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Podcast Episode: 53
Publishers, Product Managers and Digital Collections
Matt Kibble
How should the role of a Digital Publisher/Product Manager be defined and what does this involve? Matt Kibble's talk will cover a number of different roles (technical, business, editorial, marketing) and address the fact that the job is defined in different ways at every company. Matt will illustrate these points with a range of products from the major online publishers and explain what is involved in bringing these products to market. This is a not-to-be-missed opportunity to hear about structure and responsibilities of digital roles from someone working in a publishing company that is clearly integrating digital at the heart of its corporate development strategy.
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Posted on 30 Nov 2012 around 11am
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Royal story
Podcast Episode: 52
BBC Radio Oxford Interviews a Publishing Lecturer
Leander Reeves, Senior Lecturer in Publishing, was interviewed on BBC Radio Oxford on Friday 14 September 2012 about the publication in France of the topless photos of the Duchess of Cambridge. The magazine Closer was the subject of legal action regarding the pictures of Kate Middleton.
Thank you very much to BBC Radio Oxford for allowing us to use the recording of this interview.
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Posted on 20 Sep 2012 around 12pm
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Jane Potter and Angus Phillips interviewed on BBC
Podcast Episode: 51
World Book Day, 1 March 2012
For World Book Day, 1 March 2012, the lunchtime show on BBC Radio Oxford looked at key developments in the story of the book. These included the development of printing, the paperback revolution of the 1930s, and the present growth in the popularity of ebooks. Both Jane Potter and Angus Phillips from the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies were interviewed for the programme by Jo Thoenes.
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Duration: 00:14.46
Posted on 15 Mar 2012 around 1pm
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Kay Peddle - The book is dead, long live the book
Podcast Episode: 50
Publishing, writing and reading in the digital era.
(Editor at The Bodley Head, a non-fiction imprint at The Random House Group)
Self-publishing, eBooks, Amazon, piracy - the threats to trade publishing are numerous but the opportunities are too. Publishers need to be creative and agile in order to adapt to the rapidly changing retail and consumer environments we currently face. Thinking about content creatively and taking risks on new formats and retail channels is vital. Kay will talk briefly about what Random House is doing in this area and will also touch on how other trade publishers are evolving from the traditional book publishing model into the multi-platform 'content' model.
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Duration: 00:32:01
Posted on 15 Mar 2012 around 12pm
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Chris Book, CEO Bardowl
Podcast Episode: 49
New Model Audiobooks or Lessons learned in starting a digital publishing business
Chris is a technologist first and foremost. Chris studied on the Modular Course at Brookes between 1993 and 1996, his main subjects were Computing, Intelligent Systems and Bodrum Kebabs. The inspiration for Bardowl came from years of listening to audiobooks and podcasts, knowing they could be delivered better. Chris has only ever worked in mobile, starting his career at Orange in 1997 and has worked at the most exciting mobile companies since, pioneering the mobile internet and apps ecosystems. Chris cannot quite believe his luck that his two passions of Books and Mobile have intersected as industries and enabled him to start Bardowl. Chris also organises conferences and barcamps such as The Power of One, The Big M, openMIC and BathCamp. Chris lives in Bath, is married with 2 children, has a 2nd degree black belt in Tae Kwon-Do and supports Tottenham Hotspur. Chris tweets far too much at @bookmeister.
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Duration: 00:38:26
Posted on 15 Mar 2012 around 10am
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Excel Is Not Enough
Podcast Episode: 48
Skills for the Modern Publisher
Emma Barnes, Snowbooks
The age of the manager is coming to a close. Doing, not directing, is the secret to making a difference in organisations - particularly those in a mature industry coming under increasing fire from newcomers and disruptive technologies. You, personally, need to be able to not only use but invent leading-edge technological solutions. Emma Barnes, co-founder and MD of innovative indie publisher Snowbooks, will share some real-world examples of the sorts of problems facing the modern publisher, and how technological competence can overcome them.
