Inside Book Publishing

Auteur

Angus Phillips is Director of the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies at Oxford Brookes University, UK.

Giles Clark was formerly Co-Publishing Adviser at The Open University, UK.

Résumé
Now fully revised and updated for its seventh edition, Inside Book Publishing is the classic introduction to the book publishing industry.

Contenu

List of expert, focus and skills boxes

Illustration credits

Sources for quotations in sidebars

Preface to the seventh edition

Preface to the previous editions

Acknowledgements

Book publishing: an introduction

1. The development of modern trade publishing

2. Publishing for educational, academic and professional markets

3. The characteristics of the main publishing sectors

4. Creating and protecting value in publishing

5. The author

6. Commissioning and acquisition

7. The author contract and editorial development

8. Design and production

9. Marketing and publicity

10. Sales and distribution

11. Rights Sales

12. The sales channels for books in the UK

Glossary

Bibliography

Index