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Publishing Recruitment – Research Study

Posted on July 20, 2010 in Uncategorized

The worldwide publishing industry employs several million people in a variety of roles and publishers need efficient and successful methods for finding suitable recruits. How different publishers tackle this – …

Bookcareers Job Club

Posted on July 1, 2010 in Uncategorized

Are you unemployed and from the UK Book Trade?  Then you might qualify for free help from the bookcareers.com job club.  The job club has been ongoing since September 2009 …

Play Your Part in Shaping Future Skills

Posted on June 15, 2010 in Uncategorized

Did you go to the London Book Fair this year? Were you at the SYP session on ‘How to Get Into Publishing’? If yes, you may remember me. I was …

Notes from a Small Book Fair: Part 2

Posted on June 11, 2010 in Uncategorized

This seminar, organised by Nielsen, covered how to go about setting up a publishing company; what you should do and, maybe more importantly, what you shouldn’t do. It also considered …

How to get into Publishing

Posted on June 5, 2010 in Uncategorized

There can be no doubt that this year’s volcano stricken London Book Fair was a noticeably quieter affair. One thing there is never a shortage of though, are people hoping …

Today (June 3rd) Only: Skillset talks about routes into B2B

Posted on June 3, 2010 in Uncategorized

Skillset’s publishing sector manager Suzanne Kavanagh will feature in a question-and-answer session on careers in business-to-business publishing on the Guardian Careers website today (Thursday, 3 June). Suzanne Kavanagh, on new …

'Getting ahead in Publishing'

Posted on June 2, 2010 in Uncategorized

The SYP’s second event at London Book Fair was aimed at showing young publishers in their second and third jobs, how to ‘get ahead in publishing’. A distinguished panel of …

‘Getting ahead in Publishing’

Posted on June 2, 2010 in Uncategorized

The SYP’s second event at London Book Fair was aimed at showing young publishers in their second and third jobs, how to ‘get ahead in publishing’. A distinguished panel of …

In Response To … The Waterstone's Rebrand

Posted on May 26, 2010 in Uncategorized

  Waterstone’s have recently unveiled their new branding. Appearing on their website and across their stores, the new logo – a rounded, lower-case ‘W’ – and slogan – ‘Feel Every …

London Book Club: May

Posted on May 26, 2010 in Uncategorized

  May’s book club choice was The British Museum is Falling Down, by David Lodge, a comic novel set in the 60s, in which we spend a day with Adam, …

In Response To … The Waterstone’s Rebrand

Posted on May 26, 2010 in Uncategorized

  Waterstone’s have recently unveiled their new branding. Appearing on their website and across their stores, the new logo – a rounded, lower-case ‘W’ – and slogan – ‘Feel Every …

Notes from a Small Book Fair: Part 1

Posted on May 26, 2010 in Uncategorized

This seminar was given by Gareth Howard, Director of Authoright PR (www.authoright.com) While I have no doubt that the target audience for this seminar was freelance authors, (and perhaps even …