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A Student’s View of the Publishing World: Frankfurt Book Fair October 2015

by Isabella Anton

Filing into the Frankfurt Book Fair, thirty-two publishing students from Oxford Brookes University were unprepared for what was waiting for us in the halls beyond. Hundreds upon thousands of people filled the venue, all from different parts of the world.

We had been told time and again by our lecturers to network – talk with everyone; do our research on who will be there. But there were over a thousand publishing houses! The Frankfurt Book Fair is one of the few times right and sales managers are able to meet with their global partners. One minute they’d be talking with someone from China and the next, a person from America. Their diaries are full, but our lecturers organized appointments for us with publishers, and we were grateful for the chance to talk with them on a day like this. In addition we found that we can often chat to some of the smaller publishers on an ad hoc basis throughout the day.

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A Session with Eric Huang, Development Director at Made in Me

by Ishani Bhattacharya

On a bright sunny day, an enthusiastic and impressive figure of Eric Huang, Development Director at Made in Me, woke up me and my fellow classmates from a weekend of gloomy weather to an exciting and imaginative world of digital publishing.

What better than some back-story to get us hooked to the session? From his obsession with dinosaurs to his actual ‘first’ job at Disney as a receptionist, Eric instantly connected to many in the house who had their various perceptions and ideas of the world is thwarted by reality. The take-away was – Publishing has something for everyone!

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Eric Huang: Made in Me

by Annabelle Rose

Branding. It’s one of those advertising words that should span across every industry but is some how neglected by many. The importance of branding is what I am going to take from Developmental Director Eric Huang’s lecture on Tuesday 20 October 2015. 

He is a rare breed of man that can leave behind the allure of industry powerhouses like Disney publishing and Penguin Random House to team up with the small, yet highly creative company Made in Me. His aim? Simple: to inspire the next generation to learn, grow and simply have fun through digital technologies. 

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James Daunt speaks to Brookes Publishing students

by Andri Nel

‘Bookshops are made of the books in them’

When we heard that James Daunt would be coming to speak to the department on Tuesday 6 October a wave of excitement swept through our MA Publishing class. We all knew that Daunt had been somewhat of a saving grace for Waterstones, but as many of us were international students, having the opportunity to hear from Daunt in person was even more of a treat.

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British Book Design Awards - Extended Deadline!

by Helena Markou

OICPS are delighted to be involved behind the scenes with the British Book Design & Production Awards.  Opening parcel after parcel of beautifully designed books is a tough job, but someone's got to do it!  Entries have already begun to pour in, so don't delay in sending yours to us.  The deadline for entries is now Tuesday 16th July 2015.  

Details of the entry requirements and application process can be found here.

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Graham Bell: On the Importance of metadata - Part 2 #DLL15

by Fernanda Dutra

"The industry needs intermediaries between creatives and techies"

As publishing students, we are now used to listening to professionals explaining why their jobs are called this or that, and what exactly they do — the  characteristics of an industry going through many changes. To open his lunchtime seminar at Oxford Brookes, Graham Bell, Executive Director at EDItEUR, said: "I always sat in the middle of the table". What could that mean in a contemporary publishing context?

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Graham Bell: On the Importance of metadata - Part 1 #DLL15

by Kelly Neubeiser

“Metadata is the most important part of publishing. Even though it isn’t, we’ll assume this is true for this talk.”

Right from the beginning, Graham Bell was encouraging us to challenge our existing scope of publishing knowledge. In his digital lecture, Bell discussed the importance of metadata within the communication cycle of publishing.  

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Educake: “Why a small digital publishing company can be beautiful” DLL15

by Kelsi Farrington

EDUCAKE’s Managing Director and Founder, Charley Darbishire visited a crowd of Digital Publishing students for an open lunchtime talk at Oxford Brookes University on Wednesday, February 25th and brought insight into the development of one of the most well-designed and user-friendly teaching resources available online.  

Educake is a new online homework and revision resource for teachers and students of Secondary Science. The platform, available on iPads, Chromebooks and tablets is specifically designed for the benefit of GCSE students (aged 14-16) to use in and out of class and enables their teachers to mark and monitor their progress and aptitude of a particular topic.

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Fungible Enough: Digital Lunchtime Lecture with Ben Salvesen, Osprey Publishing #DLL15

by Hannah Bright

The title of this particular Digital Lunchtime Lecture gave absolutely nothing away. What does fungible mean, and what could it possibly have to do with publishing? As most of my peers and I have only recently started learning about digital publishing, we’re unsure whether to be excited, apprehensive or just plain petrified about what lies ahead.

(Fungible actually means “being of such nature or kind as to be freely exchangeable or replaceable, in part or whole, for another of a like nature or kind”. It turns out Ben likes to drop difficult words into conversation and it seems like this lecture is going to turn out to be very educational!).

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Dr Liz Marchant’s Digital Lunchtime Lecture - (#DLL15)

by Anna Wallis

When you take your seat at a lecture entitled “Digital Publishing – A View from an Educational Publisher” you expect to learn about two things: digital publishing and educational publishing. What you don’t expect is to have a mirror held up to your entire life as a consumer.
Liz Marchant, the Head of Science Publishing at Pearson Education, started by telling us about the challenges and benefits that are unique to digital products. She then stressed the interconnection of digital and print educational content development. She painted a wonderfully optimistic picture of what’s possible with the technology we have today.

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