James Quinney, Content Architect, andSean Pankhurst, Senior Digital Content Controller, Oxford University Press explain their roles within the digital content delivery team at OUP and talk about practicalities of digital workflow and digital is

Publishing Solutions from Ixxus

Mar 2nd, 2018 45m 13s

Carl has been in publishing since1995 and has worked for PearsonEducation, Macmillan Education andOxford University Press. At Ixxus,Carl’s focus is upon helping clientslook at business vision, goals andstrategies around their contentand tooling

Advice to Publishing Students

Mar 2nd, 2018 35m 13s

Mark Allin, was CEO of Wiley from 2015 to 2017. He was the guest speaker during the Working in Publishing Day.

Marc Bloch and Sze-Kie Ho (Pearson Education)

Mar 2nd, 2018 44m 57s

Marc Bloch, Head of Digital Learning Services, Pearson Educationand Sze-Kie Ho, Product Manager at Pearson talk about creating digital products for the educational market.

Needles and haystacks: Discoverability and innovation in academic publishing

Mar 23rd, 2017 1h 44m

Gathering meaningful metadata, granularity, analytics, and how usage statistics inform commercial decisions in publishing.

How to use social media, mainly Twitter to promote a book.

Mar 10th, 2017 36m 54s

Camille Mari introduces the audience to some very useful techniques to make better use of Twitter to market ourselves, our books or our company.

Transforming Digital Science Publishing at Pearson Education

Mar 6th, 2017 53m 59s

Meeting the challenge of publishing blended products and services for GCSE Science. Changing how we work and shifting to continuous delivery of content to meet customer needs.

Digital developments and how they impact storytelling

Nov 11th, 2016 31m 8s

Guy talks about some ofthe latest digital developments and how they impact storytelling and the publishing industry.

Sally Bayley in Conversation with Beverley Tarquini

Oct 29th, 2016 42m 11s

Sally Bayley is a Lecturer in English at Balliol College, Oxford and the authorof the crowd-funded bookThe Private Life of the Diary,published by Unbound.Sally talks to Beverley Tarquini about both this new book and also her other writing proj

Me Books

Oct 26th, 2015 40m 16s

Made in Memake innovative and inspirational apps, games, websites, books and videos. Eric will talk about his career in book publishing, brand development, TV, gaming and the world of children’s entertainment. He will demonstrateMe Books: the u

Becoming the New Publisher

Oct 22nd, 2014 48m 18s

Michael considers what publishers have always done and asks is this the same today, using case studies from the industry. He examines key trends that we should pay attention to amidst all the noise, in an attempt to predict the future.

Joanna Prior, MD Penguin General books

Mar 6th, 2014 24m 1s

At the End of the 'Working in Publishing' day at the OICPS, Jo Prior gave a fascinating talk on the future of publishing as seen from Penquin Books.

eBooks in schools - RM Books

Feb 21st, 2014 46m 32s

Dale Peters is Head of Corporate Development(RM Education) and presents RM Books a system for delivering eBooks into schools.

The challenge of discoverability in digital publishing

Feb 14th, 2014 42m 9s

David talks about gathering meaningful metadata, granularity, analytics, and how usage statistics inform commercial decisions in publishing.

Digital publishing at Pearson Education

Feb 14th, 2014

The publisher is responsible for a product from concept to delivery:Concept to high quality product or serviceCreation in a timely way to budgetProviding something that people want to buyEnsuring we make a profit!… so what’s different in

Career Options in Book Production

Feb 14th, 2014 54m 30s

‘Have you considered what a career in production might look like in the digital age? The size, number of opportunities and ex-perience gained in new technologies for such a role are worth considering in the age of electronic content, where atte

Building A Career in Academic Publishing

Feb 14th, 2014 1h 1m

‘Being published’ is traditionally a seal of the quality and authenticity of research, and has been since the 17th century. If you thought academic publishing was stuffy, think again: things are changing rapidly; and people are now sharing know

Getting Into Publishing

Feb 14th, 2014 1h

Publishing is well known as a competitive industry. And Atwood Tate is one of the most recognisable names in Publishing Recruit-ment. With years of experience matching the right people with the right jobs, Claire Louise and Kellie are here to s

Pathways Through Publishing

Feb 14th, 2014 51m 19s

You can be guaranteed that a life in publishing will bring with it some rather exciting and interesting stories. In this seminar, two publishers (one turned publishing consultant) will share their own stories of how they got their breaks in the

Managing Change In Publishing

Feb 14th, 2014 1h 3m

Change is inevitable. And for Osprey, change was embraced to ensure future success. Listen to Osprey’s CEO, Rebecca Smart, weave an engaging and honest story of how the company’s growth was as much a process of discovery as it was a strategic d

Gamification of Publishing at the London Book Fair

Apr 22nd, 2013 1h 4m

With the growth in the use of tablets to consume media, including books, what is happening to the boundaries between books and games? There are now books of games, and games of books – what, for example, do we call an interactive children’s pro

Key Skills in Publishing - Richard Charkin

Mar 21st, 2013 36m 21s

Richard Charkin is theExecutive Director of Bloomsbury Publishing and gave this talk as the final session for the Working in Publishing event in the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies.The talk is introduced by Angus Phillips, h

The Publishing Process at Wiley

Feb 15th, 2013 45m 39s

Not every idea for a book will be developed into a manuscript. Sarah explained that all new proposals must be reviewed internally and externally and a strong business case put forward before a contract is signed and the content written. This me

Shaping a Discipline: the Experience of Book History

Dec 12th, 2012

This talk was given as part of the conference:Progressing Book History and Publishing Studies as Disciplinesa British Academy Funded Event on Wednesday October 24th2012The purpose of this event was to discuss and agree a set of objectives th

What’s in a Name?

Nov 30th, 2012

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