BookBindr: Connecting Writers & Publishing Experts

BookBindr, a new platform launched by Simon Appleby and Justine Solomons, connects writers and publishers with vetted industry freelancers. Features include search, filters, and direct contact.

Solomons said: “Since I established Byte guide, we’ve aided hundreds of writer participants on their trip to publication. Creating BookBindr was a rational next action to help them discover the experts they will need along the road.”

Byte Guide & BookBindr Launch

Various other features include search and filter functions, enabling customers to choose options based on skill set and genre experience, and direct contact, so they can reach out straight to consultants through the platform.

The new devoted website platform will certainly feature a “carefully collated” data source, making it possible for customers to look for and call consultants that are presently open for job, covering vital solutions such as editing and enhancing, promotion, design, marketing and more. To be consisted of on the website, consultants should fulfill specified standards, including having a service that does the majority of its benefit authors, authors, firms and various other publishing-related clients.

Platform Features Overview

A brand-new system, which aims to connect publishers and writers with “competent, vetted sector freelancers”, has actually been launched by Simon Appleby, founder of Bookswarm, alongside Justine Solomons, founder of Byte the Book.

Appleby claimed: “Guide posting market has plenty of experienced, seasoned freelancers supplying services to authors and writers. We identified a significant space in the market for a reliable, simple resource that especially aids link authors and publishers with freelancers. As a person that’s been running a publishing services business for years, there are often times I have actually wished I had a database like this– so currently we’ve made one.”

Industry Need & Solution

The platform was gone for an event on 18th November at London’s Century Club, where Philip Jones, editor of The Bookseller, interviewed Appleby and Solomons concerning the ideas behind the job, and a target market of freelance posting specialists and authors were introduced to the website.