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job - News
Last updated 10.07.08
Jobs to go at Borders and Blackwell
Borders and Blackwell are looking to make redundancies following internal reviews at both businesses.It is understood that three...
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Redundancies at Walker
Walker Books m.d. Helen McAleer has confirmed that the publisher is engaged in a process of...
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Lonely Planet hits back at poor pay claims
Lonely Planet has hit back at claims that it does not pay enough for its authors to visit...
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job - In Depth
Last updated 23.09.08
Buying into books
Predicting the next bestseller is just one part of a book buyer's job. Hannah Davies speaks to Borders' Rob Hughes about analysing data, spotting trends and schmoozing with publishers Rob Hughes' career path to Borders' non-fiction...
Special agent
Honest, yet Machiavellian. Those are the paradoxical qualities a literary agent needs to succeed, says the man who handles the James Bond titles—United Agents' Simon Trewin. He talks to Hannah Davies Simon Trewin, joint head...
Schemes driving diversity
The Bookseller’s roundtable on cultural diversity in the book trade, published last week, revealed that there are several diversity initiatives currently in place to help students and graduates from ethnic minority backgrounds break...
job - Blogs
Last updated 15.08.08
SYP Insider
The invisible link
This month’s insider is a publicist who reveals that becoming a master of the trade is about embracing the contradictions of the job.
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JOHN MAKINSON
Warm waters
Why are publishers so poor at recruiting from outside the industry? They should be prepared to...
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Getting on
This month's insider is a commissioning editor, who reveals how budding editors can overcome...
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