In publishing terms, the opening of offices across Europe, Asia, and Latin America laid the foundations for Oxford dominance in English Language Teaching (ELP). The prioritization of scholarly journals made Oxford a legitimate competitor to the massive scientific publishers. The computerization of the Oxford English Dictionary not only preserved a great scholarly work but also furnished OUP with digital skills ahead of its competitors.

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What’s puzzling me is the French title, Dix Pour Cent. How come actors typically pay their agents 10 percent while authors typically pay their agents 15 percent? And how did literary agents manage to increase their share of the cake by 50 percent without any apparent resistance? You have to admire their skill.

This is the first lesson for a young publisher coming out of Charkin’s book. Look at who is running the business you work for. Some of them have been in more or less the same position for more than 30 years. Do you trust them with your career? If not you must agitate for change I can’t claim to have proved definitively that you can do it. But we’re still in business. And there’s slightly more cash in the bank than when we started.” Another shift covered in the book covers is the growing diversity in publishing and the benefits this brings – though the industry still has a long way to go.

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This is the first lesson for a young publisher coming out of Charkin’s book. Look at who is running the business you work for. Some of them have been in more or less the same position for more than 30 years. Do you trust them with your career? If not you must agitate for change. That was then and now we say goodbye to 2021, a revolutionary year in many ways for the publishing industry. I am an author, and I agree that writing a book is not easy and requires a great deal of effort and skill to effectively complete. However, when done well, it can attract people to buy and read the book. I recently read the memoir; it is wonderful. Who might publish it? It might seem strange that a publisher would embark on such a project without a contract or at least an idea of who might publish it. I was relieved of any decision-making by one of my “referees,” Francis Bennett of Marble Hill Publishers, who—rather than critiquing the book—offered to publish it.How did I come to publish my old friend and rival, Richard Charkin? Despite our longevity, he and I continue to publish with our own small presses because it is what we know and love. We were having lunch one day when Richard asked if I would look at his memoir.

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Simpson, J. (2017). The Word Detective: Searching for the Meaning of it All at the Oxford English Dictionary: A Memoir. Basic Books. Two intentions but not contractual rules are (1) to pay royalties quarterly on the same day I receive quarterly cash from sales, and (2) we try to avoid withholding a percentage of money owing against potential future negative sales from returned copies. Sometimes the latter is implemented if we’ve sold, or more accurately lent, materially more copies to bookshops than they’ve sold, but we’re normally able to ignore this. Wastage and Its Costs George Richardson was secretary to the delegates—the chief executive—of Oxford University Press (OUP) from 1974 to 1988. I worked there from 1975 to 1988 so we were almost exact contemporaries.

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I have worked in publishing for most of my adult career (30+ years), but all on the editorial side and never gave much thought to the business side. That might be as inconceivable to you as it is to me (after having read your book). And loved reading about Mensch Publishing (love the name, the concept, and the “mission statement”). My friends and I have a tradition of giving a “mensch rating” to the partners that our various children bring home. Anyway, thank you so much for this book and for all your work and knowledge. All best with sales and distribution. I see you have an event tonight and wish I were in London to attend it. However, I WILL be in London for a few days in the fall (I think it’s early Nov) and would love to meet you if you’re around. My challenge began some years ago when a handful of people asked me if I was ever going to write my memoirs. I said no for many reasons. Is it at all accurate? How embarrassing to be wrong about key issues. Somebody has, for instance, written to me that I’d named the wrong print union at one point—forgivable given the acronyms (ASTMS, NGA, SOGAT) and the tedium of long pointless negotiations with them at the time. Fortunately I had the good fortune to identify a dozen “referees” to read the manuscript from their points of view and with their critical eyes. They were brilliant and saved me from any number of errors. And today the landscape is celebrity memoirs, cookery books, fiction and commercial fiction,” he explained. “In the 80s or 90s it was interesting that there was a significant growth in what might be described as literary fiction from the usual bunch of men and some women. I think this growth might have peaked. As kids have become less used to reading long novels, serious fiction may be under threat. Reading habits have changed since novels were the main source of culture in the 19th century.” In parallel, book production has become global and will become more so as our industry tries to reduce its carbon footprint and thus print closer to market rather than closer to publishing headquarters. This has been happening in Australia for quite a while but there’s logic to applying the same logistics around the world. Print on demand technology, availability, and price will accelerate this, too.