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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.

Many years ago, early on in my career, I was responsible for the Local Area Network of a small office with about 15 members of staff. As I had no formal background in network admin, I bought a book on network troubleshooting, and there was one chapter that really...

Most of the websites you can see in our portfolio were designed and built from scratch by Bookswarm - but not all. Sometimes we are asked to come in and update, fix or otherwise rescue a website created by someone else. This can be for a variety of reasons, including:...

Jeremy Mason and Mark Stay were kind enough to invite me to take part in Episode 12 of their Book Marketing Challenge video series. I had a great time talking to them about author websites and digital marketing. I just watched it back and I think it's a really good...

Author of this parish Mark Stay commissioned us to make a website for his new Witches of Woodville series recently - and then made this video to explain it. We think it's too good not to share! Check out Woodville Parish Council

We hope you're staying safe and well during this strange and uniquely challenging time. It seems like a different life when I was stressing about whether I should attend meetings in London, practicing social distancing in pitches and getting concerned about the...

We're certainly living in strange and uncertain times - and we hope all of our lovely clients are staying safe (and sane) during this challenging time for the world. As Bookswarm has always been a virtual team, where we're all based in our own home offices, we haven't...

We have made the difificult decision not to attend this year's London International Book Fair in light of the rapidly emerging coronoavirus outbreak. As veterans of many book fairs, we have seen how they can be fertile ground for transmission of ordinary coughs and...

London BooK Fair is almost upon us once again, and Simon will be there, as he has been every year since 2008! If you'd like to take the opportunity to meet and discuss a project, or just find out more about how Bookswarm might be able to help you, please do get in...