Past Events | External Publishing Event
Tue 19 June 2012 at 1.30 pm
The Cutting Edge of Digital
Venturefest 2012
Taking Place: Said Business School, Oxford
This is an exciting time for digital developments as new devices have arrived for the consumption of media. How are traditional publishers adapting to the digital possibilities, and how are new players shaping the future of creative industries such as games and publishing? Will there be convergence amongst media when, for example, books, games, and magazines can all be consumed on an iPad, or will there remain distinct categories? What are the possibilities for the export of digital products?
Further information on the VentureFest web site
Type of Event: Publishing | External Publishing Event
Wed 28 March 2012 at 4.30 pm
Digital Futures - Oxford Literary Festival
Oxford Literary Festival
Wednesday 28 March, 6.30 pm
Taking Place: Oxford Literary Festival
Last Christmas in the UK around one million ebook readers and half a million tablet computers were given as presents. Publishers are responding by producing apps and ebooks, some of which have already become bestsellers. What is the digital future for the book in a world where the expectations of both authors and readers are changing fast? A panel of experts give their views on the evolving digital landscape in publishing.
The Chair is Angus Phillips, Director of the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies at Oxford Brookes University. His books include Inside Book Publishing (with Giles Clark) and The Future of the Book in the Digital Age (edited with Bill Cope). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the premier publishing journal Logos. He has degrees from Oxford and Warwick universities and before joining Oxford Brookes he ran a trade and reference list at Oxford University Press. He has been a judge for the Bookseller industry awards for the last three years.
Michael Bhaskar is Digital Publishing Director at leading independent publisher Profile Books. He is responsible for spearheading their digital strategy, their ebook program, web presences, social media and digital business development in creating new products and platforms. Over the past few years Michael has written and talked extensively on the topic of digital publishing. He has worked as Digital Editor at Pan Macmillan, at the literary agency Rogers, Coleridge and White, reviewed books for The Daily Telegraph, worked for an economics research firm, and builds websites like quikqr.com, a barcode generator. Michael has a degree in English Literature from the University of Oxford and was British Council Young Creative Entrepreneur 2011. He is on Twitter as @ajaxlogos.
Henry Volans is Head of Digital Publishing, Faber & Faber, where he has produced successful apps such as Solar System and The Waste Land. He joined Canongate in its Edinburgh office from Cambridge University. He moved to London (and Faber) in October 2003 as a non-fiction editorial assistant, before becoming a commissioning editor for non-fiction, a position which then morphed into a digital role ‘at a time when people didn’t know what that meant’.
Kate Wilson is a founder and Managing Director of Nosy Crow, a new children’s publishing company publishing print and ebooks for 0-12 year olds and highly interactive and multi-award-winning storybook apps for children from 2 to 7. The company published its first books and apps in 2011, and was shortlisted for four Independent Publishers Guild awards. Kate won the Mumpreneur Inspiring Business Mum of the Year award in 2011. Before setting up Nosy Crow, Kate started her career in international rights, before going on to run Macmillan Children’s Books and Scholastic UK Ltd.
To buy tickets for the event, please visit:
http://oxfordliteraryfestival.org/events/detail/digital-futures
Type of Event: Publishing | External Publishing Event
Thu 9 February 2012 at 5.30 pm
OpUS: International Evening 2012 - India
Taking Place: Blake Lapthorn, Oxford
Please see the OPUS web site for more information
Type of Event: External Publishing Event
Thu 24 November 2011 at 5.30 pm
Reaching Tablets & eReaders: UK channels for ebooks
OPUS
Taking Place: Main Lecture Theatre, Oxford Brookes University
The landscape of eReading devices and channels to reach them is rapidly changing in the UK today. This seminar focuses on established and emerging channels for selling your ebooks. OPuS is delighted to have Linda Bennett of Gold Leaf to provide an overview of the UK ebook market and emerging models including ebook borrowing, and Lindsay Mooney of Kobo to talk about their partnership with WH Smith’s and how Kobo can work with publishers in the UK to distribute ebooks both here in the UK ad worldwide.
Type of Event: Publishing | External Publishing Event
Wed 28 September 2011 at 4.29 pm
Strengthening your digital strategy: case studies in social media
This is an SYP event
Taking Place: Magdalen College Auditorium, Oxford
You're a marketer for the Man, but your job is to hide that. Your promotions budget is smaller than your last pay cheque. Or you think you can promote your book better than your publisher. As a player in the competitive publishing landscape, you need to be increasingly savvy to ensure that the right messages get to the right people to grow your sales, inform your promotions and basically help you convince your customers that you’re a cool business full of equally great people.
Our first speaker meeting of the 2011 academic year brings together a fantastic panel of social media experts from both inside and outside the industry to help you understand how you can make social media work for you.
Type of Event: Publishing | External Publishing Event
Mon 16 May 2011 at 6.00 pm
Bookseller Industry Awards
Monday 16 May 2011
Hilton Park Lane, London
Now in its second year, The Bookseller Industry Awards aim to recognise the very best in and of the book trade. The awards celebrate book publishing, retailing - and, for the first time this year, public libraries. The categories include Independent Publisher of the Year, Imprint and Editor of the Year, and Publisher of the Year. This year there are two new categories, one for library innovation, and a new one to find the best children's publisher.
The judges include the author Kate Mosse, marketing strategist Damian Horner, and Angus Phillips, Director of the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies.
