Am I the only person who thinks publishers should open bookshops?
Megan Toogood asks: Am I the only person who thinks publishers should open bookshops? I know that at first it seems like a crazy idea, so let me explain what I mean. This idea is a response to the pro…
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Twas Brillig: Add your Voice to a Talking Book as Part of Read for RNIB Day 11/10
We were so excited to hear about this event we just had to tell you all about it. Thousands of people will help to give literary classic Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland a curiouser and curiouser twis…
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Sex with Salon London: Discount for Byte the Bookers for Foyles event on 3/10/13
As part of its autumn series Sex, and Drugs and Rock and Roll, Byte the Book members, Salon tackles Sex. With Aarithi Prasad explaining how science is redefining the rules of sex, Sarah McCartney tes…
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Report: “What Lessons Can Consumer Publishing teach the Book Industry?”
It was standing room only at Loft at The Club at the Ivy for our September event focussed on the newspaper and magazine industry. Byte the Book founder, Justine Solomons chaired a discussion with a p…
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World Wide Wonderfulness from Brand New Venture: The Book Globe
Perfect timing given this week’s announcement of the Man Booker shortlist, one of our rather brilliant members, Nick Sidwell, told us about thebookglobe.com, a project he’s been working on with his co…
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Byte the Book Discount for Publish! New adventures in innovation 24/9/2013, St Brides, London
Media Futures is offering Byte the Bookers a 20% discount on early booking tickets for its Publish! New adventures in innovation a day of discussion and demonstration that showcases cutting edge proto…
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Thinking smart: Collective licensing and secondary revenue streams
Our sponsor for this month’s event is the Publishers Licensing Society. If you want to earn extra revenue from your licenses, they can help. Here’s some more information: As is regularly reported, day…
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Report: “The Author Experience II”
The focus was on authors at Byte The Book’s July event, with a panel of experienced and successful writers from a wide variety of literary backgrounds offering their pearls of wisdom to yet another se…
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Byte the Book July Sponsor’s – Red Button Publishing
Our July Sponsor’s, Red Button Publishing, are eager to see your manuscripts and also offer consultancy services to self published authors. They asked us to pass on the following message to the Byte t…
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Hampstead and Highgate Literary Festival: Some Amazing Writers and A Kids Day Just Added
We were intrigued to hear that as well as having some amazing speakers, Hampstead and Highgate Literary Festival have also added a kids’ day. Here are some more details on the programme from the organ…
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Salon London Summer Essentials 11th July Foyles – Reduced ticket price for Byte the Book subscribers
Salon London have another fabulous event coming up at Foyles on 11th July and they’ve arranged for a reduced tickets prices for Byte the Book subscribers. Doors are at 6:30pm and tickets can be booked…
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Report “What New Busines Models are Emerging for Publishing in the Digital Age?”
Another packed and lively crowd was in attendance for Byte The Book’s June event, which tackled the hot topic of emerging business models in the digital age. Discussion kicked off with an exploration…
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What’s Going On In London – Byte the Book Calendar of Literary and Publishing Events
Are you interested in literary and publishing events in London? Use our calendar to find out what’s going on in the capital. If you use Google calendar you can add this calendar to your own and if yo…
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Publishing Start-Up As You Read – Survey
One of our members, Deana Said, co-founder of publishing start-up As You Read has asked us to poll our members with their new survey. As You Read is an idea, to create a new digital publishing service…
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How to Network
Some people adore networking, others hate it. One of our members, Zoe Cunningham, comes from a technology background and wrote the following article a short time ago. We thought it might be useful for…
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Report on Byte the Book “How is Technology Influencing the Size and Shape of What We Read?”
We understand that some of you can’t get along to Byte the Book but are still curious to know what gets discussed. So we asked one of our members, Chris Russell, to write a report on our May meeting. …
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Thank You from Byte the Book: Please Join Us
Thanks to everyone that came tonight, another truly great Byte the Book. A special mention to our fantastic panelists, Benedict Evans, Ravina Bajwa, Richard Loncraine and Maureen Evans and of course o…
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Accolade for City University Alumna – Deepa Anappara
One of our sponsors, City University London, told us the great news that an alumna of their Novel Studio course has won the coverted Asham Award. Sophie Gost gave us some more details: This summer Vir…
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Literary Loveliness from Salt Books at Blacks on 10th June
We’re just heard about a great series of events at Blacks and wanted to tell you about it. The series is called “Off the Shelf at Blacks” and the next event is on 10th June, here are some more deta…
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Fireworks: Byte the Book’s First Year
Byte the Book has been running for a little over a year now. Our first event was on 14th March 2012. I brought together eight people and we sat in a very quiet Loft at the Ivy Club and discussed ways…
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