- Paperback: 264 pages
- Publisher: Routledge; 3 edition (26 Oct 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0415230063
- ISBN-13: 978-0415230063
- Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.8 x 1.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 492,433 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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‘the definitive text for all who need to learn about the publishing industry’- Publishing Training Centre
‘a crucial title if you are looking to enter the industry’- Suzanne Collier, bookcareers.com
'a real joy to look at and use. Navigation is excellent... accurate and well presented.' - Publisher's Association Newsletter
'an excellent introduction to [publishing], managing to be both comprehensive and concise... a perfect starting point.' - The Fiction Desk
‘a 300 page overview which moves logically through the work of “typical” departments and considers different publishing sectors as it does so. Includes plenty of examples, case studies and “Expert, focus and skills boxes”. Unless you can confidently claim to have a well-rounded understanding of publishing, this is a great book for when you want to check what a bit of jargon means, or beef up the financial case for a marketing idea by refreshing your memory of how a book’s P&L is calculated. Fabulous to have as a shelf reference whatever your department.’- Rachel Maund, Marketability
'No matter your age Inside Book Publishing makes for a pleasant reading experience. Throughout, the book is reader friendly and such sections as the Glossary, directory of organisations, networking opportunities, sources, web resources and training courses are an invaluable orientation for the reader. It is well pitched at the dedicated beginner, and liberally illustrated with book covers, page proofs, workflows, tables, halftones and figures... For those entering this culturally and intellectually rewarding industry, this 4th edition should prove to be as useful an investment in a professional capacity as it is in an academic one. - InPrint
'This is an excellent book. I have owned a copy since the first edition... and can thoroughly recommend this edition, which has been expanded as well as updated... [Inside Book Publishing] will help us to understand the industry in which many of us work. I believe that this understanding helps us to be better in our trade, and I recommend this book to everyone.' - Society for Editors and Proofreaders
'an amazingly comprehensive work which is now the definitive textbook for any publishing course, and an invaluable source of ideas, information and inspiration for those about to join or in the early years in the industry. … this fourth [edition] has not only brought the coverage of the industry right up to date with e-books, POD, etc., but a comprehensive rewrite and redesign has made it approachable and entertaining as well as highly informative. No one embarking on a career in publishing should fail to read it - and even those with a few years’ experience will find useful things in it.’- Nicholas Jones, Strathmore Publishing
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Inside Book Publishing provides a wealth of essential information for publishing students and anyone interested in a career in publishing.
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Book publishing was traditionally broadly based with around 50 medium-sized firms employing around 50 or so staff and issuing, say, several hundred titles per year, usually in hardback. Read the first page
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Thorough and comprehensive,
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This review is from: Inside Book Publishing (Paperback)
I must declare my interest - I was part of the (UK) Society of Young Publishers committee which started this ball rolling back in 1979. We saw a need for an introduction to the industry; we planned a mere booklet summarising it as it then was, but Giles Clark - also on the committee - took up the opportunity to make it something vastly more comprehensive and therefore useful. No longer involved in subsequent editions (except as a specialist contributor for a one-page panel in in this last edition), I have watched the project develop into an amazingly comprehensive work which is now the definitive textbook for any publishing course, and an invaluable source of ideas, information and inspiration for those about to join or in the early years in the industry. Some of the third edition was rather dense reading, I would agree, but this fourth has not only brought the coverage of the industry right up to date with e-books, POD, etc., but a comprehensive rewrite and redesign has made it approachable and entertaining as well as highly informative. No one embarking on a career in publishing should fail to read it - and even those with a few years' experience will find useful things in it.
To those wondering how it relates to another book for would-be entrants to the industry, Alison Baverstock et al.'s How To Get a Job in Publishing, I would say that they are quite different things - get both (and see my review of that on its page).
15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
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Want to learn about the publishing industry? READ THIS BOOK!,
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This review is from: Inside Book Publishing (Career Builders Guides) (Paperback)
This book is recognised by the UK publishing industry as an essential information source. It is a Recommended Text on most UK publishing courses, as well as used by the industry's lead training body, the Publishing Training Centre...
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Good reading,
This review is from: Inside Book Publishing (Career Builders Guides) (Paperback)
Very informative publication though I agree with Mr J. Ward's remark about Clark's writing style. I too found it quite difficult to read for that particular reason!
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