Oxford Brookes UniversityPublishing Podcasts
Podcast Episode: 51
Jane Potter and Angus Phillips interviewed on BBC →
World Book Day, 1 March 2012
For World Book Day, 1 March 2012, the lunchtime show on BBC Radio Oxford looked at key developments in the story of the book. These included the development of printing, the paperback revolution of the 1930s, and the present growth in the popularity of ebooks. Both Jane Potter and Angus Phillips from the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies were interviewed for the programme by Jo Thoenes.
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Posted on 15 Mar 2012 around 2pm
Podcast Episode: 50
Kay Peddle - The book is dead, long live the book →
Publishing, writing and reading in the digital era.
(Editor at The Bodley Head, a non-fiction imprint at The Random House Group)
Self-publishing, eBooks, Amazon, piracy - the threats to trade publishing are numerous but the opportunities are too. Publishers need to be creative and agile in order to adapt to the rapidly changing retail and consumer environments we currently face. Thinking about content creatively and taking risks on new formats and retail channels is vital. Kay will talk briefly about what Random House is doing in this area and will also touch on how other trade publishers are evolving from the traditional book publishing model into the multi-platform 'content' model.
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Posted on 15 Mar 2012 around 1pm
Podcast Episode: 49
Chris Book, CEO Bardowl →
New Model Audiobooks or Lessons learned in starting a digital publishing business
Chris is a technologist first and foremost. Chris studied on the Modular Course at Brookes between 1993 and 1996, his main subjects were Computing, Intelligent Systems and Bodrum Kebabs. The inspiration for Bardowl came from years of listening to audiobooks and podcasts, knowing they could be delivered better. Chris has only ever worked in mobile, starting his career at Orange in 1997 and has worked at the most exciting mobile companies since, pioneering the mobile internet and apps ecosystems. Chris cannot quite believe his luck that his two passions of Books and Mobile have intersected as industries and enabled him to start Bardowl. Chris also organises conferences and barcamps such as The Power of One, The Big M, openMIC and BathCamp. Chris lives in Bath, is married with 2 children, has a 2nd degree black belt in Tae Kwon-Do and supports Tottenham Hotspur. Chris tweets far too much at @bookmeister.
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Posted on 15 Mar 2012 around 11am
Podcast Episode: 48
Excel Is Not Enough →
Skills for the Modern Publisher
Emma Barnes, Snowbooks
The age of the manager is coming to a close. Doing, not directing, is the secret to making a difference in organisations - particularly those in a mature industry coming under increasing fire from newcomers and disruptive technologies. You, personally, need to be able to not only use but invent leading-edge technological solutions. Emma Barnes, co-founder and MD of innovative indie publisher Snowbooks, will share some real-world examples of the sorts of problems facing the modern publisher, and how technological competence can overcome them.
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Posted on 02 Mar 2012 around 1pm
Podcast Episode: 47
The Expresso Book machine at Blackwells
Print on-demand and ebook digital workflows →
Suzanne Wilson-Higgins
Publishing On-demand: just in time , not just in case
- Print on-Demand
- eBooks
- Print on-Demand and eBooks: Publishing On-Demand
One workflow, multiple outputs
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Posted on 02 Mar 2012 around 12pm
Podcast Episode: 46
Non-Profit Publishing at Oxfam →
Robert Cornford (Communications Manager)
How Non-Profit Publishing works at Oxfam.
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Posted on 24 Feb 2012 around 3pm
Podcast Episode: 45
Digital publishing at Pearson Education - Liz Marchant →
Liz Marchant linforms us about some of the digital projects she has been involved in at Pearson Education. The talk will focuses primarily on digital delivery of science and ICT related products for secondary schools.
Dr Liz Marchant is Head of Publishing: Science and ICT (Pearson)
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Posted on 09 Feb 2012 around 1pm
Podcast Episode: 44
OPUS: Reaching Tablets & eReaders - Lindsay Mooney of Kobo →
How Kobo can work with publishers in the UK to distribute ebooks both here in the UK and worldwide
Lindsay Mooney of Kobo talks about their partnership with WH Smith’s and how Kobo can work with publishers in the UK to distribute ebooks both here in the UK ad worldwide.
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Posted on 28 Nov 2011 around 11am