The latest BIC Breakfast, sponsored by Penguin Random House (PRH) and held at the Poetry Café in London yesterday, looked at changing Thema codes to boost discoverability of inclusive and diverse books. Andrew Isabirye, a Data Scientist at PRH, revealed the work that the company has been doing to address this issue by investigating how the Thema codes could…
In the UK we are becoming increasingly concerned about climate change and more and more of us are thinking about how we might take some responsibility for making our world greener. I attended the BIC (Book Industry Communication) Breakfast to hear about what’s happening in the publishing industry.Carnstone’s Book Chain Project speakers outlined how they’ve…
“I have a deep and enduring relationship with all things administrative” In recent years, the selling of rights has changed dramatically. The growing number of available book formats and delivery options, plus the expansion of global market opportunities, have all facilitated an increase in the value of rights income. The sale of physical books and…
We are delighted to announce that we have recently been awarded with a BIC Product Data Excellence Award. This is a book publishing industry award that denotes how well we submit information about our books to the book trade. Publishers are scored both on how complete their data is and the timeliness of its delivery…
The absolutely stunning Stationers’ Hall was the setting for the New Trends in Publishing Seminar 2016, hosted by BIC and sponsored by Nielsen Book and Ricoh. Being entirely new to the publishing industry, I felt slightly nervous as I walked into the opulent old rooms of the hall, which were filled with beautiful furniture, lavish…
We were fortunate enough to attend a really interesting BIC event on New Trends in Publishing at Stationer’s Hall – great talks from Nielsen, DAISY, Ingrams, Ingenta, and Harbottle & Lewis on aspects covering consumer rights (with Brexit looming) to augmented reality, to the critical importance of accuracy when supplying metadata. We all know consumer…
As promised last week, we’ll focus this time on the impact that New Trends in Publishing (#bicnewtrends @BIC1UK) can have on production departments and suppliers such as printers. Mike Levaggi is Group Production Director at HarperCollins and he came to the BIC Seminar to tell us a bit more about the digital print revolution. Publishing is changing, I…
I was very pleased to attend the BIC Seminar about New Trends in Publishing last Wednesday (#bicnewtrends @BIC1UK). We were invited in the very impressive Stationers’ Hall to hear all about the latest trends in publishing and what we can expect for the future. Chris McCrudden (Head of Technology and New Media at Midas PR) and Jane Tappuni (Executive…
Yesterday I was lucky enough to be able to attend the New Trends in Publishing Seminar, hosted by BIC and sponsored by Nielsen and Ricoh. I don’t start my Publishing course until the end of this month but since I’m now finally in London, home of publishing events, I thought I should get started early!…
In my role as Reprint Controller for Macmillan Education I work on all production aspects of reprints for backlist titles. This involves preparing print specifications and sourcing cost estimates from suppliers. I was immediately excited about the prospect of ‘An Introduction to Production’ – the course outline comprehensively covered many aspects of Production I wished…