For more information visit here
Type of Event: Publishing | External Publishing Event
Wed 13 April 2011 at 1.30 pm
Children’s Publishing Around the World - London Book Fair Seminar, 13th April
London Book Fair, Earls Court, London
Wednesday 13 April 2011
14:30, Children's Theatre, Earls Court 1
Taking Place: London Book Fair
Once upon a time, children’s publishing was an ugly duckling. Now, with the sales of children’s bestsellers matching those of titles aimed at adults, and new technology inviting children to engage in different ways with stories, the duckling-become-swan holds its head high, and publishers are vying with each other to sign up and keep key authors.
Three speakers, representing different parts of the world and different roles within the exciting field of children’s publishing, will discuss what’s happening and what the future may hold. Let’s hope it’s not tears before bedtime!
Type of Event: Publishing | External Publishing Event | Publishing Seminars
Tue 12 April 2011 at 12.00 pm
Tweet smell of success? London Book Fair seminar 12 April
Oxford Brookes seminar
How to use social media to best effect
Taking Place: London Book Fair
London Book Fair, Earls Court, London
Tuesday 12 April 2011
13.00 Westminster Room, Earls Court 1
Many companies appreciate the necessity to engage with social media, including blogs, Twitter and Facebook. What is the marketing strategy behind this engagement and what kind of results can be expected? Publishers may be building their brand online, creating communities, or aiming to drive the sales of individual titles. Come and hear three experts explain the range of benefits from using social media.
Type of Event: Publishing | External Publishing Event
Tue 12 April 2011 at 9.00 am
Greening the Book: Digital or Print? London Book Fair Seminar,12th April
Oxford Brookes seminar
Taking Place: London Book Fair
London Book Fair, Earls Court, London
Tuesday 12 April 2011
10:00 Wellington Rooms, Earls Court 1
What is the carbon footprint of a printed book, and how does it compare with the carbon footprint of an e-book or an e-reader? Is digital more environmentally friendly than print? Should publishers stick with print, or lead the rush to digital?
These questions are of serious concern to those in the industry as well as to authors and readers, as e-books and e-readers start making significant inroads into the domain of the printed book; where countervailing claims are easy to make, hard to prove, and even less easy to interpret.
The seminar brings together an expert panel from the publishing industry to look at the current issues thrown up by the digital/print debate, to explore the extent to which the publishing industry has gone to reduce its carbon footprint, and to assess the options for not only reducing it further but for making it really green and sustainable as well.
Type of Event: Publishing | External Publishing Event
Mon 11 April 2011 at 8.00 am
Visit the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies at the London Book Fair 2011
Taking Place: Earls Court, London
Visit the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies at the London Book Fair in April 2011. We're at Stand O580, and would be delighted to meet with you - feel free to drop by, or to make an appointment contact Sarah Gilkes, Business Development intern, at sarah.gilkes@brookes.ac.uk
Type of Event: Publishing | External Publishing Event
Thu 17 February 2011 at 5.30 pm
OPUS International Evening - Central and Eastern Europe
The Oxford Publishing Society heat up grey February, making Central and Eastern Europe their theme for the annual OPuS International Evening.
Type of Event: Publishing | External Publishing Event
Fri 22 October 2010 at 1.00 am
Author Events at Blackwell Bookshop, Oxford
Autumn Events at Blackwell Bookshop, Oxford
Tickets are available from Blackwell Customer Service Department. Please telephone 01865 333623.
Type of Event: External Publishing Event
Fri 16 July 2010 at 8.30 am
Onix Summer School
Join us for a day when we’ll demystify ONIX and show you how you can unleash its power. You’ll wonder how it ever seemed so daunting.
Taking Place: Tonge IT Suite, Oxford Brookes University
9.30am - 5pm
Audience: No previous knowledge required, but an interest in streamlining the use of bibliographic data is necessary
Price: £295 per delegate
(Price includes a memory stick containing a full single user licence of the Onix Central Publishing Manager worth £315 and all tools necessary to create catalogues and AIs from ONIX worth £1250. Discounts on data migration available for delegates.)
Type of Event: Publishing | External Publishing Event
Tue 27 April 2010 at 5.30 pm
Career Progression in Publishing: OPuS Event
Drinks: 18.30
Talk Starts: 19.30
Taking Place: Oxford Brookes University (Gypsy Lane Campus)
Refreshments will be served in the Lloyd Board Room and the talks will be in the Lloyd Lecture Theatre
Sign up today! Speakers:
- Jamie McOuat, Rights Focus Ltd
- Claudia Filsinger, Consultant
- Graham Hobbs, STM publishing
Whether you move ahead in your career via knockout scores in psychometric tests, networking skills, insider dealing, or hard graft, you need to make sure you are well prepared to take advantage of opportunities as they arise. Come and hear from people who know how to do it - it's a panel session with brief talks from our three speakers, followed by a longer-than-usual Q & A session with you, the audience.
Type of Event: Publishing | External Publishing Event
Mon 19 April 2010 to Wed 21 April 2010
The Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies at the 2010 London Book Fair
Taking Place: Various seminar rooms at Earls Court, London
Visit the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies at the London Book Fair in April 2010. We're at Stand O580, and would be delighted to meet with you - feel free to drop by, or to make an appointment contact Mary Malin, Business Development Manager mmalin@brookes.ac.uk
Type of Event: Publishing | External Publishing Event
Wed 24 March 2010 at 6.30 pm
OPuS event: The Societal Tsunami
Social media and social networking in publishing
Taking Place: Gipsy Lane Campus, Oxford Brookes University
Speakers: Sam Missingham (The Bookseller) and Davina Quarterman (Wiley-Blackwell)
Do you tweet? Are you connected to the blogosphere? Do you have a Facebook profile?
For those of you who don’t have a clue what we’re on about, welcome to the brave new world of social media and social networking.
Type of Event: External Publishing Event
