Get the scale of web publishing, the convenience of ebooks, and the gravitas of print, all from one friendly team. Tweets by @arthurattwell.
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8 Nov 2024
Ever wondered what goes into a successful crowdfunding campaign? In our latest episode, @arthurattwell speaks with @aaronareed, who’s crowdfunded several books and games, including *50 Years of Text Games* and *Downcrawl 2E*.
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25 Oct 2024
New episode! Children’s publisher @bookdash makes beautiful books in a single day, then gives them away. And their method is catching on around the world. howbooksaremade.com/episodes…
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11 Oct 2024
New episode! Arthur speaks with Graham Moss, master printer, history teacher, and founder of Incline Press, which works with poets and artists to make limited-edition books with hand-set, metal type on vintage machines.
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27 Sep 2024
New episode! Today we’re talking fonts with type designer @ThomasJockin. We find out how typefaces can make it easier for people to understand what they read, and what variable fonts mean for type design, for reading, and for society.
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13 Sep 2024
New episode, with Griffin Shea, about running one of Joburg’s most beloved bookshops, Bridge Books. We cover sourcing books, setting prices, connecting booksellers, the highs and lows of the inner city, and judging SA’s most prestigious non-fiction award.
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Electric Book Works retweeted
30 Aug 2024
New episode! Behind every great author is a host of unsung editors – often ghostwriters, too. By convention, they don’t get their names on books. What are they doing behind the scenes?
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Electric Book Works retweeted
16 Aug 2024
New episode! ‘Building tools for creative communities’—Librivox and Pressbooks are book-making platforms with vibrant communities, created by @hughmcguire. What does it take to build a tool that creative people gather round?
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Electric Book Works retweeted
2 Aug 2024
In today’s new episode, Arthur speaks to Emma Barnes about managing metadata and technical literacy, and we catch up about Snow Books and children’s publishing service Make Our Book.
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Electric Book Works retweeted
19 Jul 2024
New episode! We talk to book-tech leader Dave Cramer about creating standards, making ebooks, using CSS for print layout, and the dilemmas of digital-first vs InDesign-based publishing. howbooksaremade.com/episodes…
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Electric Book Works retweeted
5 Jul 2024
New episode! Why are book clubs so transformative?
My guest @BleedingInkAndy works with book clubs and writers who are in or have been in prison, and has seen the positive effect of reading circles on people who are rebuilding their lives.
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Electric Book Works retweeted
21 Jun 2024
In today's new episode, Arthur talks to literary agent Aoife Lennon-Ritchie about what agents do; do's and don'ts for getting an agent; evaluating contracts; and crossovers between writing for page and screen. howbooksaremade.com/episodes…
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Electric Book Works retweeted
17 Jul 2023
"Commercial publishing is funded by customers who have money and believe what you believe, so effecting change is a happy side-effect. Strategic publishing is very different."
I honestly can't tell: is this blindingly obvious or a provocative opinion?
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14 Jul 2023
Accessible publishing is hard, important, tricky, rewarding work. Despite years working on accessibility, we're still learning so much. Here are some key takeaways from the journey so far.
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10 Jul 2023
When helping people publish on tight budgets, the question we grapple with is, 'What's truly indispensable?'
What are your must-have publishing fundamentals? Here's my list. Have I missed something, or over-emphasised something you think is not crucial?
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Electric Book Works retweeted
19 Jun 2023
We LOVED producing the epub edition of Aaron's Reed's fabulous book *50 Years of Text Games*. The most complex print-to-ebook conversion we've done, with a big focus on accessibility. Here's Aaron writing about it on Kickstarter. kickstarter.com/projects/aar…
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30 May 2023
Our interns help us do great work, and we teach them everything we can about modern book production. If you know a book-maker in the making, we'd love to hear from them. (EBW internships are paid, full- or half-time, and based in Cape Town, South Africa.)
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15 May 2023
Coko asked us to create bold, beautiful design templates for their textbook-writing platform, so that authors can see their book laid out in its final form, while they are writing. Here's what we created, and links to our open-source code library.
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28 Apr 2023
An eye-opening project for us! We worked with the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime to turn their Risk Bulletins into searchable, shareable web pages.
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11 Jan 2023
"a small step on the long path to transforming educational resources in India to make them relevant, accessible, and encouraging of a learner’s curiosities and capabilities."
Great overview of *iThink Biology* by one of its authors.
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11 Jan 2023
We managed the design and production of this free online textbook, and it's been one of our favourite projects. If you teach life sciences, check it out.
ithinkbiology.in/
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