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Duration: 00:44:20
Posted on 02 Mar 2012 around 12pm
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Print on-demand and ebook digital workflows
Podcast Episode: 47
Suzanne Wilson-Higgins
Publishing On-demand: just in time , not just in case
- Print on-Demand
- eBooks
- Print on-Demand and eBooks: Publishing On-Demand
One workflow, multiple outputs
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Duration: 01:01:10
Posted on 02 Mar 2012 around 11am
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Non-Profit Publishing at Oxfam
Podcast Episode: 46
Robert Cornford (Communications Manager)
How Non-Profit Publishing works at Oxfam.
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Duration: 01:13:38
Posted on 24 Feb 2012 around 2pm
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Digital publishing at Pearson Education - Liz Marchant
Podcast Episode: 45
Liz Marchant linforms us about some of the digital projects she has been involved in at Pearson Education. The talk will focuses primarily on digital delivery of science and ICT related products for secondary schools.
Dr Liz Marchant is Head of Publishing: Science and ICT (Pearson)
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Duration: 00:50:06
Posted on 09 Feb 2012 around 12pm
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OPUS: Reaching Tablets & eReaders - Lindsay Mooney of Kobo
Podcast Episode: 44
How Kobo can work with publishers in the UK to distribute ebooks both here in the UK and worldwide
Lindsay Mooney of Kobo talks 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.
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Duration: 00:21.31
Posted on 28 Nov 2011 around 10am
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OPUS: Reaching Tablets & eReaders - Linda Bennett of Gold Leaf
Podcast Episode: 43
An overview of the UK ebook market
Linda Bennett of Gold Leaf to provide an overview of the UK ebook market and emerging models including ebook borrowing
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Duration: 00:39:53
Posted on 28 Nov 2011 around 9am
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The challenges of independent publishing - John Elford
Podcast Episode: 42
John discusses what it means to be Green in publishing. He addresses global issues as well as how to apply green approaches to the business of publishing. He talks also about his experience of running a small ethically-minded publishing company for over 20 years and the lessons he has learned. The talk explores how things are changing in the broad current economic and environmental climate and how this might affect business in general in the future.
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Duration: 00:44:35
Posted on 18 Nov 2011 around 12pm
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My Life as an Editor - Juliette Mitchell
Podcast Episode: 41
Misconceptions, mistakes and rewards
Juliette will talks about her experiences of the commissioning process, seeing a manuscript through from start to finish and different approaches to editing. She will also touch on dealing with authors and agents and launching the book into the world.
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Duration: 01:02:58
Posted on 07 Nov 2011 around 10am
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Usability, user centred design and persuasion
Podcast Episode: 40
how to make sure people are engaged, complete tasks efficiently and effectively, and like what they see/do
Jon Dodd
Jon Dodd founded BunnyFoot in 1999, in the early days of usability, we were the first consultancy to offer professional accessibility services and the first to offer eyetracking as standard. They concentrate on user centred design and usability, and also offer specialist eyetracking services to ad agencies and for market research.
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Duration: 01:16:58
Posted on 28 Apr 2011 around 8am
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Tweet smell of success? London Book Fair seminar 12 April 2011
Podcast Episode: 39
How to use social media to best effect
Tom Hall, Joe Pickering, Davina Quarterman - introduced by Angus Phillips
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. Three experts explain the range of benefits from using social media.
This seminar is chaired by Angus Phillips, Director of the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies at Oxford Brookes University. He is the author of Inside Book Publishing (with Giles Clark), the editor of The Future of the Book in the Digital Age (with Bill Cope), and the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Logos.
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Duration: 00:59:30
Posted on 19 Apr 2011 around 9am
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Greening the Book: Digital or Print?
Podcast Episode: 38
London Book Fair Seminar
Adrian Bullock, Edward Milford and Mark Gough
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.
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Duration: 00:49:11
Posted on 18 Apr 2011 around 3pm
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