Publishing

Is India the new place to be? With GDP rising year on year (6.5% in the past twelve months – compare that with the UKs feeble  (as in zero) growth over the same period. India is rapidly emerging as the

A quick update for all our happy readers from the International Teacher Development Institute, the new teacher training service that provides a range of extremely cost-effective, online –only professional development programmes. I received ITDI’s first-ever newsletter on Friday – definitely

  Last time we had a look at iBooks Author, Apple’s very own self publishing tool.  As I mentioned, the main problem – if problem it is – concerns the fact that any ebook written using the iAuthor platform will

We all have a book in us, so they say. Some, like Harper Lee, only one. Others, like Dickens, are a tad more prolific. Whatever your ambitions, once you start writing, you only have two options – keep it to

I was sorry to see today that Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing – one of the oldest names in US publishing – has filed for bankruptcy along with twenty affiliated companies, including Broderbund and Classroom Connect. Houghton-Mifflin’s poor financial performance has

Increasingly authors are realising that they can cut out the middlemen and produce their books themselves at minimal cost, and with (potentially) much better returns than the average ELT publisher can offer. Two of the best known self-authoring tools are Lulu and

Just bought a £2000 interactive whiteboard? Or spent £500 on the next generation iPad? Dude, like, what a waste of your hard-earned cash. Whiteboards, as we all know, are so last century. What you should be doing is popping down

Very interesting news from Pearson this week. Pre-tax profits were up 72%, to $1.8 bn, chiefly due to the increase in digital revenues, which increased by 18% in headline terms to £2bn. This means that sales of digital products now