Production Controller [JOB OPPORTUNITY]
Publisher: The Quarto Group Job Title: Production Controller, permanent, full time Job Location: London, UK We’re looking for an enthusiastic person looking to take the…
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Getting to Know a Niche Market
Áine Ryan is a Marketing Executive at Jessica Kingsley Publishers, where she looks after their list of books on autism and neurodiversity. She has previously…
A day in the life: Marketing in Academic Publishing
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…
How the UK publishing industry compares to the Australian industry
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.…
Marketing Executive [JOB POSTING]
Description: 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…
BookMachine launches brand spanking new event series: BookMachine Unplugged 2019
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,…
Interview with Claire Maxwell, Freelance Book Publicist
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…
Studio Care 101: How publishers can look after their audiobook studios
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…
How to get the most out of commissioned images
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…
Content is still king: The first State of Media and Publishing in Digital meetup
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…
Interview with Sara O’Connor [Full Stack Developer]
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…
Becoming part of the ‘content machine’: Interview with Maria Giovanna Brauzzi, Bloomsbury Academic
“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…
Silence is the ultimate consent: why companies are becoming political
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 publishing job that’s a rollercoaster of rewards: the literary agent
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…
Ecommerce Executive [JOB POSTING]
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…