By Faber & Faber. Thursday 21 September 2017. Faber & Faber today pledged a commitment to inclusivity across the organisation by announcing a raft of initiatives. Inclusivity is a vital agenda in Faber’s plans for the future. These measures have been designed by a team from across the company, and will begin to address in…
By Emma House, Deputy CEO, The Publishers Association 25.08.2017 Over the past years we’ve seen much talk in the trade press about special sales, so we’re taking this opportunity to run through the benefits of special sales, both to the publisher and also to the author. What are special sales? Special sales is a different…
By Stephen Lotinga, Chief Executive of the Publishers Association The release of our annual figures last month showed that the publishing industry really is in great health. The sector enjoyed a record breaking year in 2016 with total sales increasing 7% to £4.8bn. I’m happy to report that every part of the publishing industry helped…
By Max Porter, Author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers It is hard not to feel conflicted about publishing. Feeling conflicted is healthy. In this current global crisis some thoughts of futility are inevitable. What’s the point of publishing books now? What does any of this mean, these novels, these picture books, these text…
By Brendan George, Publisher and Global Head of Philosophy, Palgrave Macmillan What makes someone want to be an academic publisher? Is it possible for academic publishing to be a vocation? Or is always ‘just a job’ or at best a career? There is no single answer to this question; different editors have different motivations, no doubt. But…
By Sarah Stanton, Shakespeare Publisher, Cambridge University Press When people ask me what my job is, and I reply that I publish the Shakespeare list at Cambridge University Press, they often look puzzled, ‘Don’t we know all the plays already?’ or ‘What is there new to say about Shakespeare?’ Sometimes people assume that the only…
Ben Denne, Editorial Director, Humanities, Media & Arts Books, Taylor & Francis I am currently the Editorial director for Humanities, Media and Arts Books at Taylor & Francis. I manage a team of commissioning editors who are signing books across all of the subjects within these fields. The breadth of the subjects and markets my…
By Niels Peter Thomas, Chief Book Strategist, Springer Nature Monday 23 January 2017. Commercial publishers handle the majority of all published academic books. And while we continue to work like companies, while we are part of the interplay between supply and demand, at the same time we view ourselves as part of the academic community,…
Theresa May’s Brexit speech: What it means for publishing By Stephen Lotinga, Chief Executive of the Publishers Association Over the past six months we have all become familiar with the Prime Minister’s mantra that ‘Brexit means Brexit’. While this phrase has been derided in some quarters, it has served its purpose, which was to sensibly…