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The Great British SYP Picnic

Posted on August 19, 2010 in Uncategorized

On 14 August members of the SYP gathered for the society’s annual picnic on Hampstead Heath.  Those of you who thought better of trekking out to Hampstead in the rain, …

SYP @Phoenix

Posted on July 29, 2010 in Uncategorized

  Thursday 22nd July saw the second in the @Phoenix series of networking events for publishing professionals, at the Phoenix Artist Club. A charismatic venue with book covers decorating the …

London Book Club: June

Posted on July 29, 2010 in Uncategorized

  For June book club, we read The Other Hand by Chris Cleave. For those of you who don’t already know, this is the book whose jacket blurb begins ‘we …

The SYP Pub Quiz

Posted on July 29, 2010 in Uncategorized

At the beginning of June, the SYP hosted another round of its famous pub quiz, as part of The Book Trade Charity’s Action Week. Teams from the publishing world, including …

SYP supports the DSC South Asian Literature Festival

Posted on July 21, 2010 in Uncategorized

The SYP's former Chair Jon Slack, and current committee member, Bhavit Mehta, have embarked on a new project by directing UK's first ever South Asian literature festival, which will be …

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 …