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Scholarly Kitchen article on how patron-driven acquisition challenges book pricing

'PDA' is a hot topic in libraries right now, with books measured on popularity in the same way as journal subscriptions are by usage stats. This blog post by Joseph Esposito (a Management Consultant specialising in digital content, and an ex-publisher) is a useful description of how the buying model is now changing for books, and how this impacts on pricing. Interesting reading for anyone selling to libraries, especially in the university sector.

Our Academic Marketing Workshop has much more like this.

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Half-price Introduction to Marketing training, offer only until Thursday 16 May

If your training budget is running on empty but you have junior colleagues you'd love to train, here's one for you. Our regular venue in London (Avonmouth House in SE1) has agreed to a discounted rate on 30 May only, to enable us to pass on a one-time offer to you: places on our Introduction to Marketing in Publishing Workshop at just £195 (half price).

We need at least 8 people to attend to make this work financially. Tempted? Email rachel@marketability.info now to reserve your place, or book on our website entering the offer price on the form. If we receive 8 or more bookings between now and the end of Thursday the course will go ahead at the reduced rate.

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Tip of the Week - always consider word association when copywriting

Thanks to an attendee on a recent course at Granada Learning who said that they could never see the word 'rigour' in copy without thinking of 'rigor mortis', and therefore of the possibility of being bored to death.

Do your books claim to have academic rigour? Or to draw on exhaustive research? Negative connotations can subtly but surely undermine conviction, so it always pays to stop and think about word association before finalising your copy.

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