Filament do not provide Self-Publishing.  We are publishers, in the traditional sense, and members of the Independent Publisher’s Guild.  We have been publishing for 25 years and provide Commercial Publishing Services to organisations, and a range of different ‘author-centric’ business models for individual authors to meet their specific needs.  Everything we do is bespoke and individually crafted. One size does not fit all.

Chris Day

How to Know Your Book’s Cover Needs a Redesign

by Diana Urban Potential readers need to be intrigued by a bookÔÇÖs cover to click through and check it out. Our testing has shown that a cover alone can account for a 30% difference in clicks on a BookBub Featured Deal, and other sources have reported similar...

5 Predictions for Trade Publishing in 2016

by David Montgomery At the end of every year itÔÇÖs traditional for the CEO of Publishing Technology to dust off the crystal ball and look at whatÔÇÖs going to happen in publishing over the next twelve months. In previous years weÔÇÖve predicted the rise of mobile...

Lena Dunham and why 2015 was the year of the email newsletter

A welcome retreat from the chaos of the web, this year newsletters came into their own and revealed their roots in the epistolary novel ┬áBy Josephine Livingstone – writing in The Guardian Email newsletters boomed in 2015. The ubiquitous Lena Dunham even got in...

How books are booming in the Middle East

By Sylvia Smith BBC News With Islamic State militants taking greater control of strategic towns in Syria and Iraq, the publishing heartland of the Middle East is being thrown into disarray. These traditionally more literature-oriented countries have long suffered from...

What Should Authors Expect to Earn?

By Brooke Warner Publisher of She Writes Press; President of Warner Coaching Inc.; ┬áAuthor of ‘What’s Your Book?’ A funny thing about authors: they’re not a modest bunch. Even the most humble, down-to-earth authors I know have wild...