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Peter Collingridge

Peter Collingridge, co-founder, Enhanced Editions

Peter Collingridge is a publishing entrepreneur whose work at the maverick edge of publishing began at independent publisher Canongate Books in 1997. He spearheaded the firm’s move into digital in 1998 by setting up and running their community website, described by The Guardian as, “like a cool club stocked with well-read friends rather than a lazy corporate exercise”, and pioneering the creation of digital marketing techniques for books.

In 2005, he set up Apt Studio, a strategic design and marketing consultancy that advises publishers on digital technology and strategy, and which has been described as “The future of book marketing” and “behind the best booky stuff on the web“. Apt has produced over 25 digital projects for some of the biggest names in publishing, media, the arts and business.

In 2008 Peter co-founded Enhanced Editions to drive innovation in publishing and to help shape the future of the book.

Peter was named by The Evening Standard as one of London’s 50 most influential people in publishing; he was shortlisted for the British Council’s 2009 Young Publishing Entrepreneur of the Year.

He has an MA in literature from Edinburgh University, and has delivered a number of Keynote presentations at publishing and digital conferences, from opening O’Reilly’s Tools of Change in New York 2010, to the NON-fiction fair in Moscow, to Madrid’s ANELE textbook conference.

Conference Speaker Slots

Below are some videos of the talks that have been given by Peter Collingridge. Peter has recently spoken at:

For more details, see Peter’s Lanyrd schedule

Videos & Slides of Past Talks

2009: Fail Harder – Society Of Young Publishers

This was a pecha kucha style-talk: a rapid, 21 slide presentation that progresses every 21 seconds automatically. Talking to a room of graduates wanting to enter the publishing business, Peter decided to talk about failure and how the many failures in his career to date had been much more helpful than they first appeared. The background to the talk is available here and here

Fail Harder – Slides – Pecha Kucha to SYP

2010: O’Reilly Tools of Change Conference, Opening Keynote: Enhancing the eBook

Peter was invited by O’Reilly to deliver the opening keynote of the 2010 Tools of Change conference, talking about “Enhancing the eBook”. The full video is available below, and the slides are also available online in full.

2010 Tools of Change. Book Analytics: A Wake Up Call

Peter gave a second, Ignite (five minute) talk at Tools of Change about the importance of gathering and learning from reader usage data within apps.

The slides are available online.

2010: London Book Fair

Peter gave another pecha kucha as part of the “innovation showcase”, talking about New Thinking, New Models. This video is not available to embed here, but is visible on the London Book Fair site.

2011: Non-fiction conference, Amsterdam

Peter spoke to a room of dutch and european publishers about the role of digital in publishing, enhancing the ebook, and the “reading cycle”. The full transcript of the entire conference is available as a PDF

Interviews with Peter Collingridge

2011: Digital Book World Interview

The iPhone Interviews: Peter Collingridge from Publishing Perspectives on Vimeo.

Interview by Ramy Habeeb for Publishing Perspectives website’s “Digital Innovators” series.

Interview by O’Reilly’s Kat Meyer for Teleread, The Digitizers: An interview with Peter Collingridge of Enhanced Editions

Interview by Oliver Wadeson for the London Evening Standard, How to read, hear and watch a novel on your iPhone

Interview with Sophie Rochester for The Literary Platform: After Bunny Munro, an Interview with Peter Collingridge

Press

Peter has written numerous articles and contrinbuted to The Bookseller and the trade press, as well as the national newspapers. (Subscription may be required for some of these):

Contact Peter Collingridge