Women in Publishing - February 2015

Women in Digital Publishing

Women in Publishing met in an upstairs room at the Betsy Trotwood in Clerkenwell near Farringdon Station on the 18th February 2015 to hear three successful women talk about digital publishing. Louise Bainbridge introduced the speakers.

Laura Summers who founded Bookmachine said that she first attended Women in Publishing in 2008. She said that she had been very nervous and just wanted to sit at the back but as the group then sat in a circle and everyone was introduced to each other that this was not possible! Perhaps this enforced networking and participation paid off as Bookmachine has become the most successful Book & publishing networking event in the UK. Laura explained that when she and a couple of other women left working at a publishing house they decided to keep in touch online and Bookmachine founded by Laura and Gavin Summers was the end result.