MY BACK PAGES (MY BACK PAGES: An undeniably personal history of publishing 1972-2022)

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MY BACK PAGES (MY BACK PAGES: An undeniably personal history of publishing 1972-2022)

MY BACK PAGES (MY BACK PAGES: An undeniably personal history of publishing 1972-2022)

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On retirement they seize the opportunity to jump out from behind their authors and tell the public who the real star is. It will still be blended learning but as in any blend everything depends on the proportions of the ingredients. More from us on the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on international book publishing is here. The author is frequently best placed to think up plans for sales, for promotional ideas, and indeed for implementation in cahoots and with the support of the publisher.

My Back Pages (MY BACK PAGES: An undeniably personal history

Authors can meet resistance when they go off piste as Smith did with a personal tome about “the phenomenon of existence”.

In the 80s or 90s it was interesting that there was a significant growth in what might be described as literary fiction from the usual bunch of men and some women. A child of two goal-oriented parents, Charkin lived in a household where academics were emphasized from a young age. I’m deeply grateful for the 50 years I’ve enjoyed in a great global industry and look forward to a few more yet. There are pithy vignettes of some of the trade’s more memorable characters: Robert Maxwell, Paul Hamlyn and Jeffrey Archer, to name just a few. A few sentences here and there provide enough reminiscence to set the scene for the bigger picture - the smoking in the office, the extravagant partying at times, and how these things also changed.

MY BACK PAGES : An undeniably personal history of publishing

By Richard Charkin A Great Manager With Humanity, Judgment I‘m writing this from France, where I am living for the next few weeks unless President Macron becomes so irritated by Brexit that he enforces the deportation of all British citizens. My insecurity about sales was mitigated by the anticipation of a flood of beautifully translated and designed copies flooding in. No longer will we print 200 copies of an academic monograph, ship 150 to warehouses around the world, then on to university libraries, and hope the remaining 50 will evaporate somehow over time. From the library to the lecture theater or classroom, the buzzword in educational publishing for schools and colleges has been “blended learning”–essentially a teacher, a book, and some digital supplements. As soon as the business ceases to be fun—or at least the fun bits outweigh the problems—it will be time to hand over the reins.A fascinating personal assessment of the rise and growth of publishing by someone whose lived through it and whose experience, knowledge and wisdom is second to none. The book was printed and distributed by the brilliant team at IngramSpark, but until you hold a book in your hands, you simply don’t know.

Meet the menschiest man in publishing - The Jewish Chronicle

As Hilary McPhee recounts in Other People’s Words – a British publisher in the 1970s described the Australian branch office personnel as “chimps with crowbars”.As it happens, the same technology and attitude will pervade the thinking of general as well as academic publishers when maintaining the availability of backlist titles. He is a former president of the Book Society and non-executive director of the Institute of Physics Publishing. This was achieved through the project team’s painstaking effort of manually inputting the whole text of the OED, a personal choice that was made to honour the traditional print-based method.

My back pages - Marble Hill Publishers

Leaving the second-largest publishing market in the world outside the tent would have meant fewer opportunities to foster the adoption of international publishing standards. London’s Belle Epoque Patisserie on Upper Street, where Richard Charkin says he conceived and wrote most of ‘My Back Pages. Apart from this, Charkin has had a number of senior executive positions at several publishing companies such as Reed International, Macmillan Publishers, and Oxford University Press. They even awarded me my first company car, although it was generally agreed to have been the worst British car ever manufactured.George Richardson was secretary to the delegates—the chief executive—of Oxford University Press (OUP) from 1974 to 1988. In 1992, this was made a reality, thanks to the efforts of Charkin, alongside John Simpson, Ed Weiner, the Tim Benbow, Julia Swanell and more.



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