Latest Proofreaders Podcast Episodes
53: People and technology: the future of making books
Talking through my hat - October 27, 2020 12:00 - 56 minutesThis year has shown once again how technology is vital to the making of books - and that our needs can change in a heartbeat, but also that people are always at the heart of what we do. Join our panel to discuss questions like: does tech ever change what we're trying to do, or just how we do it...
52: Publishing people: build teams and careers in 2020
Talking through my hat - October 20, 2020 12:00 - 55 minutesThis year has shown once again how important our teams and business relationships are - and that our needs can change in a heartbeat. Join our panel to discuss questions like: is there such a thing as a career these days, and how do you build one if so? what changes are happening in our workp...
51: Publishing innovation: how do we manage change?
Talking through my hat - October 14, 2020 17:13 - 56 minutesThis year has proved, more than ever, that it's impossible to predict the future. But given change is inevitable, how do we manage and prepare for change? Our panel discusses questions like: how do we identify where change is needed in our business? how do we get our teams on board with the i...
50: Why start a publishing business? (Best Bits)
Talking through my hat - April 16, 2019 11:22 - 24 minutesFor episode 50, I've looked back at the past year of interviews and put together a compilation of some of the best bits - or, at least, some memorable ones for me! In this episode, I look back at why people set up a publishing business, whether it's a small publisher, a tech business or somethin...
49: Passion and idealism (Hugh McGuire interview)
Talking through my hat - April 09, 2019 12:28 - 30 minutesHugh McGuire is co-founder and Executive Director of the Rebus Foundation, the founder of Librivox, and the founder of Pressbooks, which helps publishers and authors easily create professionally designed print and ebook editions of their books. Before that, he worked in the world of electric pow...
48: Follow your customer (Miral Sattar interview)
Talking through my hat - April 02, 2019 11:23 - 29 minutesMiral Sattar is CEO and Founder of LearnSelfPublishingFast and of Bibliocrunch, an award-winning marketplace that connects authors with vetted editors, designers, marketers and more. She's worked in the media industries for 11 years, including launching several digital initiatives at Time. She's...
47: Readers, users and scale (Emmanuel Kolade interview)
Talking through my hat - March 26, 2019 12:00 - 31 minutesEmmanuel Kolade is the founder of Shulph, a book-technology company focussed on multi-format reading experiences. He comes from technology industry where he has spent the last 17 years specialising in human-centred design to build digital products. Before founding Shulph, Emmanuel led Pricewater...
46: From German Literature to blockchain (Sebastian Posth interview)
Talking through my hat - March 19, 2019 12:28 - 29 minutesSebastian Posth is a serial entrepreneur and consultant for the publishing industry, with a focus on digital publishing and innovation. His interests always feature the hot topics, currently including data analytics and blockchain technologies. Sebastian has been working for 15 years in a variet...
45: Access to ideas and nature (Helen Bagnall interview)
Talking through my hat - March 12, 2019 12:00 - 30 minutesHelen Bagnall is co-founder of Salon London, co-founder of the Transmission Prize for artists who promote bold, beautiful ideas, and also Director of the Also Festival of ideas. Before all that, she worked as a writer for Sony Pictures Entertainment, looking after characters across a range of pl...
44: Keeping a broad focus (Lorraine Shanley interview)
Talking through my hat - March 05, 2019 12:12 - 29 minutesLorraine Shanley is co-founder and President of Market Partners International, who are consultants for the changing environment of publishing. Before MPI, Lorraine worked at Barnes & Noble, Book of the Month Club and HarperCollins, and now also serves on the Advisory Board of New York University...
43: Following the river (Richard Nash interview)
Talking through my hat - February 26, 2019 11:59 - 34 minutesRichard Nash is a coach, strategist, and serial entrepreneur in new and traditional media. He led partnerships and content at the culture discovery start-up Small Demons and the new media app Byliner, and ran the publisher Soft Skull Press, for which work he was awarded the Association of Americ...
42: Finding new voices (Kevin Duffy interview)
Talking through my hat - February 19, 2019 12:00 - 35 minutesKevin Duffy is co-founder of Bluemoose Books. Having been in publishing for 20 years back in 2006, he and his wife mortgaged their house to start Bluemoose, with the aim of publishing new and exciting voices. Since then, their books have been sold in 82 countries, and had rights sold to British ...
41: Growing open literature (Sean Preston interview)
Talking through my hat - February 12, 2019 12:00 - 33 minutesSean Preston is the founder and editor of short-fiction platform Open Pen, whose self-titled magazine has been described as “More like a shot of absinthe than a boring pint of lager,” and is making its first forays into book production. He's a proud East Londoner, an ex-pro wrestler, a full-time...
40: From personal plaything to book business (Jens Tröger interview)
Talking through my hat - February 05, 2019 12:00 - 32 minutesJens Tröger, the founder of Bookalope is an experienced software engineer and computer science researcher with over two decades of industry experience including Microsoft Xbox, Intel Labs and Oracle Research. He is also a book lover, typophile and book designer for print and e-publishing. Bookal...
39: Learn by building (Ron Martinez interview)
Talking through my hat - January 29, 2019 12:00 - 32 minutesRon Martinez is the Founder and Principal of design and product-innovation firm Invention Arts, and also a prolific inventor with >60 US patents and many more worldwide in the fields of media, mobile and social technologies, and commerce. He's worked in Intellectual Property Innovation for Yahoo...
