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What use is a publisher?
In last night’s wide-ranging MA Publishing Masterclass, founder of Strathmore Publishing Nicholas Jones posed a corker of a query: what use is a publisher? Nicholas pointed out that the idea of...
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Keeping the faith: building author brands
Nick Robinson, Sales Director of Vintage Books had a tough act to follow for his recent Publishing Masterclass at Kingston University. Just an hour before, students had been entertained by Simon Winder...
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Love and money: it’s all about the author for SAGE
There was a lot of love in the room for Ziyad Marar, Deputy Managing Director and Global Publishing Director of SAGE Publications, when he recently presented his Kingston University Publishing...
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Jon Reed of Publishing Talk, Masterclass blogged and tweeted LIVE this Monday.
This Monday 7th November we will be blogging and tweeting the latest Kingston University Publishing Masterclass live, here on the site and on our twitter feed (@kingstonjourno), using the hashtag...
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Jon Reed Live Masterclass
Welcome to Kingston Publishing’s live blog of Jon Reed’s Masterclass, ‘Social Media Marketing for Publishers’. We will be posting every 5 minutes from 18:00pm (UK Time) onwards, so make sure you...
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So you want to be a publisher? A Masterclass with Bobby Nayyar
Working for big companies can be good. You have bigger budgets for marketing cool authors and a regular pay cheque. They are efficient. But they can also be machines. Bobby Nayyar, former graduate...
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Children’s publishing – they don’t read any more, do they?
This week’s MA Publishing Masterclass was delivered by the Marketing and Publicity director for Oxford University Press children’s books, Elaine McQuade. Elaine joins us for the second time, having...
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Working with Jordan – the world of celebrity autobiography
This week’s MA Publishing Masterclass was delivered by John Blake, publisher of bestsellers such as Being Jordan and The Guv’nor. Guest blogger Kelly Cracknell reviews the talk, and Blake’s insights...
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Foreign language publishing: the ‘last bastion’ of rights
Diane Spivey, Rights and Contracts Director at Little, Brown Book Group, delivered the latest Kingston Publishing Masterclass, sharing fascinating insights into the mechanics and motions behind the...
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“It’s timing, timing and timing,” says celebrity publisher John Blake
Managing Director of John Blake Publishing and former journalist John Blake delivererd a lively Masterclass last semester at Kingston University. In the newest Kingston Publishing video, John talks...
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Literary agents: heroes no more?
Agents: heroes no more? was the title of John Saddler’s recent Masterclass at Kingston University. I couldn’t say it any better. Cool and humorous, Saddler came to Kingston, in his own words, to...
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Jon Reed on social media: publishing’s natural born sharer
From the show-of-hands in response to Kingston University Masterclass speaker Jon Reed’s opening question, it was clear from the start of his recent social media lecture that students were in for a...
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Creative partnerships, perfect packaging and brand extensions help children’s...
By Camilla Schroeder, MA Publishing student at Kingston University. As a children’s literature enthusiast, I was really looking forward to Elaine McQuade’s 2012 Masterclass at Kingston University....
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Celebrity publishing as strong as ever: examining the people behind the books...
By Stephen Haskins, Kingston University MA Publishing student I work in a bookshop, and every day when I arrive at work I walk past a wall of the latest hardback books. At this time of the year I’m...
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Matching company to job satisfaction: how to find your perfect organisational...
Before Jill Coleman came to deliver a Publishing Masterclass at Kingston University, I had never heard of her, or Little Tiger Press. But I had certainly heard of Bloomsbury, where she worked as...
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2013 Masterclass season announced
We’re pleased to announce our forthcoming season of Publishing Masterclass lectures, designed to share some of the most critical debates within today’s publishing industry. The lectures form part of...
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Whither publishing, when you can buy ten books for the price of a pint?
The first Kingston University Publishing Masterclass of the 2014/15 season welcomed David Roche, Chairman of The London Book Fair, former Group Sales and Trade Marketing Director at HarperCollins and...
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Research into Humanities and Social Sciences ‘can’t make an iPhone’ – but it...
MA Publishing student Naomi Peel discusses a Masterclass matter that lies close to her heart. In our second Masterclass of the season Ziyad Marar, Executive Vice President and Global Publishing...
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How are you reading? The challenge of reaching the reader in a digital society
Have you ever stopped to think about how you read? MA Publishing student Scarlett Hermon got a surprising answer when she followed up Masterclass speaker Julia Kingsford’s discussion about how people...
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Publishers as DJs, Chefs or Producers?
What a publisher is, and does, is up for grabs as long as they are bold. Publishing MA student Marie Claire Grima on Canongate’s Jamie Byng, and the publisher as storytelling animal… You could...
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