Hosted by Arthur Attwell · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 29 episodes
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A podcast about the art and science of making books. Arthur Attwell speaks to book-making leaders about design, production, marketing, distribution, and technology. These are conversations for book lovers and publishing decision makers, whether you’re crafting books at a big company or a boutique publisher.
Arthur Attwell hosts How Books Are Made, a arts show with 29 episodes published.
If you’re writing and self-publishing a book, where should you start? And who do you need on your team? This episode, we’re changing up our usual format with a short, practical answer to a common publishing question. In
The allure of crowdfunding is that you can sell your book before it costs you any money. But that’s harder than it looks! To find out what it takes to run a crowdfunding campaign properly, Arthur speaks to Aaron A. Reed,
Children's publisher Book Dash makes beautiful books in a single day, then gives them away. And their method is catching on around the world. Book Dash believes every child should own a hundred books by the age of five.
At the heart of everything book-like is a printer, standing at a hand-powered press, turning paper into pages. When you hold a book that’s been typeset in metal, printed by hand on fine paper, bound and sewn with board a
Everything we read is coloured by its typeface. And humans read a lot, so font choices probably affect more people than any other field of design. In our daily lives, we rarely appreciate how much work goes into good typ
There is no place more universally loved than a good bookstore. For its owner, achieving that is not as simple as it seems. The best book shops are much more than books on shelves and a coffee bar. Behind the tranquillit
Behind every great author is a host of unsung editors. By convention, they don’t get their names on books. What are they doing behind the scenes? A good book needs hundreds of decisions made and pieces organised. For thi
Creative communities can be a powerful force for good. Online, they grow around tools that let people be creative together. What comes first, the tools or the community? Two acclaimed book-making platforms with vibrant c
We take for granted that books contain no mistakes, but the absence of mistakes is no small achievement. It takes care, commitment, and very, very good processes. In publishing, even a small mistake can spell disaster. L
Would you believe that the entire ebook marketplace – including Kindle, iBooks, and thousands of ebook stores – depends on the volunteer work of about a dozen people? There are millions of ebooks for sale online, and tho
Why are book clubs so transformative, and can they change the world? When we read a book we love, no matter how outlandish or challenging it is, we recognise in it the way we believe the world works. And that is profound
Good agents are the fairy grandparents of page and screen. They get writers; and they get writers paid. Most jobs in publishing are done by humans flying solo – writers and freelancers working from home, running their ow
Open-access publishing models are so ubiquitous today that we forget they had to be invented first – by bold, generous publishers. In this episode, Arthur talks to one of those inventors: Frances Pinter has been pioneeri
There are so many interesting people in book-making; people who cross boundaries and live for the thrill of making art with other people. People like Andrés Barragán: rock guitarist, engineer, writer, agent, and founder
The biggest decision in publishing is ‘who gets published?’ Whose ideas, world views, and idioms get added to the great library? Anasuya Sengupta is the Co-founder and Co-Director of Whose Knowledge?, a global campaign t
When we create machines to handle the drudgery of book-making, we free up our brains for more creative work. Fiction publisher Canelo has just been shortlisted for Independent Publisher of the Year at the British Book Aw
Few people have helped to publish as many children’s books, in as many different ways, as Alisha Niehaus Berger. Her career has spanned New York publishing, the Girl Scouts of America, and publishing programmes in over a
The pandemic has accelerated digitization in publishing to warp speed, and every book-maker in the world is wondering what that means for their business. Some innovative publishers were going digital long ago, of course.
When we really need to get a book written and published quickly, and can rally a dedicated team around it, how fast can we move? Book Sprints are the leaders in rapid book production. Their CEO and Lead Facilitator, Barb
We all love libraries, but maybe we could love them a little more. Some money-minded publishing folk even wonder: what effect do libraries have on book sales? Luckily, Guy LeCharles Gonzalez can help answer that question
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