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A day in the life: Marketing in Academic Publishing

Written by Sophie Eminson on February 19, 2019. Posted in Marketing and publicity.

I am Sophie Eminson, a marketing assistant at Springer Nature, and a book blogger at www.romanticsrebelsandreviews.wordpress.com, where I also share insights into the publishing industry and job hunting tips. I am also the Communications Officer for the Society of Young Publishers 2019 committee. I currently work on the biggest journal in the world, Scientific Reports, and am looking forward to sharing my experience of marketing in academic publishing with you.

How the UK publishing industry compares to the Australian industry

Written by Ella Chapman on February 7, 2019. Posted in Marketing and publicity.

Ella Chapman is the Head of Marketing Communications at Hachette Australia. Previously she worked in London at Quercus and Little, Brown. You can follow @EllaLChapman.

I moved to Sydney with my husband in March 2017 for the simple reason of trying something new. Before that I’d worked in UK publishing for six years, first at a business publisher and then in trade publishing.

Marketing Executive [JOB POSTING]

Written by admin on February 6, 2019. Posted in Marketing and publicity.

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Simon & Schuster UK is home to some of the most distinctive fiction, non-fiction and children’s books. We work intimately with our authors while providing a platform for huge international success.

BookMachine launches brand spanking new event series: BookMachine Unplugged 2019

Written by Laura Summers on January 15, 2019. Posted in Articles, Audio, Business, Design, Editorial, Marketing and publicity, Production, Tech.

The popular event series is back, covering key industry topics – Production, Editorial, Tech, Marcomms, Audio and Design. This year there will be 6 Unplugged events, with 6 hosts, more than 18 confirmed speakers, 1 brand new venue and an awards ceremony.

Interview with Claire Maxwell, Freelance Book Publicist

Written by Laura Summers on November 23, 2018. Posted in Marketing and publicity, Publicity for authors, Social media.

Claire Maxwell is an experienced publicist and former journalist. Having worked at some of the UK’s leading publishing houses including Canongate Books, Claire has implemented PR campaigns that have seen titles rocket up the bestsellers charts. She was the publicist behind the campaign for the Sunday Times Bestselling How to Stop Time by Matt Haig, and has worked on a huge variety of books and projects. She co-programmed BookMachine Unplugged 2018: Talking Marcomms, which takes place this Wednesday evening [SOLD OUT] and sits on the BookMachine Editorial Board.

Studio Care 101: How publishers can look after their audiobook studios

Written by Neil Gardner on September 28, 2018. Posted in Audio, Audio software, Audiobooks.

Neil Gardner is the managing director of leading UK audiobook production house Ladbroke Audio, and independent audiobook publisher Spokenworld Audio. He is an international award-winning producer/director/writer and an Earphones Award-winning audiobook narrator, as well as a sound designer and author. In summer 2018 he founded the Audiobook Creators Alliance.

How to get the most out of commissioned images

Written by Rosamund Saunders on September 26, 2018. Posted in Cover and internal design, Creative Media, Design.

Rosamund Saunders is a lifelong book designer. London-based, she began her publishing career with HarperCollins and moved on to work freelance, specialising in illustrated non-fiction books. She has designed food, crafts and lifestyle books for the co-editions market and art-directed photography for cookery, health and fitness titles. Find out more at https://rosamundsaunders.co.uk.

Content is still king: The first State of Media and Publishing in Digital meetup

Written by Francesca Zunino Harper on September 19, 2018. Posted in Business, Coding and other skills, New technologies, Products, Strategy, Tech.

Francesca Zunino Harper is a linguist, translator, and publishing professional. She worked in the British and international academia researching on comparative literatures, translation, and women’s and environmental humanities for several years. She now works in the Humanities and Social Sciences area of publishing. You can follow her @ZuninoFrancesca.

Interview with Sara O’Connor [Full Stack Developer]

Written by Sara O'Connor on September 19, 2018. Posted in Articles, Coding and other skills, Tech.

