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How a 160-year-old library and a four-year-old startup are building a new sort of book community

By Justine Hyde

Director Library Services and Experience at State Library Victoria

The State Library Victoria, one of the world’s oldest public libraries, has partnered with publishing startup Tablo to launch an online reading and writing community. Read more
Can Custos use Bitcoins to sink ebook piracy?

By Molly Flatt

Associate editor at FutureBook

Move over DRM and watermarking: if this startup has its way, your ebooks could soon be protected by Bitcoin bounty hunters. Read more
With VR, publishers must focus on storydoing, not storytelling

By Catherine Allen

Immersive media specialist at Freelance

Publishers must be wary of directly transposing your stories into VR, and focus on where their talents match the potential of this new medium. Read more
5 things inspiring print pioneer Isheeta Mustafi right now

By Molly Flatt

Associate editor at FutureBook

Isheeta Mustafi, editorial director at RotoVision, shares five things inspiring her to think and work differently right now. Read more
Serialised, freemium, bitesize: has Radish Fiction finally nailed mobile storytelling?

By Molly Flatt

Associate editor at FutureBook

The big-hitting Korean team behind Radish Fiction is starting with mobile fiction - but their sights are set on turning the world's best stories into transmedia gold. Read more
In praise of slow publishing

By Molly Flatt

Associate editor at FutureBook

In a breathless digital economy, speed isn't all it's cracked up to be. Might it be time for a slow publishing movement? Read more
Publishers, meet Alexa: voice search is this year's disruptive force

By Adam Gingery

Co-founder at Backstage Podcast

Amazon's Alexa and Google Home are creating a whole new voice search ecosystem. But are publishers ready to take advantage of it? Read more
Last Seen Online offers "a new genre" for the WhatsApp generation

By Molly Flatt

Associate editor at FutureBook

Messaging platforms are now more popular than social networks - and a new real-time storytelling app is hoping to capitalise on the trend. Read more
The danger of bright shiny things (including Milo Yiannopoulos)

By Guy Gadney

c.e.o. at To Play For

As the Milo Yiannopoulos row rumbles on, Guy Gadney explains why brand values have started to trump shiny new things in the digital space. Read more
Investor Kieran Hill on what makes a great publishing startup

By Molly Flatt

Associate editor at FutureBook

Kieran Hill, c.o.o of venture capital firm Ascension Ventures shares, what's currently exciting him in the publishing scene, what's rubbish, and what it takes to make him bite. Read more
Meet Wet Zebra, The X-Factor for independent authors

By Molly Flatt

Associate editor at FutureBook

If Wet Zebra authors get 1,000 votes from the reading public, their book gets published. Read more
How to win at publishing now: 10 tips from the FutureBook Awards

By Bec Evans

Co-founder at Write-Track

What skills and behaviours do you need to become a leading light in the publishing industry? Bec Evans interviews this year's FutureBook Award winners to find out. Read more
Watch out publishers: the chatbots are coming

By Molly Flatt

Associate editor at FutureBook

Move over, VR; chatbots are set to be the big publishing trend this year. Read more
Startup of the week: Bookollective

By Molly Flatt

Associate editor at FutureBook

Whether you need editing, design or PR support, this new one-stop agency for authors and publishers aims to buck the trend for 'impersonal' service providers. Read more
Young hearts run free

By Molly Flatt

Associate editor at FutureBook

In a new monthly editor's letter, Molly Flatt suggests that we stop millennial bashing and celebrate the young talent already redefining the publishing industry. Read more