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NEWS IN BRIEF NEWS IPG launches training scheme BY TOM TIVNAN A BOOK FULL OF SUGAR
Sir Alan Sugar is to use his four million Twitter followers to crowdsource material for a new book for Pan Macmillan, about his 10 years in TV. Editorial director Ingrid Connell
acquired world rights directly from Sugar. The book will explain what he thought of some of the tasks and candidates on “The Apprentice”; how he brought Nick Hewer, Margaret Mountford and Karren Brady on board; what became of the show’s winners; and how working on “The Apprentice” inspired him and others. It will be his third book for Pan Mac.
CUP EXTENDS OA AT LBF
Cambridge University Press has boosted its Open Access (OA) programme to monographs, after launching a new service at the London Book Fair yesterday. The OA Monograph Publishing
Service will enable CUP authors to print Gold OA monographs (which are freely available to the end user) for books of up to 120,000 words, for a charge of £6,500. The launch of the service follows two forays into OA monograph publishing last year: Jo Guidi and David Armitage’s The History Manifesto and Martin Paul Eve’s Open Access and the Humanities. Matthew Day, CUP head of open and data publishing, called the service an “exciting experiment”.
MAYBE ESTHER TO FOURTH ESTATE
Fourth Estate editor Anna Kelly has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to Maybe Esther by German author Katja Petrowskaja, from HarperCollins US. Originally published in German by Suhrkamp in 2013, the title won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, a venerable award for books written in the German language. Rights have been sold in more than 20 languages. Maybe Esther tells the story of the author’s search for the colourful and traumatic history of her Jewish ancestors. Publication is slated for May 2016.
The Independent Publishers Guild is to launch a charitable body aimed at improving the skills and business practices of its members. The IPG Foundation will fund a series of programmes including one-on-one mentoring, leadership coaching, apprenticeships and “a whole package of professional development opportunities”. The body will have charitable and limited-by-guarantee status and operate “at arms length” from the IPG. It will be supported by the IPG Patrons, a committee of former publishers who continue to advise the trade body after selling their companies. The 17-strong group of patrons—who become IPG life members by contributing “at least” £2,000 to the organisation— includes Woodhead Publishing founder Martin Woodhead, ex-
emphasised that the foundation would not compete with established development schemes such as the Publishing Training Centre. She said: “Ultimately, the IPG is about helping our members improve their businesses. Facilitating professional development is a huge part of our work and we hope all of our members will take advantage of these new opportunities.” Shine also revealed that there are
Earthscan owner Edward Milford and Jill Pearce, who launched Donhead Publishing in 1990. Cavendish Publishing founder
Sonny Leong will oversee the foundation, stepping down from his current role as IPG honorary president to lead the scheme. The programme’s first activities will be revealed after this year’s London Book Fair. IPG c.e.o. Bridget Shine (pictured)
82 different companies exhibiting at this year’s IPG stand, the same number of exhibitors as there was at LBF 2014. Shine said: “With a new venue we didn’t know what to expect, [we] thought we may have fewer people. In fact, we have taken even more space than at Earls Court because we have more exhibitors taking larger spaces. I’m pleased that we’ve have a few first-time exhibitors, such as Nosy Crow and the London Stereoscopic Company.”
PERRY TO DESIGN BAMB TOTE BAG
Grayson Perry will design a collector’s edition tote bag for this year’s Books Are My Bag (BAMB) campaign. The Turner Prize-winning British artist’s design will be revealed at the BAMB launch on 8th October, which is also “Super Thursday”, the day on which a large number of publishers’ key titles are published ahead of the Christmas period. The nationwide programme of in-store events, Big Bookshop Parties, returns on 10th October. Dame Gail Rebuck, joint chair of the BAMB steering group, said: “After the
success of the first two years, the Books Are My Bag campaign is going into its third year gathering momentum, fuelled by the enthusiasm of booksellers, publishers and authors. We are privileged, this year, to have the support of Grayson Perry, one of the best-known and certainly best-loved artists in Britain today, who will design a limited edition bag for the campaign.”
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Pack bought UK and Commonwealth rights to When the Professor Got Stuck in the Snow by Dan Rhodes from Sophie Lambert at Conville & Walsh. Rhodes self-published 400 hardback copies of the title in February 2014, attracting eam media coverage and critical acclaim. The novel is a satire starring atheist Riichard Dawkins, who is forced to stay with a vicar and his wife after getting caught in a blizzard. Pack said Dawkins has a “great sense of humour” and was a “champion of free speech”, adding that he thought other publishers were too afraid to publish the title for fear of being sued. ac
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Pack will also bring across some titles from his role at HarperCollins’ The Friday Project imprint, including two novellas by Andrew Kaufman and an official biography of rock band The The, written by Neil Fraser.
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