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We are pleased to announce we've been accepted as a Partner Member of the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi). ALLi partners include all kinds of companies, individuals and organizations, ranging from global companies like Amazon KDP, Google Play, IngramSpark and...

As you may know, I began running with the Couch to 5K programme in November 2019 - perfect timing for it to keep me sane during the pandemic! I’m still really enjoying it, and after raising £1,600 for Cancer Research last year in the Cambridge Half Marathon (if you...

Byte the Book’s Justine Solomons chaired this discussion, where we were joined by Mindset and Social Media Mentor and Coach Kelly Weekes and No1 Bestselling Author Nicola May, as well as our own Simon Appleby. Things we talked about: Why you should get out there...

Bookswarm’s Simon Appleby will be in conversation with Justine Solomons with contributions from partners Cameron Publicity and Marketing, Think Big Books Marketing, Arkesis and Prepare to Publish. We’ll be discussing how clients can best engage with potential...

We're taking part in an online event for authors next week. Join Byte The Book and a our panel of experts, including Bookswarm's Simon Appleby, as we give advice on what authors should do across various digital platforms to best represent themselves. We’ll examine:...

Welcome to the third in an occasional series of posts where we turn the floor over to our partners and pals in publishing to talk about what they do, to help our customers learn more about them. This week, it’s the turn of Founder and Director of Byte The Book,...

Welcome to the second in an occasional series of posts where we turn the floor over to our partners and pals in publishing to talk about what they do, to help our customers learn more about them. This week, it’s the turn of Marketing Mentor and Mindset Coach for...

We still regularly get feedback on sites we design and build that's motivated by client concerns that certain elements of content or functionality need to be higher up the page. This is because they don't always have faith that users will scroll down to review the...

On Thursday 29th September 2021 something happened to the security infrastructure of the Internet which has had far-reaching implications despite not being well publicised or well understood. Like many organisations, Bookswarm uses Let's Encrypt to generate digital...

Yesterday at the 2021 Independent Publishing Awards from the IPG, Bookswarm was the proud winner of the GBS Services to Independent Publishers Award. We were so pleased and proud to be chosen for this against some very stiff competition. Congratulations to the IPG for...

Since getting the running bug a little while before lockdown, when he started the Couch to 5K programme, Simon is now running the 2021 Cambridge Half-Marathon to raise money for Cancer Research UK. This won't be his first half-marathon but he's aiming to make it his...

We are delighted to announce that Bookswarm is one of six nominees for the GBS Services to Independent Publishers Award at the 2021 edition of the 2021 Independent Publishing Awards, organised by the IPG. The winners of all the Awards will be revealed at a very...

July 1 saw the new EU Import One Stop Shop (IOSS) scheme for businesses outside the EU selling to consumers inside the bloc come in to effect. This has caught plenty of people on the hop, and we've had numerous conversations with our customers about it. Because of...

The Online London Book Fair event that Simon took part in is now available to watch on demand - including both the main discussion and the Q&A at the end. Click the button below to watch it - you will need to register for the Online London Book Fair, which is...

I will be taking part in a virtual seminar next week as part of the 2021 Virtual London Book Fair. The panel is called Quick, Quick, Slow: What have been the technological changes in publishing this year? and we discuss how the pandemic, Brexit and other technological...

Welcome to the first in an occasional series of posts where we turn the floor over to our partners and pals in publishing to talk about what they do, to help our customers learn more about them. This week, it's the turn of Futureproofs founder John Pettigrew. Tell us...

We were recently featured on Byte Connects, a Byte The Book series that highlights collaborations between their members. In this case, the collaboration was us creating a website for Lucy Ridout, an editor of fiction and travel titles. You can read the article on Byte...

Bookswarm is pleased and proud to be sponsoring the 2021 edition of Byte The Book’s Confluence event on the business of storytelling. Like many events this year, it will be running virtually, and we will be on hand to meet exhibitors.