The Words: a cup of coffee and podcast on the bus to work?
Yesterday Simon & Schuster UK launched a new podcast, The Words, a topical series of interviews, insights, discussions and ideas, plus exclusive essays from authors,…
Inside the Mind of a Book Pirate: Nielsen Study Shows Who Pirates Books
Devon Weston has been with Digimarc Guardian since June 2012, managing customer relations and operations for the company’s enterprise SaaS solutions within the online content-protection…
Smart, scalable and responsible print production [Heather O’Connell interview]
Heather O’Connell has more than 20 years experience in the publishing industry and worked her way up from controller to senior management positions at Penguin…
Contract proofing: why adopt the latest profiles?
Jamie Robinson has been at f1 colour for 24 years, rising through the ranks to Managing Director. Over that time his passion for colour and…
Murder or Womanslaughter: Are publishers unintentionally killing creativity in thrillers?
Bridget Lawless is a screenwriter, novelist and educator. She has written a number of educational books about social issues, including drugs and violence. Currently she’s…
Production Editor, Academic [JOB POSTING]
Out of House Publishing Solutions is a fast-growing publishing services company based in Gloucestershire. We offer a comprehensive project management service for every kind of…
Accessibility matters: how we developed an app to make audiobooks more accessible
After 30 years in academic publishing (the final 13 years at board level) Jo Burges now co-runs i-Publishing Consultants. The team specialises in working with publishers, cultural…
How can you make your books stand out from the crowd?
Lindsay Powles has worked at Nielsen Book for 2 years as an Account Manager within their Discovery & Commerce team, predominately working with publishers who…
Junior Designer [JOB POSTING]
Quintet Publishing, part of The Quarto Group, is looking for a Junior Designer to join our busy team based in Brighton. The Quarto Group is…
2017 in review: from Nielsen BookScan
Jaclyn Swope is a Publisher Account Manager on the Book Research team at Nielsen BookScan, where she assists a variety of publishers with understanding and utilising…
Corporate Communications Manager [JOB POSTING]
This role at The Quarto Group is a full time, 9-12 months fixed term contract to cover part of the Group Director of Corporate Marketing…
Jonny Geller, best known literary agent in London, talks about 2018
Jonny Geller is Joint CEO of Curtis Brown and Managing Director of the books division. He tweets at @JonnyGeller. Here, Norah Myers chats with him…
Fifty Shades of Commercial Success
Kate Ellis is a freelance editor and runs Ellis Editorial, specialising in commercial crime, thriller and women’s fiction. She is also an editorial mentor for…
Members’ Update – January 2018
Hello First of all – Happy New Year to all our lovely members! Apologies if that’s the 235,078th time you’ve heard those fateful words, but…
Publicist/Associate Publicist [JOB POSTING]
Princeton University Press Location: Woodstock, Nr Oxford Deadline for application: Thursday 1st February 2018
