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Bookswarm has developed a brand identity and website for startup poetry publisher Green Bottle Press. Green Bottle Press is a small independent press, dedicated to the idea that poetry books should not only engage the reader with fresh language, form and subject...

This documentary, broadcast at 10:35 on 5th June, commemorates the events on the 6th of June 1944, the largest amphibious military assault in history, when Allied troops invaded the Normandy coast of Nazi-occupied France. It was the beginning of the end of the war in...

Faber will publish as a "people’s edition" of Louise Doughty’s psychological thriller, Apple Tree Yard, following online praise and reader comments for the book since its publication in June last year. The limited edition will feature a winning reader’s quote on the...

Bookswarm has created a campaign microsite for Icon Books' forthcoming Harry's Last Stand, by Harry Leslie Smith. Harry introduces the site, and the book: ‘As one of the last remaining survivors of the Great Depression and the Second World War, I will not go gently...

Bookswarm has worked with poetry publishers for several years, including Faber and Salt Books - but we're pleased to say we've just launched our first commission for an individual poet, Philadelphia-based Rachel Blum. Rachel wanted to showcase a wide selection of her...

Bookswarm has designed a new website for first-time author Clare Furniss, whose young adult novel The Year of the Rat is published in the UK today. "I always thought you'd know, somehow, if something terrible was going to happen. I thought you'd sense it, like when...

Bookswarm's Simon Appleby is expanding his teaching portfolio with a new short course at Kingston University, London. As part of its new range of short courses, delegates can now sign up for a five-day course, Developing an App Publishing Programme. Simon will be...

It's less than a month until the 2014 London Book Fair, the last time it will be held at Earls Court, and we will be walking the halls, taking the pulse of the book trade and meeting with clients, collaborators and friends. Are we the only people who will miss coming...

Earlier this week Bookswarm's Simon Appleby presented to an audience of over 100 Scottish publishers on the subject of Effective Digital Marketing for Independent Publishers at the Publishing Scotland Conference, held in conjunction with the Bookseller's Association....

Today Headline Publishing Group are launching bookbridgr.com – a new website that lets book bloggers request books, exclusive content and author interviews direct from the publisher. Developed for Headline by Bookswarm, bookbridgr will give bloggers first access to...

Here are a few Twittersphere reactions to Simon's recent Bookseller Essay (now available on the Bookseller website). Superb essay by @BookswarmBark on Atomic vs narrative digital pub mindsets/skillsets won @thebookseller Essay comp: pic.twitter.com/3K1UVn3ZS4 — Sara...

Our own Simon Appleby has won the second edition of The Bookseller's regular essay prize with a piece which focuses on two very different types of publishing. This first appeared in The Bookseller on Friday 14th 2013. Divide up the CD collection. Decide who gets the...

Bookswarm Director Simon Appleby will be presenting to publishing delegates at this year's Publishing Scotland / Book Trade Conference, which is taking place on Tuesday 4 March 2014 at the Grand Central Hotel in Glasgow. The focus will be on inspiring publishers with...

We've have great fun over the past weeks and months working on sites for two very different children's authors - but as they've launched quite close together we thought we'd talk about them both together. Faber commissioned us to create a website for Pip Jones' new...

On Wednesday 29th January Bookswarm's Simon Appleby presented to the Faber Factory conference on the subject Digital Marketing: Inspiration vs. Perspiration. The idea was to showcase a wide selection of digital marketing ideas, from the simple to the more involved,...

Bookswarm has created a website for new book Überpreneurs, by Australian authors Peter Andrews and Fiona Wood, published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book charts the lives and achievements of 36 extraordinary individuals, telling their unique stories and demonstrating...

No, it's not the Australian Cricket team (curse their baggy green caps), it's the host of Antipodean writers and artists confirmed to take part in next year's Australia and New Zealand Festival of Arts and Literature, including: Anthony McCarten, Anita Heiss, CK...

'Tis the season to... spend all your time on social media completing quizzes about how many iconic teen movies of the 80s you've seen, or how Northern you are. Now users can match their cultural experiences against selections from four of Octopus Publishing's...