRM. For a while now we have been selling a limited range of titles DRM free from our website; these are titles where the authors have requested that we retail sans DRM. Many writers are in favour of this, and so we see as it [...]
