What the Supremely Confident Commissioning Editor/Publisher Needs to Know
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4 April 2011 (Mon)
9.00am – 5.00pm
National Library Building
100 Victoria Street, Singapore 188064
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Course Fee: $280.00
MANAGING A SUCCESSFUL LIST
When we’re new to a publishing/commissioning role, we often lack confidence but even when we’ve been in the
role for a few years, the weight of responsibility of managing a successful list or of being targeted with increasing a company’s market share can be overwhelming. This one‐day course will help you take practical steps to achieving more confidence in the responsible role that you have in your organisation.
OUTLINE
- Defining the role of a Commissioning Editor/Publisher: what sort of person do you need to be? What skills, experience, and approach is needed to be successful?
- What tactics does a Commissioning Editor employ to develop new concepts, find new titles, nurture new author relationships?
- What difference does digital make? Should our commissioning approach be any different to print?
- Understanding how we need to instill confidence in colleagues so that proposals are accepted and are given the resource they require
- Developing confidence in your market: how to develop market‐led proposals for products your customers will want to buy
- How to develop relationships with the best authors and ensure your authors deliver on time
- How to hone your business common sense so that your commercial approach will help you plan for profit and improve market share
OUTCOME
- A set of practical tools to present commercial, market‐focused proposals to your acquisitions board and instil your colleagues with confidence
- More confidence to work assertively with authors and get them to deliver on time to support in‐house tight publishing schedules
- More self‐assurance to be accepted as the in‐house expert of your own market sector and practical skills to help you develop better market knowledge
- A better idea of the in‐house commercial world of publishing and how you have to earn the respect of senior colleagues in order to best support your own publishing.
WHO NEEDS THIS COURSE
- New, inexperienced commissioning editors/publishers who want to be taken seriously.
- More experienced commissioning editors/publishers who want to assert their authority amongst peers, authors, sales representatives or senior management and be respected for the responsibilities they fulfill.
- All commissioning editors/publishers who may be daunted by the prospect of building a significant list or who have tough sales targets to meet.
- All commissioning editors/publishers who experience one or two tricky relationships in their role, but know they have to engineer a strong team approach to tackle the challenges of successful publishing.
About the Trainer: Mary James
Mary James has more than 20 years’ experience in educational publishing, working across full curriculum range from primary through to secondary and post-16 college work. She has always faced the editorial challenge of creating new products in a competitive marketplace to grow market share with enthusiasm. Her last corporate role was at HarperCollins Publishers in London as Editorial Director in their Educational division.
Mary set up innoved to provide research and consultancy services for the schools market about 8 years ago and helps publishing organisations identify exactly what it is teachers want to use in the classroom. She also helps publishers develop their own market research skills by providing bespoke, in-house training sessions. Mary has delivered training and presentations for the Publishing Training Centre, London, The Society of Authors and a range of publishing companies, including Nelson Thornes, Hodder, Oxford University Press, and the Catholic Truth Society.
Registration Details
Registration is on a first-come-first-served basis and workshop fees must be paid before the workshop. If the minimum number of participants is not met for the class, the organisers will inform all participants about possible postponement and cancellation, two weeks before the workshop date.
Cancellation & Substitution
The workshop can be cancelled or postponed two weeks before the workshop date if the minimum number of participants is not met. Participants will be fully refunded for workshops cancelled by us.
Participants who are unable to attend a workshop they have registered for are to inform us of the reason two weeks before the workshop date. They will be fully refunded in the event of extenuating and mitigating circumstances (E.g. illness, bereavement, accidents) . Those who inform us up to five (5) working days before the workshop date will receive a 50% refund. Participants can also attend another course at the same value within the same year.
Upon registration, you are deemed to have read and understood the cancellation, withdrawal and substitution policy and accept the terms contained therein.