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Your Guide to Reading, Writing, and Publishing Young Adult Literature, cool interactive info!

YA Highway: publishing road map

Excellent article on Book History and the Reading Experience Database.

Secret Reading Lives, Revealed - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education Researchers in an emerging field look for "teardrops on the page" and other evidence of how readers have used books across history.

Make sure you are registered for the SHARP listserv - you don't have to be a member to join for email updates on conferences, calls for papers and other info!

Sharp-L ike its parent organization, the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing, SHARP-L is devoted to forging connections among scholars in all disciplines who are working on the history of the printed word in any place or period. Available to anyone with access to the Internet thro...

Who is going to buy Pippa Middleton's new Party Book? I'll fess up to pre-ordering it on Amazon as a gift for a friend! I have to help her earn out that 400,000 advance she received!

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Johnny Depp to launch publishing imprint after 18 literary films Johnny Depp will launch a publishing imprint with Harper, a division of HarperCollins, called Infinitum Nihil. That's the same as his production company, which has had a hand in the films "The Rum Diary" (adapted from the novel by Hunter S. Thompson), "Hugo" (adapted from the children's book by Bria...

You can sponsor a page of Shakespeare's first folio digitization with a £20 donation - kind of cool!

Goodreads Voice: Sprint for Shakespeare Discover and share books you love on Goodreads, the world's largest site for readers and book recommendations!

Another Intern post for those interested in entering publishing once your MA is over: Papadakis Publishing

Papadakis is offering an internship starting from 1st October 2012 for a minimum time of two months. This valuable introduction to the world of publishing involves undertaking a varied and diverse work load on a number of different projects, from editorial, to design, sales and marketing.

Email contact: [email protected]

Editorial work duties range from assisting with the initial stages of research of a project and helping to oversee its smooth running until completion. In addition to research, you will also be responsible for liaising with authors and contributors, fact-checking and general administration. Design work duties range from assisting with the initial stages of collecting, managing and organising large amounts of visual material, such as scanning, touching up and picture research. You will be working with page layouts and will be liaising with the design director. The internship also involves preparing and sending out sales material to booksellers and sales reps and updating title information. You will also be helping to prepare for upcoming book fairs.

Candidates need to be highly organised, computer literate and able to handle a busy and varied workload.

If you would like to submit your application, please send your cover letter and CV to Alexandra Papadakis at [email protected], detailing your studies and education, previous experience (if any) and availability.

Please note due to the high number of applications received we are unable to reply to all applicants individually.

http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/headlines/9922867.Revamped_press_museum_ready_to_roll/

Revamped press museum ready to roll FORMER assistant printer to Oxford University Richard Russell joined 60 guests at the opening of the revamped OUP museum.

If any of you are in Oxford already and need to top your cash -

Temporary Research Assistant (Holiday cover) – Oxford - Starting Monday 17 September for 2 weeks, £9ph

SPA Future Thinking is a new market research company, offering thought leadership across a wide range of sectors and specialisms, formed from the merger of a number of specialist agencies over the past 2 years. The combined entity is now one of the largest independent market research companies with offices in the UK, France and Italy.

Based on Oxford Business Park, we work for a wide range of well-known blue-chip clients including Unilever, Mars, Heinz and Reckitt Benckiser, on a huge variety of consumer insight projects.

The Role:
The job of Research Assistant involves supporting the implementation and delivery of these projects, working with data, to produce debrief report presentations, generating and checking Powerpoint charts, and providing general admin support to members of the research team.


Candidate requirements:
· Flexible, well-organised, with good project management skills, ability to plan and manage timelines / workloads
· Proven experience handling research data would be useful – must be comfortable with reading data tables
· Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office, especially PowerPoint and Excel

To apply: Send CV via email to [email protected]
Application deadline: Thursday 13 September 5pm

Only 19 days until the current MA in Book History & Publishing Culture students hand in their dissertations! In addition to this, it's also the first dissertations to come out of this MA program - we're all eager to see the results!

http://publishing.brookes.ac.uk/news/item/the_study_of_paper/

News Item | The study of paper The study of paper

If you're starting the course this year and want to get into publishing at the end of it I seriously suggest getting some work experience. Check out this link for upcoming opportunities: http://publishing.brookes.ac.uk/opportunities/

Publishing | Work Experience in Publishing Jobs in Publishing - Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies