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The Book Trade Charity

Posted on March 30, 2010 in Uncategorized

The Book Trade Charity, formally known as BTBS, have re-named and re-launched their charity. The Book Trade Charity have been have been helping people in the book industry for around …

Your Guide to Freelance Success

Posted on March 30, 2010 in Uncategorized

Emma Murray and Charlie Wilson are the authors of How to Succeed as a Freelancer in Publishing (working title), published by How To Books, available for purchase October 2010.   …

Editorial Training wants talented writers in publishing

Posted on March 29, 2010 in Uncategorized

Editorial Training is running a new writing competition aimed at publishers. Anyone who works in – or has worked in – book publishing in the UK can enter. This includes …

Commissioning Editor, London: 8

Posted on March 14, 2010 in Uncategorized

So they sent me on a conference abroad. It’s a big one, and it happens each year. Something like 3000 attendees. I was sat at my desk figuring out the flights a long …

Cambridge Publishing Society launch creates a buzz

Posted on March 13, 2010 in Uncategorized

Cambridge University Press (CUP), Lightning Source, Salt and HarperCollins are just a  handful of companies joining the just launched Cambridge Publishing Society (CAMPUS). CAMPUS is for anyone involved in publishing …

Copy Editing and Proofreading Seminar

Posted on March 13, 2010 in Uncategorized

On Wednesday 25th February the SYP held their first proofreading and copy editing practical workshop, which proved to be a very popular event, as the 60 reserved places went straightaway …

A Day in the Life of a … Copywriter

Posted on March 13, 2010 in Uncategorized

Tell us a bit about Headline and your career there to date. Headline are part of Hachette UK and publish a wide range of commercial fiction and non-fiction – we …

In Response To… the iPad

Posted on March 11, 2010 in Uncategorized

The recent launch of Apple’s much hallowed iPad has once again opened the debate on the publishing industry’s hesitant relationship with digital media. In the age of the Kindle and …

Annual General Meeting and Publishers' Question Time

Posted on March 10, 2010 in Uncategorized

The atrium at Penguin’s head office was packed for the SYP’s publisher’s question time and AGM 2010. Our speakers for the evening were: Jake Lingwood – publisher for Ebury Anna …

Annual General Meeting and Publishers’ Question Time

Posted on March 10, 2010 in Uncategorized

The atrium at Penguin’s head office was packed for the SYP’s publisher’s question time and AGM 2010. Our speakers for the evening were: Jake Lingwood – publisher for Ebury Anna …

London Book Club: January

Posted on March 10, 2010 in Uncategorized

Starter For Ten by David Nicholls One of the first things that everyone in our group noticed was that there was no mention of the name of the university in …

The Helen Fraser Publishing Fellowship

Posted on March 2, 2010 in Uncategorized

A great opportunity for Black and Ethnic Minority Editorial Talent Penguin Books, the world’s best known publishing company, is delighted to launch a newly established diversity traineeship for 2010. The …