Photos by Amelia Kyazze, Words by Maleeha Mir At London Book Fair 2024, Byte The Book packed out the Tech Theatre for a panel on the latest developments in book marketing. Chaired by Byte the Book fou…
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Revise and revise. You should only contact publishers when your manuscript has been buffed up. This is likely to mean going over it lots of times, rewriting again and again to get the language just ri…
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Photos by Amelia Kyazze, Words by Maleeha Mir You can listen to an audio recording of this event via this link. Byte the Book’s first live event of 2024 dove into the dynamic and ever-evolving landsca…
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Photos by Amelia Kyazze, Words by Maleeha Mir You can listen to an audio recording of this event via this link. Byte the Book’s November panel focused on the interesting and hotly debated topic of AI…
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Photos by Amelia Kyazze, Words by Maleeha Mir You can listen to an audio recording of this event via this link. Byte The Book’s September event explored the alternative publishing options available to…
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Photos by Amelia Kyazze, Words by Chris Russell Byte The Book’s May panel saw chair Abiola Bello (author and publisher at Hashtag Press) leading a discussion on the economics of publishing with Phoebe…
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I started LONDNR Magazine in 2015 for the simplest reason in the world: I wanted to be a writer, and no one would publish me. I’d sent endless submissions: to zines, travel websites, short story compe…
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Byte The Book loves bringing people from all areas of the publishing world together so that they can learn from each other and collaborate, and we want to highlight some wonderful collaborations that…
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Byte The Book is pleased to announce that for the second year running Hachette UK will sponsor two bursaries for unpublished writers worth over £600 each, to include an annual membership to Byte The B…
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Photos by Amelia Kyazze, Words by Chris Russell As part of the London Book Fair’s busy programme of author events, Byte The Book packed out the English PEN Literary Salon for a panel on digital promot…
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Byte The Book loves bringing people from all areas of the publishing world together so that they can learn from each other and collaborate, and we want to highlight some wonderful collaborations that…
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Photos by Alex Shaw and Amelia Kyazze, words by Chris Russell, cartoon by Ollie Randall Byte The Book live events made a triumphant return on 21st February with a spirited discussion on how to be a…
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Congratulations to Byte the Book member Zoe Cunningham who has just produced her first science fiction feature film, Breaking Infinity. Breaking Infinity follows research scientist Liam who, unstuck i…
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1. Why do we need ISBNs? Most of our telephone conversations at the UK & Ireland ISBN Agency start with “I’ve written this book… now what do I do?” My first question to them is “Do you have an…
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Byte The Book loves bringing people from all areas of the publishing world together so that they can learn from each other and collaborate, and we want to highlight some wonderful collaborations that…
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When I pick up a new book, the first page I read is the acknowledgements at the back. What is the reason for this strange, back-to-front reading habit? It all stems from my search for a literary agent…
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Huub van de Pol, right, is founder of Audiyence. FutureBook award winners were announced on 18 November, and three Byte The Book members were recognized. Audiyence and Prismatext were shortlisted in t…
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Blockchain technology is essentially an update on how the web can function. A simple way to think of blockchain is as a digital ledger that many people can have access to, yet no single entity owns. W…
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On 31 October, Byte The Book and Stationers’ Company members gathered at Stationers’ Hall in London to hear from a panel of experts on the future of bookselling. Bookselling in 2022: New Routes to Mar…
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Photo: The Bookseller Simon Appleby, Byte The Book member and founder of Bookswarm, recently ran the London Marathon, raising funds for Macmillan Cancer Support. This was Simon’s first marathon, which…
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