Publishing News | Publishing

Frankfurt Book Fair visit 2008

Students from the MA Publishing courses at Oxford Brookes University visited the Frankfurt Book Fair in October 2008. At the Fair they had meetings with a range of publishers large and small, including A&C Black, Attwooll Associates, Camelot Editions, Casemate, Continuum, Dorling Kindersley, Infinite Ideas, Myriad Editions, New Internationalist, Orion, Patmos Verlag, Pearson Education, Playbac, Random House, and Wiley.

Full News item here

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 21 Nov 2008 around 2pm

Filed Under Publishing

Publishing Students hand-press print at the Bodleian

Students from the MAs in Publishing at the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies at Oxford Brookes University recently visited the Bodleian Library, where they learned about the theory and practice of hand-press printing.

Guided by Paul Nash (who is also a PhD student at the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies), students found out more about the development of printing in the 15th century, and then had the opportunity to set their own type and print a keepsake.  MA student Marina Debattista writes about the experience:

Full News item here

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 20 Nov 2008 around 2pm

Filed Under Postgraduate | Publishing | European Publishing

Claire Squires judges a book by its cover for the Financial Times

Claire Squires, Senior Lecturer in Publishing at Oxford Brookes University, recently wrote an article for the Financial Times on the cover design of Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons.

Writing for a series in the FT called 'How to Judge a Book by its Cover', Squires explains how the design pictured here did not appear until 1938 (8 years after initial publication of the book). Ransome only started illustrating his own work with the third in the Swallows and Amazons series, Peter Duck, as a textual joke: the pictures were supposed to have been drawn by the children in the book.

Full News item here

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 16 Nov 2008 around 3pm

Filed Under Research | Oxford Publishing & Digital Media | Publishing | European Publishing | Oxford Centre for Publishing Consultancy and Research

Publishing and the Environment

The environment is a big issue in contemporary publishing. Recently, OPUS (the Oxford Publishing Society) hosted an event at Oxford Brookes University to discuss the issues. Marie Hanson, an MA in Publishing student at the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies at Oxford Brookes University, reports from the event:

'Edward Milford, Chairman of Earthscan, opened his speech ‘Greening our Publishing' with the provocative question "Is it possible?" He raised key issues such as the sustainability of the ‘green' process, and identified it as an industry-wide problem, which cannot be solved by individual companies working in isolation. With that in mind he outlined his own company's Environmental Policy, stating that in order for it to be a success it must have a substantial effect on the production process; if the policy allows you to continue ‘business as usual', it's not likely to produce the most impressive results.

Full News item here

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 03 Nov 2008 around 5pm

Filed Under Oxford Publishing & Digital Media | Publishing | European Publishing | Oxford Centre for Publishing Consultancy and Research

Publishing Student works at the Frankfurt Book Fair

The annual Frankfurt Book Fair is the biggest book fair in the world. This year, part-time MA in Publishing student Jonathan Davis from the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies was invited to work on the Independent Publishers Guild (IPG) stand during the Fair.

Jonathan reports:

'They came, they saw, they bartered and then they left. Outlasting the Frankfurt Book Fair before it outlasts you presents a unique opportunity to view the actions and behaviours of a rare breed of animal which come into full display every year at this time: the Frankfurt Book Fair buying public. If David Attenborough were to shoot a documentary on these creatures great and small this is where he would begin.

'I had the repeat pleasure of assisting my London Book Fair friends, the Independent Publishers Guild (IPG), with their activities in Germany this year and got a taste of what it's like to be on the other side of the exhibitors' stand. Attending the fair for the first time last year with the Oxford Brookes MA in Publishing programme and seeing the business between publishers happen in the flesh - I felt a repeat experience was needed as the sheer size of the event was slightly overwhelming. The IPG provided me with an accessible way this year to get my hands dirty for the last two days of the fair when the general public are allowed access to over 7,000 publishers and the tens of thousands of books available. All to be bought, bargained for and carried home by any means necessary.

