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Publisher-owned online reader communities set to double by 2015

The number of publisher-owned online communities is set to more than double over the next two years, according to new research released today by Publishing Technology at The London Book Fair.
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Fans placed at centre of Hodder’s UK cover reveal for new Stephen King

Social media campaign devised with digital marketing agency Think Jam.
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Books & Consumers 2013 conference: Media Coverage round-up

The conference was broadly covered in the book trade press, and picked up more than 400 tweets on the #Bowker13 hashtag. Here are a selection of the main reports.
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Latest BMS campaign winners include a disaster-prone celebrity, a wimpy kid and Venetian foodies

The winners of the Best Marketing Campaign Awards for September-December 2012 were announced at the February BMS meeting.
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Independent Booksellers Week Book Award 2013: Call for Submissions

The Booksellers Association is now calling for adult and children's submissions for the IBW Book Award, as part of Independent Booksellers week, to be voted on by independent bookshops.
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Pan Macmillan restructures sales, marketing and publicity

Pan Macmillan has announced the creation of a single marketing and communications department with a renewed focus on holistic promotional planning and campaigns, digital marketing and direct reader engagement.
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Random House joins together imprints for group Christmas campaign

Random House UK is running a digital consumer campaign with 'handpicked favourites', in a group project co-ordinated with Marketing and Digital teams across multiple imprints.
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Foyles launch ‘Patented, FoolProof Gift Acquisition System’ campaign

Foyles announces designs for its Christmas 2012 marketing campaign with tongue-in-cheek gift flowcharts.
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Decline of a Captive Audience

Technology has changed advertising to the point at which it doesn’t really exist any more. Do publishers need to integrate their book campaigns more effectively into their reader's lives?
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Why would you want to work with Independent bookshops?

Indepedents stores are small businesses, run – mainly – for love of the products they sell. Clever publishers looking for a deft, creative and energetic partner could do much worse than cultivate their relationship with an indie.
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