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Brand development and website for small press Patrician
Bookswarm has created a brand identity and WordPress-powered website for newly launched independent publisher Patrician Press. The philosophy and aim of the Patrician Press is to encourage and promote high-quality fiction and poetry written by new authors whose...
New site launch: Publishing Connections
Publishing Connections Ltd was founded in 2012 by Alistair Burtenshaw, previously Director of the London Book Fair for 10 years until September 2012, to support the global publishing sector at a time of great change in the way in which books and written content are...
Once more unto the classroom…
Simon's been back at the Publishing Training Centre for a second outing of Developing Digital Products the User-Centred Way with co-tutor Zelda Rhiando. If you would like to learn about the digital product lifecycle and how to apply user-centred design techniques to...
Nudge, a new place for booklovers
Bookswarm is proud to announce the beta release of Nudge. Welcome to a place where booklovers can once again browse and discover the world of books. Where communities of discerning readers like you can reach beyond the bestseller lists to seek out hidden gems, uncover...
Bookswarm takes over for Lesley Lokko
Bookswarm has taken over the running of bestselling author Lesley Lokko's website, and enhanced it with the addition of a blog as part of a new social marketing strategy for the author. As the existing website was based on WordPress, it was quick and easy to create a...
PTC course update
Bookswarm's Simon Appleby has been at the Publishing Training Centre this week, delivering the course 'Developing Digital Products the User-Centred Way' with co-tutor Zelda Rhiando. It was the debut of the new course - and Simon reports it went well. Delegates learned...
Gallic Books embrace eBook cross-selling
Bookswarm has created an eBook cross-selling site for independent publishers Gallic Books, the second publisher for whom we have delivered this simple but effective technology after its initial development for Octopus Publishing Group. Here's how it works: We set up a...
A new sponsor and a new look for the National Book Awards
High street retailer Specsavers will replace Galaxy as the new headline sponsor of the National Book Awards - and Bookswarm has overhauled the awards website to reflect the new deal. The National Book Awards website is one of a number of book awards websites that we...
A taste of South Asia
Bookswarm has built a new website for the 2012 South Asian Literature Festival. With loads of events, speakers and venues packed in to this glorious celebration of all things South Asian, we had to find a way to input all the data efficiently without duplication, and...
A first ever website for family saga author Pam Evans
Bestselling family saga author Pamela Evans engaged Bookswarm to build her first ever website, after a writing career that's spanned over thirty years and seen her publish nearly thirty books. The brief was to create a design that reflected the setting for Pam's...
It’s crime and thriller time – new awards website launched
Bookswarm has built the website for the Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards 2012 for event organisers Agile Marketing. Now entering their fifth successful year in partnership with ITV3 and Specsavers, the Crime Thriller Awards (in association with the Crime Writers’...
Educating India
Bookswarm is very proud to have sponsored a young lady of our acquaintance , Eden Shelton, who has been selected by the Cred Foundation to travel to India for 2 weeks to teach English, reading and writing in a school! She is going in October 2013 and will be going to...
Upskill, upskill and play the game
Simon's been blogging for Futurebook again - this time the focus is on digital skills in publishing. He says it's not just the skills themselves that are important, but communicating and demonstrating digital more effectively to staff, authors and agents to increase...
Bookswarm and Aimer Media create golf app for Octopus
As part of our consultancy engagement with Octopus Publishing Group, and working with ace app developers Aimer Media, we are proud to present a new app for iPhone and iPad, Decisions on the Rules of Golf. The Decisions on the Rules of Golf is the official...
Learn to deliver digital products with Bookswarm
Bookswarm founder Simon Appleby will delivering a new course designed to equip publishers with the skills and know-how they require in order to deliver succesful digital projects - in a user-centred way. Working with co-tutor Zelda Rhiando, he will be delivering the...
Bookswarm develops new website for the Book Marketing Society
The Book Marketing Society was launched in November 2004 with the objective of becoming the representative body of marketing within the book industry. As such, it champions marketing professionalism with the ultimate goal of expanding the UK book market. Anyone who...
The Thought Fox honoured in the Webby Awards
A long time ago, in a digital agency far, far away, we designed and developed Faber's blog, The Thought Fox (named after a Ted Hughes poem, as if you didn't know). It's always been a piece of work we were proud of, and it's also one of the first WordPress projects we...
Bookswarm builds website for Faber Factory
Faber Factory is a unique digital service by a publisher for publishers that offers: text digitisation: file conversion, management and distribution excellent relationships with a wide range of retailers and aggregators around the world free storage expert and...