(FOR THE SOCIETY OF YOUNG PUBLISHERS AT THE LONDON BOOK FAIR, TUESDAY APRIL 14TH, 2015) INTRODUCTION I’m Alastair Horne, and I work for Cambridge University Press. I started out at Cambridge ten years ago as a project developer, testing educational software for primary schools; then spent three years as a project manager, working with internal…
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How to get ahead in publishing
I was asked to give a short talk at the 2013 London Book Fair on a panel session organised by the Society of Young Publishers. Here are my notes from the talk; you can also download them in PDF format at the end. #1 YOUR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IS FAR TOO IMPORTANT TO BE ENTRUSTED TO…
Beyond the Book: the Society of Young Publishers conference 2012
The 2012 Society of Young Publishers conference once again matched more expensive events, with an excellent range of speakers at the cutting edge of the industry. The 2012 Society of Young Publishers conference once again offered a range and quality of speakers to rival publishing events that cost ten times as much to attend. In…
The pressfuturist manifesto 