38: Building a grammar for augmented reality (Michael Kowalski interview)
Talking through my hat - January 22, 2019 11:23 - 27 minutesMichael Kowalski is the founder of Storienteer, which is exploring augmented-reality, as well as the programme director of the Confluence conference this February. Before all that, he worked as a software developer at the Guardian and was Head of Publishing for a digital initiative at News Inter...
37: Just-in-time learning (Ryan Morison interview)
Talking through my hat - January 15, 2019 12:00 - 29 minutesRyan Morison is a serial entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience across two continents developing and commercialising digital publishing solutions, from a digital reading ecosystem, through a multichannel content-management solution to an award-winning direct-sales platform. He's even run ...
36: Curation as marketing (Gary Price interview)
Talking through my hat - January 08, 2019 19:45 - 34 minutesGary Price is a librarian, author and co-founder of infoDocket (on the web and Twitter), now part of the Library Journal. Before that, he co-founded ResourceShelf and Docuticker, which he edited and ran for ten years. In addition, he's worked as a librarian at George Washington University and as...
35: Technology, process and people (Bill Rosenblatt interview)
Talking through my hat - December 18, 2018 12:00 - 33 minutesBill Rosenblatt is a media-industry commentator on intellectual property and technology, President of GiantSteps Media Technology Strategies, and programme chair of the Copyright and Technology Conferences. In addition, he's spoken at the Davos summit, written a book about the business and pract...
34: Climbing a new ladder (Joanna Penn interview)
Talking through my hat - December 11, 2018 11:50 - 32 minutesJoanna Penn is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. She spent more than a decade as an IT consultant, but is now much better known as a writer and independent publisher of thrillers and dark fantasy novels, an award-winning entrepreneur, a publishing commentator, and a podcaster an...
33: Flexibility and community (Georgina Atwell interview)
Talking through my hat - December 04, 2018 11:29 - 33 minutesGeorgina Atwell is the founder of Toppsta, a community for reading, reviewing and discovering great children's books. Before that, she worked at Penguin UK, and also for Apple's iBooks team, which all gives her a unique perspective! In this episode, we talk about the importance of flexibility ...
32: Metadata and markets (Laura Dawson interview)
Talking through my hat - November 27, 2018 12:00 - 30 minutesLaura Dawson is a metadata expert for the media, entertainment and publishing industries, and the Founder/CEO of Numerical Gurus. After years working in and around publishing, she got involved with the International Standard Name Identifier. And, on the side, she ran The Solitary Chef, a book an...
31: Accidental publishers (Asi Sharabi interview)
Talking through my hat - November 20, 2018 12:00 - 33 minutesAsi Sharabi is Co-Founder and CEO of Wonderbly. Before this successful venture into the world of publishing, he spent time as a researcher and lecturer at the LSE, worked at startups, and was MD of Sidekick studios. Now, of course, at Wonderbly, he leads a team creating highly personalised print...
30: In the global marketplace (Jo Bottrill interview)
Talking through my hat - November 13, 2018 12:00 - 27 minutesJo Bottrill worked for Nature, Taylor & Francis and Cambridge University Press before setting up Out of House Publishing over 11 years ago to help academic and educational publishers to develop, edit and produce their content. In this episode, we talk about how Jo grew his business from freela...
29: Making authors and building brands (Dominique Raccah interview)
Talking through my hat - November 06, 2018 16:06 - 37 minutesDominique Raccah is Founder, Publisher and CEO of Sourcebooks, which has over the years grown to produce everything from children's books to college guides. It is the largest woman-owned book publisher in the USA, as well as the largest trade book publisher in Chicago. Dominique has long been re...
28: No-one wants a "quite good" book (John Bond interview)
Talking through my hat - October 30, 2018 11:31 - 28 minutesJohn Bond is the Co-Founder of WhiteFox, a new breed of publishing services company. He set up WhiteFox after being Marketing Director at Virgin Publishing, Penguin and HarperCollins, and then MD at HarperCollins. In our interview, we talk about finding co-founders among your existing relation...
27: Protecting people from tech (Arthur Attwell interview)
Talking through my hat - October 23, 2018 12:00 - 30 minutesArthur Attwell is a self-described serial adventurer in publishing innovation, and has co-founded several publishing businesses, perhaps most famously Paperight, which enabled people in Africa to print out legal copies of books from local photocopy shops. Currently, he runs Electric Bookworks, u...
26: Soppiness and profit (Justine Solomons interview)
Talking through my hat - October 16, 2018 11:22 - 29 minutesJustine Solomons is a networker extraordinaire and Founder of Byte the Book, which helps writers and publishers to learn more about the publishing industry, and to make connections that will help them in their careers. In this episode, we talk about building a business on helping other people ...
25: Working hard at learning (Michael Bhaskar interview)
Talking through my hat - October 09, 2018 12:00 - 29 minutesMichael Bhaskar is the Co-Founder of digital publisher Canelo, author of the books The Content Machine and Curation, and also Writer-in-Residence at Google's DeepMind with the Ethics and Society team. In this episode, we talk about how Canelo tries to do things differently - not just the obvio...
24: Finding the business model (Nina-Sophia Miralles interview)
Talking through my hat - October 02, 2018 12:00 - 28 minutesNina-Sophia Miralles is the Founder of digital culture magazine Londnr. She is a writer and editor with a focus on arts, culture and lifestyle, served as Head of Partnerships and Special Projects for the Society of Young Publishers in 2017, and has received awards from The Hospital Club and the ...
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