Lifetime sales for Alastair Campbell’s books through BookScan UK FAIR SEMINARS TRADE NEEDS NEW ENTREPRENEURS Joshua Farrington


People who understand technology, people with passion, and entrepreneurs were some of the answers given by panellists to the question: “What kind of people do publishers need?” in a debate at the fair yesterday. Organised by the Publishers Association, the seminar took in issues of diversity, internships, and the changing role of technology. Although all agreed that being able to work with


technology was valuable, Faber c.e.o. and publisher Stephen Page said that people had to be able to apply their knowledge to the business. He said: “It’s not that we need a lot of programmers


in publishing, it’s that we need people who understand what can be done with those skills. We don’t just have to make products, we are also creating services for writers and readers, and people need the vision to judge what will come next.” Dominic Mahoney, group HR director at Hachette,


added “We need people with the mind-set to develop what people will be reading,” and that it applied to all aspects of the business, including editorial, marketing and production. He also encouraged entrepreneurs to tackle


publishing. He said: “It’s a fundamentally entrepreneurial business—each book is a new product entering the marketplace. People have to be ambitious, they need that spirit to succeed.” Questions from the floor asked how publishers could open access to people from different


Careers website for PA The Publishers


Association has launched a new section of its website focused on careers in publishing. Called “Working in Publishing”, the area will provide information on publishing courses, links to recruitment agencies,


an RSS feed to The Bookseller job adverts and information on networking events. It will also feature interviews with professionals already in publishing, talking about how and why they joined the industry. PA c.e.o. Richard Mollet (above) said the site


was part of the body’s wider strategy to promote workforce development in publishing. He added: “To continue its success, British publishing requires people with a range of different skills and it needs to offer a range of rewarding career paths. This site highlights some of these and will hopefully help the sector to attract the brightest and best people into the industry.”


backgrounds. Natalie Jerome, publishing director at HarperCollins, said: “I think we have seen the culture change very positively in the past few years [but] it’s not an issue we can ignore.”


COPYRIGHT LICENSING CHANGES ‘JUST BEGINNING’


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Publishers must get used to a “permanent, never-ending requirement” to keep simplifying copyright licensing rather than imagining it is a one-off job, Richard Hooper told the fair yesterday, at the Charles Clark Memorial Lecture. Hooper, chair of the Copyright Hub Launch Group, said that the


widely drawn educational exception to copyright law which came out of the Hargreaves Review could have been avoided “if educational licensing had got its act together earlier” with rights aggregation and one-stop shops. The simplification of copyright licensing was not a


copyright licensing will be like modernisation or management re-engineering or cost reduction, a permanent never- ending requirement of the c o p y r i g h t


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industries . . . I fear that the winds of change from the internet and the digital world have barely begun to blow.”


HUTCHINSON BUYS NEW NOVEL BY CAMPBELL Hutchinson has acquired a new novel by Alastair Campbell, previously director of communications and strategy for Tony Blair during his time as prime minister, buying UK and Commonwealth rights from Ed Victor. The novel, My Name Is . . ., to be published in September, is described


as “the uncompromising story of a young girl’s descent into alcoholism”.


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one-off labour, Hooper warned, but would need to be continuously exercised as new technologies continue to disrupt the established order. He added: “Streamlining


NEWS IN BRIEF


PEARS’ DIGITAL NOVEL DÉBUTED Author Iain Pears and publisher Faber displayed the work in progress of Pears’ latest novel at the fair yesterday, an experimental work called Arcadia, which will first be released as an app. Pears, author of An Instance of the Fingerpost, specially commissioned software to allow him to write the novel in interconnected sections that will offer readers different ways of following the text. Pears said: “I have been working on this book for two and a half years, and thinking about it for more like 15. I eventually came to realise that the business of turning the page was the problem.” He said the story had developed alongside the software, and would consist of four strands beginning and ending at the same point around the Cuban Missile Crisis, with some strands lasting weeks, and others years. Faber plans to publish Arcadia as an app in autumn, followed as a re-written book in spring 2014.


INDIE ALLIANCE CREATES INDEPENDENTS DAY The Independent Alliance consortium of UK publishers is partnering with the ICA to launch a one-day festival “to celebrate and explore independence across the creative industries” in Britain. The event, which will run on 6th June, will feature publishers such as Faber’s Stephen Page (left) and


Atlantic’s Ravi Mirchandani in seminars with other creative industry leaders, including Domino Records founder Laurence Bell, musicians and writers including Alan Bennett and Edna O’Brien.


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