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A Day in the Life of a …. Production Typesetter

Posted on July 2, 2008 in Uncategorized

Production is perhaps one of the more overlooked areas for people considering a career in Publishing. What exactly does the job involve? My job as a Production Typesetter involves working …

Geek's Corner: The Subtle Nuance of the Oxford Comma

Posted on June 25, 2008 in Uncategorized

‘There are people who embrace the Oxford comma, and people who don’t, and I’ll just say this, never get between these people when drink has been taken.’ – Lynne Truss, …

Geek’s Corner: The Subtle Nuance of the Oxford Comma

Posted on June 25, 2008 in Uncategorized

‘There are people who embrace the Oxford comma, and people who don’t, and I’ll just say this, never get between these people when drink has been taken.’ – Lynne Truss, …

Bridget Moans

Posted on June 25, 2008 in Uncategorized

I am aware that I can be a bit of a whinger at times. So I’m going to try and be positive for a change, pro-active even. This month, instead …

How to submit a job advert to the SYP website

Posted on June 25, 2008 in Uncategorized

First off, visit our Employers Home page: http://www.thesyp.org.uk/employers/index.php This is the platform that you will use to add jobs to the site. Before you can do this, however, you need …

Publishing Training Centre courses

Posted on June 25, 2008 in Uncategorized

**NEW** Digital Publishing Law 23 July – Wandsworth – Publishing in electronic media means a whole host of new legal issues – this course will help ensure you don’t get …

London Pub Crawl Map 2008

Posted on June 24, 2008 in Uncategorized

 The itinerary is: 18.30 – St Christopher’s Inn 121 Borough High Street 19.45 – The George Inn 77 Borough High Street 21.00 – Southwark Tavern 22 Southwark Street 22.00 -The …

Canon Tales – 12 speakers now confirmed

Posted on June 22, 2008 in Uncategorized

We are pleased to confirm the full 12 speaker line-up for Canon Tales, a new and very different SYP event which aims to promote publishing as the richly creative industry …

London Speaker Meeting: Book Production – A Matter of Ethics?

Posted on June 19, 2008 in Uncategorized

May’s speaker meeting covered the issue of ethics in book production, a topic that is gaining more and more attention both inside the publishing industry and without, and seems to …

Reprint of InPrint Crossword for you to print out

Posted on June 17, 2008 in Uncategorized

Across 1. Him and his big mouth (surname) 3. This publishing house is a French ax 6. Surname of the chair of the LBF SYP seminar 8. This SYP vice-chair …

SYP InPrint Vacancies

Posted on June 16, 2008 in Uncategorized

The Society of Young Publishers’ InPrint magazine has been running for more than 30 years, and has evolved continuously over that time. InPrint updates members on SYP news and keeps …

The Oxford Society of Young Publishers May Speaker Meeting

Posted on June 13, 2008 in Uncategorized

  Meet Oliver Brooks and Anna Lewis – two twenty-something Cambridge graduates starting up their own business. CompletelyNovel.com aims to bring a new level of collaboration to the book industry. …