Full News item here

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 24 Oct 2008 around 3pm

Filed Under Oxford Publishing & Digital Media | Publishing | European Publishing | Oxford Centre for Publishing Consultancy and Research

Publishing students contribute to Richard Charkin’s Blog Book

Students from the MA in Publishing at the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies have helped in the publication of Richard Charkin's blog in book form. Chark Blog was written while Richard Charkin was CEO of Macmillan, and ended in September 2007 when he left to lead Bloomsbury. But digital has turned to print (on demand), and the book was launched in September 2008. A team of students (Mary Berry, Nayumi Furuta, Rhianna Jones, Holly Vitow, Amy Wigelsworth and Shell Xu) indexed the book, and Caitlyn Miller, who led the indexing team, also worked with Macmillan to prepare the book for publication.

Full News item here

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 25 Sep 2008 around 8pm

Filed Under Oxford Publishing & Digital Media | Publishing | European Publishing | Oxford Centre for Publishing Consultancy and Research

Times of India profiles Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies

In August 2008 The Times of India published an article on the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies and its degree programmes. The profile included interviews with students and alumni from India from both the BA and MA publishing degrees.  Ankit Vij, studying BA Publishing, said: 'Apart from the fact that Oxford is a lovely place to live in, OICPS would be my first and only recommendation to students looking for publishing programmes because of the course structure and the teaching standards.' Deepthi Talwar, a graduate of the MA in Publishing, commented: 'The publishing industry in India has grown at an incredible pace in the last couple of years. ... at  OICPS, I was given exposure to an industry that had already seen that growth many years back. So, one can learn a lot from their marketing, commissioning and production strategies.'

You can read the full Times of India article here.

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 16 Sep 2008 around 7am

Filed Under Publishing

Greek Publishing Industry

Greek publishing industry

Together with Christina Banou from the Ionian University in Greece, Angus Phillips has published a paper in Publishing Research Quarterly on the Greek publishing industry. The paper provides an overview of the publishing industry in Greece and suggests areas for further investigation. Topics covered include the structure of the industry and notable features of the book market, including the profile of publishers, the role of information technology, and national book policy.

The Greek market for books is small and as a consequence less attractive to international publishing groups. In 2006 around 9,200 new titles were published, of which over 40 per cent were translated titles. There were 730 publishing houses, mostly small and medium-sized companies, and many publishers remain family-owned enterprises. There are fixed prices for books in the first two years after publication, and there are around 2,000 bookshops in Greece.

Christina Banou and Angus Phillips, ‘The Greek Publishing Industry and Professional Development’, Publishing Research Quarterly, 24:2, June 2008.

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 28 Aug 2008 around 2pm

Filed Under Publishing | European Publishing

Book Launch - ‘Inside Book Publishing’

Routledge and the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies held a reception on Monday 14 July 2008 to celebrate the publication of the fourth edition of Inside Book Publishing by Giles Clark and Angus Phillips. The reception was held at Headington Hill Hall, Oxford Brookes University. Many publishing professionals attended, together with Oxford Brookes alumni and the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Janet Beer.

Full News item here

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 16 Jul 2008 around 7am

Filed Under Research | Publishing

Philip Pullman to be Creative Writing Fellow for MA in Creative Writing

Philip Pullman has agreed to be one of the new Fellows for Oxford Brookes' forthcoming MA in Creative Writing, and will be launching the course in September.

The new and exciting MA will bring opportunities for writers to develop their work across a wide range of genres, including screen writing.

Teaching on the course will be novelist James Hawes (A White Merc with Fins , Rancid Aluminium and most recently Speak for England) and poet Jane Yeh (Marabou and Teen Spies), as well as other Creative Writing Fellows who will be announced shortly.

Full News item here

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 12 Jun 2008 around 2pm

Filed Under Postgraduate | Publishing

Page 31 of 46 pages

« First  <  29 30 31 32 33 >  Last »