Your tutor is Josie Dixon, now a publishing consultant but before 2003 Publishing Director at Palgrave Macmillan, and before that at Cambridge University Press.
What’s it
really like?
‘Very good for focusing the mind on core financial concerns.’
Delegate from Pluto Press
In a market as tough as today’s, it’s no longer enough to commission a list of first-rate titles. You’re running a part of the business, and profitability (even in the non-profit sector) is essential to the organisation’s survival – and yours. Sharpen your commercial focus and ensure that your editorial objectives are fully in line with those of the business with this strategic, practical and highly motivating workshop. If your editorial priorities and financial targets have ever seemed at odds, this is the course that will get them back in sync and working effectively for the success of your list, your company, and your career.
Who’s it for?
Commissioning editors, senior commissioning editors, publishers, editorial managers: anyone with responsibility for list-building and development in book publishing will benefit, whether in commercial publishing or not for profit.
What’s covered?
Your list: what are the business needs?
Analysing sales and profitability
Strategic list-building
Making your commissioning targets
Meeting schedules and budgets
Controlling profitability
Releasing backlist profit
Questions, discussion and exercises throughout.
Put simply, this workshop will equip you with sound commercial tools for publishing profitably those projects your instinct tells you will succeed.
| 27 November 2008 | London | £350 +VAT | BOOK |
| 2 April 2009 | London | £350 +VAT | BOOK |
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‘Josie was clearly very experienced and had lots of examples to draw on. Good balance of tutor-led training and discussion.’
Delegate from Nelson Thornes
‘She was friendly, responsive, her delivery style was excellent and she worked hard at including all the delegates.’
Delegate from Boydell & Brewer
‘Practical overview, a stimulating rethink of where we are and where we're going’
Delegate from Dundee University Press
