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Catching the Wave
Podcast Episode: 37
Confessions of a Digital Opportunist
David Attwool
An irreverent romp through 40 years of analogue and (from 1984) digital publishing – which should prompt some career ideas or at least cautionary tales. Based on his current business, David will also suggest how a growing number of 21st-century publishing businesses and careers will look radically different from the current ‘norm’.
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Duration: 00:42:25
Posted on 31 Mar 2011 around 10am
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Tales from Publishing - Michael Rodgers
Podcast Episode: 36
Persuasion and Cooperation
Michael Rodgers introduced by Sheila Lambie
This talk was given as part of the New Product Development module on the Masters courses in Publishing
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Duration: 00:59:13
Posted on 15 Mar 2011 around 11am
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Going Digital Gracefully
Podcast Episode: 35
Alison Jones
What has to change for traditional publishers as they migrate to digital publishing? What stays the same? And can they make the transition without losing themselves in the process?
Alison Jones is Director of Digital Development Palgrave Macmillan
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Duration: 00:34:42
Posted on 04 Mar 2011 around 1pm
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Richard Hart – Hart Publishing
Podcast Episode: 34
Richard Hart gained a law degree from Cambridge University, then briefly worked as a university lecturer in law before getting his first job in publishing with Professional Books. In 1986 he was appointed Law Editor at OUP, and in 1996 left to launch his own publishing company, Hart Publishing – where he is currently Managing Director.
In this talk, Richard Hart depicts the role of independent academic publishers within the publishing industry and speaks about how smaller academic publishers can indeed compete with large corporations and sometimes even do a better job than big businesses.
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Duration: 00:58:43
Posted on 22 Feb 2011 around 1pm
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The ActiveTeach Product: from strategy to creation
Podcast Episode: 33
Mark Bloch (Head of Digital Publishing for Secondary Education, Pearson)
ActiveTeach was a landmark product for Pearson. The launch of ActiveTeach changed the entire market dynamic, making an equivalent digital component essential for any new course.
This product is demonstrated during the talk, which covers the development of the idea and the execution of the product creation.
Further information about ActiveTeach can be found on the Pearson web site
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Duration: 00:30:10
Posted on 10 Feb 2011 around 10am
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Why Print on Demand is (or should be) part of every publisher’s strategy
Podcast Episode: 32
Suzanne Wilson-Higgins
Suzanne Wilson-Higgins has over 20 years experience in publishing, bookselling, print-on-demand and ebooks. In January 2011 she was appointed Sales & Marketing Director at Lion-Hudson plc a publisher of Christian books and general books based on a Christian ethos for adults and children. As Commercial Director at Lightning Source UK Ltd, she launched print on-demand and e-book services to the UK market in 2000 and over 9.5 years developed the business from start-up to a broad customer base across Europe. Previously she served 5 years on the board of bookseller and library supplier BH Blackwell Ltd with responsibility for electronic service development, marketing and publisher relations. And prior to that served 5 years with Reed-Elsevier plc subsidiaries commissioning business books, auditing digital rights, and championing digital publishing. Suzanne has also undertaken projects for leading internet retailer The Book Depository and an electronic technology service provider the Ninestars group based in India.
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Duration: 00:37.59
Posted on 08 Feb 2011 around 11am
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Toby Mundy - Independent trade publishing in the UK
Podcast Episode: 31
Toby Mundy is a leading figure in the publishing industry. After training as a graduate recruit at HarperCollins, where he was editorial assistant to Stuart Proffitt, and later took on responsibility for Fontana Press, he joined Weidenfeld & Nicolson as editorial director in 1998. In 2000 he became managing director and publisher of newly formed Atlantic Books, whose bestsellers include the Booker winning The White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga, and recent titles such as The Slap byChristos Tsiolkas.
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Duration: 00:40:27
Posted on 09 Dec 2010 around 10pm
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John Thompson talking about his new book on trade publishing, ‘Merchants of Culture’
Podcast Episode: 30
John Thompson is Professor of Sociology at Cambridge University and Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. Recent publications include Books in the Digital Age (2005) andMerchants of Culture (2010). He was awarded the European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and the Social Sciences in 2001 for his work on political scandal.
In his book Merchants of Culture he provides a fascinating account of the high-risk culture in consumer publishing on both sides of the Atlantic. Revealed is the world of agents and scouts, of auctions and deals, often with large sums of money paid out to authors, as publishers gamble in the hope of signing the next Harry Potter or Dan Brown.
