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Writers’ freedoms and the silencing of dissent
The latest Publishing Research Seminar featured a talk from Ophelia Field, Acting Director of the Writers in Prison Programme - English PEN.On March 10, 2008, Ophelia gave a fascinating, chilling and passionate talk to students and staff of the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies about the history and work of English PEN and the Writers in Prison Programme, as well as the writers for whom English PEN is active.
From its apolitical beginnings in London in 1917 as a dining club for writers, International PEN has developed into an organisation with autonomous centres around the world, whose aims include the formation of a community of writers across cultures and the public upholding of human rights. In 1960 the Writers in Prison programme, which campaigns for writers imprisoned because of their work, was born. Since the late 1990s, English PEN has initiated new programmes building relationships between writers and communities and in 2004, the Writers in Translation programme was initiated, which provides grants to publishers to help them promote works in translation that they publish here in the UK.
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Working in Publishing Day
The Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies has just held its annual Working in Publishing Day. The day is an opportunity for our current students on the MA and BA in Publishing to talk to our alumni, gain careers advice, meet current employers and recruitment agencies.
Visitors included representatives from Cambridge University Press, Elsevier, HarperCollins, Haymarket, New Internationalist, Oxford University Press, Penguin, Sage, Usborne and Wiley Blackwell.
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Judging a Book by Its Cover
Angus Phillips and Claire Squires of the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies have recently published chapters in a new book.Judging a Book by Its Cover: Fans, Publishers, Designers, and the Marketing of Fiction (Ashgate), edited by Nicole Matthews and Nickianne Moody, includes the articles 'How Books are Positioned in the Market: Reading the Cover' by Phillips, and 'Book Marketing and the Booker Prize' by Squires, alongside other chapters on Penguin Books, the interactions between film and books, and the use of covers in Internet bookstores.
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Slovenian Book Fair, Ljubljana
Angus Phillips, Director of the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies, spoke at the Slovenian Book Fair in Ljubljana on 28 November 2007. He gave a lecture entitled, ‘Does the Book have a Future?’ He also gave a lecture on journals publishing at the University of Ljubljana.
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BBC Radio 4 Open Book
Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies lecturer Claire Squires featured on this week's BBC Radio 4 Open Book programme.Claire discussed 'the dark arts of marketing' with presenter Mariella Frostrup and critic John Sutherland, which her new book Marketing Literature: The Making of Contemporary Writing in Britain analyses in detail.
The discussion is available from the BBC's website on Listen Again, approximately 13 minutes into the programme.
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Frankfurt Book Fair visit 2007
Students from the MA Publishing courses at Oxford Brookes University visited the Frankfurt Book Fair in October 2007. At the Fair they had meetings with a range of publishers large and small, including Random House, Orion, Usborne, A&C Black, Pearson Education, Infinite Ideas, Playbac, New Internationalist and Guardian Books. They also visited the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz.
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Marketing Literature published
Claire Squires, Senior Lecturer in the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies, has published a new book.Marketing Literature: The Making of Contemporary Writing in Britain is a study of the publishing of contemporary writing in Britain. It analyses the changing social, economic and cultural environment of the publishing industry in the 1990s-2000s, and investigates its impact on genre, format, packaging, authorship and reading. It includes case studies of Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting, Louis de Bernières's Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things and David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, and significantly extends our understanding of the circulation of literary fiction in a period of notable change.
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Les professions du livre
Les professions du livre, edited by Michel Bruillon and Sylvie Ducas of OICPS partner at Paris-X (St Cloud), contains a wealth of information on working in publishing in France and Europe, and includes information on ECMAP and the European Master in Publishing.Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 18 Jan 2007 around 10am
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Hillebrecht article promotes European Master in Publishing
In Medienwirtschaft (Issue 4/2006), a major magazine serving the publishing and media sector in Germany, Steffen Hillebrecht of HTKW Leipzig has written about the European Master in Publishing. The full article is available here.
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Frankfurt Book Fair
Students and staff from the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies recently returned from the Frankfurt Book Fair.Thirty-two postgraduate students and three members of staff attended Frankfurt Buchmesse 2006, which is the biggest book fair in the world. Students met with a variety of publishing companies, including Berg, Nelson Thornes, Infinite Ideas, Attwooll Associates, Usborne Publishing (pictured, with Elizabeth Wright of Usborne) and Pearson Education. They also had the opportunity to discuss work experience and career opportunities, and to discover more about global trends in the publishing business.
During the trip to Germany, students and staff also went back in publishing time to visit Mainz, home to the fifteenth-century printing press and its inventor Gutenberg.
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