Are you wondering how best to price your books for international markets? Our February sponsors, ePubDirect, have produced some fascinating infographics highlighting international eBook statistics wit…
Words by Chris Russell, photos by Daniel Solomons. Byte The Book enjoyed a record attendance for its opening event of 2015, a debate on the controversial topic of Digital Rights Management (DRM). CEO…
We really excited to learn this week, that one of our members, Toby Fountaine, has just launched Blue Mark Books and he’s really keen for Byte the Bookers to come along to their first title’s launch….
Kingston University have been long standing supporters of Byte the Book and so we were delighted to be invited to speak at their Author Conference later this year. Here are some details on the event:…
To be Indie or not is the question. I published my first novel the Indie way. My second novel The Many Lives of Ruby Iyer is being published through Books@Jacaranda on Amazon White Glove. It’s an agen…
Words by Chris Russell, photos by Daniel Solomons. Sparks flew at the final Byte The Book of 2014, as traditional publishing locked horns with self-publishing over the best route for authors. Represen…
Byte the Book member Lisa Edwards has just come back from her first Sharjah Book Fair, here are her thoughts on the conference… I came to Sharjah not quite knowing what to expect, not least because…
While out at the Sharjah Book Fair I was invited to a press conference with the guest of honour, Dan Brown. Given he’s got such a big brand, I asked him if he’d think about self-publishing. “No,” he s…
Words by Chris Russell, photos by Daniel Solomons. Byte The Book’s October event was chaired by Sally Foote of FEB Digital who, in her introduction, instantly set the tone for the evening: “Working wi…
Here’s an excellent offer from Suzanne Collier of bookcareers: She asks, are you networking in November? And goes on…. We couldn’t help but notice that within a week of our next HOW TO JOB SEARCH IN…
Marina Cheal the MD at Cronycle , the sponsors of our October Byte the Book event looking at how publishers and authors working with brands, has put together a collection specifically related to last…
Byte the Book’s founder, Justine Solomons, is speaking at the Inside Out Festival this Wednesday 22nd October, please do come along if you’re in town. Here are some more details: Inside Out Festival 2…
John Pettigrew of FutureProofs urges you all to **Adapt to survive** we reckon he’s got a point. Here’s what he says: We’re living in one of the most exciting times in the history of publishing, we’re…
Do you feel as though you just need to get away with from it all, with your manuscript and a room of your own? Check out this gorgeous house out in Coimbra, Portugal, (nearest airport Porto). It’s on…
Words by Chris Russell, photos by Daniel Solomons. The Ivy was packed to the rafters for September’s Byte The Book, which brought together Andrew Davies (Publisher at Immediate Media), Martin Spear (R…
Simon Potter (Design Services Manager at Printondemand-worldwide), reflects on cover design, having worked for many years with both major publishers and indie authors “You can’t judge a book by its co…
Here’s some more thoughts, this time on self (funded) publishing from our September event sponsor, Print On Demand Worldwide’s, business development manager, David Birkett. It’s fascinating to witness…
What’s it like going from working in a physical bookshop to a virtual one? Here’s a personal note from our September sponsor, David Birkett of Printondemand-worldwide. The Invisible book-sellers of Pe…
Words by Chris Russell, photos by Daniel Solomons. Eric Huang from digital agency Made In Me chaired July’s Byte The Book, which brought together James Woollam of F&W Media, Head of eBooks at Unbo…
Our writer-in-residence Christopher Russell recently published his debut novel Mockstars through Red Button Publishing − a connection that was made at Byte the Book. In this interview, both writer and…