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Duration: 01:06:01
Posted on 13 Nov 2010 around 1am
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Barbara Trapido
Podcast Episode: 29
Oxford based novelist Barbara Trapido talks about her experiences as an author
Barbara Trapido is an internationally successful author, renowned for her dark satirical comedies. She has written a number of novels, including Brother of the More Famous Jack (1982), which won the Whitbread Special Prize for Fiction,Temples of Delight (1990), shortlisted for the Sunday Express Book of the Year Award, Juggling (1994), and Frankie & Stankie (2003). In its mix of people from different spheres, Sex and Stravinsky, published by Bloomsbury in May 2010, throws up the complexity, cruelty and richness of the global world while, as a sequence of personal stories, it comes together like a dance; a masquerade in which things are not always what they seem.
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Duration: 00:53:53
Posted on 06 Nov 2010 around 8pm
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London Book Fair Seminar - The Future of E-books in a Digital Era
Podcast Episode: 28
A seminar at the London Book fair organised by the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies
Beverley Tarquini, Senior Lecturer in Publishing, Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies, was the chair for this seminar. The 3 speakers were:
- Jonathan Ferman, Business Development Manager, Creative Solutions Adobe Systems Europe Ltd
- Robin Harvie, Editorial director, The Friday Project at Harper Collins
- Alison Jones, Director of Digital Development, Palgrave Macmillan Publishers
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Duration: 01:01:02
Posted on 29 Apr 2010 around 11am
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Michael Bhaskar - Nobody Knows Anything
Podcast Episode: 27
especially publishers
Michael Bhaskar is the current Digital Publishing Manager at Profile Books, where he is developing their ebook programme. Previously at Pan Macmillan from 2007 to 2010, he developed the digital programme from scratch. He will be talking about the challenges for big and small companies in the digital world, and how, when it comes to ebooks, publishers are misinformed. Michael also writes for BookBrunch.
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Duration: 00:57:22
Posted on 30 Mar 2010 around 4pm
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The Societal Tsunami: Social Media & Social Networking in Publishing
Podcast Episode: 26
An OPUS Event
From the micro-blogging wonder of Twitter, to the media sharing experience of Flickr, through to the omnipotent social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace; it is a veritable multi-media minefield out there!
To shine a light on this brave new world, Sam Missingham, Director, Lounge Marketing; Head of Audience Development for The Bookseller Magazine and http://www.thebookseller.com, and Davina Quarterman, List Marketing Manager, Life Science Journals, Wiley-Blackwell will be talking to us about how publishers can take advantage of social media platforms to develop their titles and to connect with their audience.
Speakers
Sam Missingham — Director, Lounge Marketing; Head of Audience Development for The Bookseller Magazine and http://www.thebookseller.com (See presentation -PDF)
Davina Quarterman — List Marketing Manager, Life Science Journals (See presentation -PDF)
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Duration: 01:01:06
Posted on 26 Mar 2010 around 1pm
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Emma Barnes - How to get ahead with digital publishing
Podcast Episode: 25
A Lunchtime digital publishing seminar
Emma Barnes is Co-founder and Managing Director of Snowbooks, an independent publisher, and is Director of OnixCentral, a xml-based software supplier to the publishing industry.
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Duration: 00:39:32
Posted on 24 Mar 2010 around 10am
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Crowd-sourcing and Digital Collections - Dr Stuart Lee
Podcast Episode: 22
Stuart Lee is Reader in E-learning and Digital Libraries and Project Director of the First World War Poetry Digital Archive digitisation project and Great War Archive Initiative
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Duration: 00:28:58
Posted on 25 Feb 2010 around 10am
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Suzanne Wilson-Higgins - Publishing on Demand
Podcast Episode: 21
Before joining Lightning Source UK in July 2000, Suzanne worked for 5 years as a company director with B.H.Blackwell Limited, the book retailer, international library supplier and subscription services company. While at Blackwell’s she was the director responsible for marketing communications, electronic product development and publisher relations.
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Duration: 00:43:51
Posted on 19 Feb 2010 around 3pm
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Christopher Davis - The rise and fall of Dorling Kindersley
Podcast Episode: 19
Christopher Davis is uniquely positioned to tell the story of DK's rise and fall. He joined the company at its foundation and in due course became Group Publisher. The narrative he provides is a dual one, encompassing the visionary genius of Peter Kindersley and the publishing revolution he fomented, and charting the remarkable, sometimes precarious, frequently hilarious, roller-coaster ride as the company grew from a handful of people in a studio in South London to a substantial global business.
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Duration: 00:46:32
Posted on 21 Dec 2009 around 1pm
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