Adam Wills, Sales Manager – Digital Content, Wiley
For Wiley, providing digital content to readers is nothing new. It goes back at least 14 years, with the launch of Wiley Interscience, the precursor to the Wiley Online Library, now the second most...
View ArticleBridget Shine, Executive Director – Independent Publishers Guild (IPG)
The IPG turned 50 last year, with membership at an all-time high and the service offered as popular as ever – if not more so, as publishing squares up to dramatic changes in the industry. It’s perhaps...
View ArticleJonathan Lewis, Managing Director – Gomer Press
Fittingly, Gomer’s new bi-lingual eCommerce website, built by Firsty, was launched on World Book Day – 7 March. Managing Director Jonathan Lewis expressed delight with the site’s “brand new modern...
View ArticleWill Atkinson, Sales and Marketing Director – Faber and Faber
In a time of great changes in the book industry, being a medium-sized publisher with flexibility, resources and a well-known brand – and the ability to exploit this happy combination effectively – puts...
View ArticleRebecca Smart, CEO – Osprey Publishing
“There’s something a bit magical about seeing big, sometimes mad, ideas become reality,” says Rebecca Smart, Osprey’s CEO since 2009. The company’s acquisition of history and heritage publisher Shire...
View ArticleRichard Cauldwell, teacher-trainer and founder of Speech in Action
“Human kind cannot bear very much reality,” wrote T.S. Eliot, and neither, it seems, can the English language teaching (ELT) establishment, which still clings to prescriptive models of teaching an...
View ArticleGareth Cuddy, CEO – ePubDirect
“Building a strong management team is crucial for any business looking to scale quickly,” says Gareth Cuddy, CEO of ePubDirect. “I was able to pull together a really experienced team, each person...
View ArticleDavid Henderson, Managing Director – Top That
At a time when publishers are trying to strike the right balance between print and digital, the versatility, agility and innovation of Top That Publishing has lessons for everyone. A packager,...
View ArticleAlex Connell, Global Director of Digital Operations ELT, Macmillan Education
Education specialists have been among the most dynamic of all in the digital space lately. And with 150 years of print heritage behind it and some thoroughly modern technological solutions now at its...
View ArticleAnneberth Lux, Publishing Manager, Zed Books
A radical change for a radical publisher. That is what the switch to selling e-books direct to consumers has been for Zed Books—but it is a move that puts it in good shape to take advantage of new...
View Article