Sara O’Connor worked in children’s publishing for 13 years and is now a full-time web developer. Frustrated with the cost and creative limitations of outsourcing good digital ideas (check out this article), she decided to retrain as a programmer. She now works with Emma Barnes at Consonance (the new name for Bibliocloud), helping to build the software she wished she had when she worked in publishing. Sara will be joining our panel at BookMachine Unplugged 2018: Talking Tech.

Becoming part of the ‘content machine’: Interview with Maria Giovanna Brauzzi, Bloomsbury Academic

Written by Francesca Zunino Harper on July 30, 2018. Posted in Editorial. 1 Comment

“A publishing house is a fragile organism, dear sir,” he says. “If at any point something goes askew, then the disorder spreads, chaos opens beneath our feet. Forgive me, won’t you? When I think about it I have an attack of vertigo.” And he covers his eyes, as if pursued by the sight of billions of pages, lines, words, whirling in a dust storm.”

Italo Calvino, If On a Winter’s Night a Traveller

Starting her interview with this great quote as she’s a passionate Calvino devotee, Maria Giovanna Brauzzi is Assistant Editor on the Education list at Bloomsbury Academic. Francesca Zunino Harper asked her some questions to know more about what working at an academic publisher involves on a day to day basis.

Silence is the ultimate consent: why companies are becoming political

Written by Emma Barnes on July 1, 2018. Posted in Tech. 1 Comment

Emma Barnes taught herself to code after founding her own independent publisher, Snowbooks. She went on to build Bibliocloud, the next-generation publishing system. Now she’s on a mission to promote tech skills within the publishing industry and beyond.

A publishing job that’s a rollercoaster of rewards: the literary agent

Written by Kate Nash on May 25, 2018. Posted in Articles, Business, Editorial, Literary Agents.

As a former author, publisher, publicist and marketer, Kate Nash has seen every side of publishing and set up her own literary agency so she could do “the best job in publishing”. Kate’s reading tastes – from romance to thrillers – are highly commercial. Kate is listed at #20 in UK Fiction by Publishers Marketplace, based on number of deals made (Feb 2017). You can find Kate on Twitter @katenashagent.

Ecommerce Executive [JOB POSTING]

Written by BookMachine on May 21, 2018. Posted in Articles, Business, Digital Marketing, Marketing and publicity.

SPCK/IVP, winner of the IPG Specialist Consumer Publisher of the year for 2018 and 2017 and shortlisted for the recent Bookseller Independent Publisher of the Year is looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic Ecommerce Executive to join our busy Publicity and Marketing Department and help us increase our audience share and consumer reach.

The poetry boom, and how to tackle the fear factor

Written by Anne Nolan on May 4, 2018. Posted in Business, Editorial.

This is a guest post by Anne Nolan. Anne is a freelance publishing consultant, working with small independent and scholarly publishers. She is a board member of the Reading-based arts, history and poetry publisher Two Rivers Press, and consultant Marketing Director for Arc Humanities Press.

Marketing Executive [JOB POSTING]

Written by BookMachine on May 4, 2018. Posted in Marketing and publicity.

Location: Woking, United Kingdom Reports To: Senior Marking Manager, Marketing and Communications – Nielsen Entertainment

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A day in the life: Marketing in Academic Publishing

How the UK publishing industry compares to the Australian industry

Marketing Executive [JOB POSTING]

BookMachine launches brand spanking new event series: BookMachine Unplugged 2019

Studio Care 101: How publishers can look after their audiobook studios

How to get the most out of commissioned images

Content is still king: The first State of Media and Publishing in Digital meetup

Interview with Sara O’Connor [Full Stack Developer]

Becoming part of the ‘content machine’: Interview with Maria Giovanna Brauzzi, Bloomsbury Academic

Silence is the ultimate consent: why companies are becoming political

A publishing job that’s a rollercoaster of rewards: the literary agent

Ecommerce Executive [JOB POSTING]

The poetry boom, and how to tackle the fear factor

Marketing Executive [JOB POSTING]

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