Need to improve sales? Become more efficient? Save money? Tackle the digital revolution?

SnowAngels offers affordable publishing services, ranging from design and layout to making the most of your ONIX data. We are run by publishers, for publishers. “We” are Rob Jones and Emma Barnes, the founders, owners and managers of the award-winning small trade publisher, Snowbooks.

Our business background and IT skills have helped us to build Snowbooks into a successful business, but we know full well how hard it is to run a small publisher. We’ve spent a lot of time polishing the way we work: refining sales approaches and materials that sell books; writing code that makes our daily lives easier and less busy; and honing our design skills to make sure that our books look as good, and often better, than those of the major international publishers. And, as times get tougher, IT becomes more and more crucial, digitisation offers new opportunities and the market gets increasingly competitive, we’d like as many publishers as possible to benefit from our hard-won skills and insights.

Our approach

Why do we provide help in so many areas? We reject the idea of publishing as a production line, with editorial, sales, IT, design and marketing working as discrete divisions. Production lines are fine for making cars and widgets, but not for a creative, iterative process like publishing. We like to consider the whole process, to encourage joined up thinking and to make the publishing process run smoothly. Working cross-discipline like this leads to innovation. For instance, if a marketing person takes the time to read up on XSLT, she will know that she can take ONIX data and automatically populate her AIs, catalogues and marketing materials. If an editor is skilled in book design, she can either brief with greater precision, tackle the job herself or at least know how to resize images for different purposes, thus saving time and money. Being able to take a book, personally, from inception to publication and beyond provides a great sense of ownership - and it promotes craftsmanship and a pride in one's work. Whether your company adopts this approach or not, we have had the benefit of this way of working and can share these benefits with you.

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