So here's an exciting (to me, anyway) project I've been working on - I'd love to hear your thoughts. I'm going to be launching a website next week called www.thepubbench.com. It's a forum for publishers to share information: whether that's benchmarking information, such as comparing returns rates and printers, or tips and insights, such as how to create printer files, how to calculate a spine width, tips on cover design and typesetting, how best to manage and calculate royalties, and so on. It's not just me blathering on - I hope that lots of publishers will join, contribute and learn valuable things.

Take a look around, and if you want to get to the juicy stuff, ask me for the password for a free month's trial. I'd love to hear your thoughts.

//update: Ooh, here's a nice piece in the Bookseller and here's a nice piece from the Booksellers Association blog. Thanks chaps!//