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Inside Book Publishing (Paperback)
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Short Description for Inside Book PublishingAddresses issues such as globalization of publishing and the impact of the internet. This edition covers: how the industry has evolved; publishing functions - editorial, design and production, marketing, sales and distribution, and rights; the role of the author; copyright and contracts; and the sales channels for books in the UK.
Full description- Publisher: ROUTLEDGE
- Published: 13 June 2008
- Format: Paperback 320 pages
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- Categories: Dance & Other Performing Arts | Writing & Editing Guides | Media Studies | Publishing Industry | Information Technology Industries
- ISBN 13: 9780415441575 ISBN 10: 0415441579
- Sales rank: 81,234
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Thorough and comprehensive
I must declare my interest - I was part of the (UK) Society of Young Publishers committee which started this ball rolling back in 1979. We saw a need for an introduction to the industry; we planned a mere booklet summarising it as it then was, but Giles Clark - also on the committee - took up the opportunity to make it something vastly more comprehensive and therefore useful. No longer involved in subsequent editions (except as a specialist contributor for a one-page panel in in this last edition), I have watched the project develop into an amazingly comprehensive work which is now the definitive textbook for any publishing course, and an invaluable source of ideas, information and inspiration for those about to join or in the early years in the industry. Some of the third edition was rather dense reading, I would agree, but this fourth has not only brought the coverage of the industry right up to date with e-books, POD, etc., but a comprehensive rewrite and redesign has made it approachable and entertaining as well as highly informative. No one embarking on a career in publishing should fail to read it - and even those with a few years' experience will find useful things in it.
To those wondering how it relates to another book for would-be entrants to the industry, Alison Baverstock et al.'s How To Get a Job in Publishing, I would say that they are quite different things - get both. by Nicholas W N Jones
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