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Book Trade Charity Free Training Course Offer

Posted on January 19, 2010 in Uncategorized

The Book Trade Charity are offering a place for an SYP member, preferably someone who has been in the book trade for one year or more and is currently unemployed, …

Commissioning Editor, London: 6

Posted on December 24, 2009 in Uncategorized

So what shape do you think that a broken heart takes? In what sense can that phrase be construed? I’m serving breakfast in bed to Dorothy with a phrase running through my …

Book offers for SYP members

Posted on December 7, 2009 in Uncategorized

Eternity Press are offering SYP members £4.00 off Greg Hamerton’s fantasy novel The Riddler’s Gift.  SYP Web Content editor Kevin Mahoney is also offering SYP members free proof copies of the …

Reviews of the 2009 SYP Conference now online

Posted on November 26, 2009 in Uncategorized

If you missed out on this year’s SYP conference, then you can catch up with what happened via a couple of reviews that we have of the event on InPrint …

2 Awards for Publishing from The Stationers’ Foundation

Posted on November 25, 2009 in Uncategorized

Scholarships On Offer Francis Mathew Stationers’ Company Scholarships are offered again this year to young persons in the printing, publishing and paper industries and associated trades.  These scholarships were established …

Dark Fairy Tales Saturday 28th November

Posted on November 25, 2009 in Uncategorized

SYP Project 60 Coorindator and publisher of Saadhak Books, Bhav Mehta, will be performing at the Dark Fairytales event at the Watermans Theatre in Brentford on Saturday 28th November.  He will …

UK Young Publishing Entrepreneur award 2010

Posted on November 24, 2009 in Uncategorized

The deadline for applications for the UK Young Publishing Entrepreneur award 2010 has been extended until 14 December. The market focus for the study tour is South Africa. This will …

SYP Conference: freedom, responsibility and the bottom line

Posted on November 23, 2009 in Uncategorized

The recent SYP Annual Conference tackled some major questions as it examined "the impact of publishing on society". Jon Slack and Alan Crompton report on the weekend’s highlights This report …

SYP Conference 2009: Making an ImPRESSion

Posted on November 22, 2009 in Uncategorized

Given what the weather conditions were like on the weekend of the SYP conference, it was a sure-fire bet a lot of young (and not-so-young) publishers would be blowing about …

50% discount for SYP members for The Writer’s Handbook 2010

Posted on November 18, 2009 in Uncategorized

The publishers of The Writer’s Handbook 2010 are offering SYP members a 50% discount off the cover price.  To claim this discount, please visit our Offers page. Of particular revelance to SYP members …

wordPLAY 1st December

Posted on November 18, 2009 in Uncategorized

Date:  Tuesday, 01 December 2009 Time:  19:00 – 22:30 Location: The Good Ship, Kilburn wordPLAY London spoken word extravaganza presents: ‘wordPLAN – Twisted Christmas’ – all proceeds to Plan International Featured Writers: …

BookBrunch offer 15% discount to SYP members

Posted on November 14, 2009 in Uncategorized

BookBrunch, one of the industry’s leading trade journals, is offering a 15% discount off the subscription prices to members of the SYP;  in order to get this you would need to …