According to the Association of American Publishers’ annual report, covering all kinds of trade and educational books, the total US books market was worth $26 billion in revenue in 2018. What’s surprising about this figure is the low percentage of ... read more
In order to support and lend transparency into our organization’s continued growth and new initiatives, such as Sprint Lab, Book Sprints has added support for communications via my new venture, O’Connell Consulting. We are excited about working together to quickly ... read more
It’s no secret that our rapid authoring and editing process has relied on the open source, browser based books production system Editoria since 2018. Editoria has been developed by Coko, but is very much a community owned system in the ... read more
After over ten years and one hundred and fifty successful Sprints, we are pleased to announce the successful launch of SprintLab earlier in 2019. With more than five Sprint Lab events completed, we are happy to share this outgrowth as ... read more
Our CEO and facilitator Barbara Rühling participated in a panel discussion focusing on What Publishers and Start Ups Can Do To Help Scientists, which took place at Frankfurt Book Fair earlier this month. Barbara presented alongside executives from ETH Library ... read more
At Book Sprints we acquired our first piece of art for our office in Berlin, and we could not identify any more than we do with the chosen piece. By South Africa/New Zealand artist Nicky Broekhuysen (www.nickybroekhuysen.com), “Unbound” is a ... read more
This year, for the first time, the Digital Publishing Award was presented at the Leipzig Book Fair. The award honors outstanding innovation projects in the field of digital publishing: products, processes or business models with which publishers, but also publisher-like ... read more
We recently had the opportunity to have a team meeting for a few days in Southeastern France. For some of us this was the first time we actually met in person, after having worked together for several years. We stayed in ... read more
Last week we heard the sad news that free culture activist Bassel Safadi, imprisoned in 2013 in Syria and taken from prison in 2015, had been executed. ‘They Can't Stop Us’ — World Mourns Execution of Palestinian-Syrian Activist Bassel Khartabil Safadi ... read more
Some of us are using the summer break to get something done, like writing a book, for example. This summer we’ll have an interesting range of Book Sprints coming up in Europe. Book Sprints in July and August We’ll be ... read more
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