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Publications from Publishing
This month sees a number of new publications by members of staff in the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies.Angus Phillips and Claire Squires both have articles in the Blackwell Companion to the History of the Book, which is edited by Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose. Claire's article is on 'The Global Market 1970-2000: Consumers', and Angus's addresses the question 'Does the Book Have a Future?'
Jane Potter's article 'For Country, Conscience and Commerce: Publishers and Publishing, 1914-1918' is in the Palgrave volume Publishing in the First World War: Essays in Book History, edited by Mary Hammond and Shafquat Towheed. Her article is available from the Palgrave website as a pdf.
Finally, the book trade journal Logos (18/1) includes Angus's article 'Cover Story: Cover Design in the Marketing of Fiction'. Angus has also been invited to join the editorial board of Logos.
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Harcourt Education award epublishing prizes
Harcourt Education, a publishing company with local offices in Oxford, have been involved with the MA epublishing module here at Brookes for the seventh year running. Small teams of students developed new electronic prototype products based on Harcourt’s Heinemann books.Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 18 May 2007 around 2pm
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Publishing trip to the Bologna Book Fair
Staff and students from the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies recently visited the Bologna Book FairThe Book Fair, which concentrates on the children's and young adults' market sectors, also has an emphasis on illustration.
During the trip, students from the MA in Publishing had the opportunity to make contacts with professionals in the children's book world both from the UK and abroad. Students had meetings with the literary agent Catherine Clarke; the film and TV scout Fiona Kenshole; children's books editor of the Guardian newspaper, Julia Eccleshare; Elizabeth Wright of Usborne; Alyx Price, group publicity director of Scholastic; Robert Seath of Lion Hudson; and Eirin Hagen of the Hagen Agency in Norway.
Students also met with graduates from the Oxford Brookes Publishing courses who were attending the Fair, including Helen Norris (now at Usborne) and Ed Glover (who has his own company Transedition/Camelot). One of the current students, Sam Hutchinson, was working at the B Small stand during the Fair.
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A Day of New Product Development for Publishing
Masters students in the publishing department spent the day presenting their 'New Product Developments' to their peers and OICPS staff.
The presentations, which took place in the Lloyd lecture theatre, were followed by a social gathering in the Buckley Building.
More photographs are available here.
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London Book Fair
The Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies had a stand at the London Book Fair at Earl’s Court in April.
Seen here are Angus Phillips and Jan Kasprzycki-Rosikon, MA class 2004-5, Head of Rights at Pearson Education.
More photographs can be seen here.
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Jon Snow visits the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies
The Chancellor of Oxford Brookes, Jon Snow, visited the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies on Friday 27 April. The Centre has recently moved to the Buckley Building, the University’s new research building, opened in 2006. He met with staff from the Centre and heard about the range of activities carried out in the areas of teaching, research, and consultancy.Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 27 Apr 2007 around 7pm
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Publishing News Issue 1
The Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies have issued their first print newsletter. This is available as a PDF from here.Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 16 Apr 2007 around 2pm
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Publishing students feature on HarperCollins blog
From this week, students on the MA Publishing programmes at the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies will be featuring on the HarperCollins blog, Fifth Estate.
Students will be contributing regularly to the company's collective blog, which also features contributions from publishers, authors and HarperCollins CEO and Oxford Brookes honorary graduate Victoria Barnsley. Students have been invited to contribute to the site by its creator and editor-in-chief, Kate Hyde, who is a senior editor at HarperCollins's Press Books. She is also an alumni of Oxford Brookes Publishing programme.
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Police visit Publishing!
Today, the Publishing Department was visited by two police officers from Thames Valley Police.
The crime?
Trying to write a detective novel...
The two officers were invited to speak to students on the first year undergraduate module Authorship and Creative Writing. Students in the class are set the assignment of writing the opening chapter of a crime novel, and then thinking about how to get their work published.
The two police officers told the students about procedure when answering 999 calls, entering a crime scene, finding dead bodies, detection and investigation and giving evidence in court, as well as painting a picture of the life of the police both on and off-duty. Students asked questions relating to their writing projects, to help their work be as authentic as possible.
Other visiting speakers on the module include Carolyn Caughey, an editor who commissions crime writing at Hodder Headline publishers, and the crime novelist Veronica Stallwood, whose series of Kate Ivory books are set in Oxford.
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New Undergraduate Brochure
A new brochure for Undergraduate Publishing is available for download
The new brochure, can be downloaded from here. The PDF is approximately 150k in size and has colour illustrations.
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