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2011 - 2012 SEASON SPEAKER REVIEWS
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WEDNESDAY 5 OCTOBER 2011
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Simon Garfield
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Author and journalist
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How Helvetica and Comic Sans took over the world – the story of fonts
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Fonts are integral to all our working lives in the book industry, but a trade book about fonts? Not an obvious title to appeal to the average bookbuyer, you might think. But last Christmas Simon Garfield’s Just My Type started flying off the shelves. Simon is the author of a dozen non-fiction books andin Just My Type he examines “how Helvetica and Comic Sans took over the world”. It explains why we are still influenced by type choices made more than 500 years ago, and profiles the great originators of type, from Baskerville to Zapf.
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WEDNESDAY 9 NOVEMBER 2011
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Sam Missingham
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Head of Audience Development for the Bookseller and co-founder of Futurebook.net
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Making social networking work for your company
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Sam Missingham has embraced social media with the Bookseller and has built up a following of over 28,000. Twitter is now the third largest traffic driver to the Bookseller’s website. She also uses Twitter to engage with the digital publishing community to source speakers, bloggers and keep up-to-date with global developments and trends. She will talk about how you build credibillity and raise your profile using social media. And will give you tactics and tips for doing so.
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WEDNESDAY 7 DECEMBER 2011
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Barry Winkleman
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Publisher, Translator, bon vivant |
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When Rupert bought “The Times” - A personal reminiscence
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Barry started at The Times in 1966, in the Special Publications department, when the paper was owned by Lord Astor. After the merger with The Sunday Times under Lord Thomson, he became the first MD of Times Books in the 1970s. He published the very successful Times Atlas of World History and subsequent Times Atlases. After Rupert Murdoch bought The Times, Barry was asked to run City Magazines as well, then John Bartholomew in Edinburgh, which had been acquired by Murdoch in 1985 |
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WEDNESDAY 8 FEBRUARY 2012
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Alessandro Gallenzi
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Managing Director at Alma Books and Oneworld Classics
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Passionate about books
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An exceptionally talented publisher, editor and translator, Alessandro will be talking about his translation work and how that fits into his publishing business. In content and production values, the books he publishes reflect his passion for quality and style associated with Italy at its best.
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WEDNESDAY 7 MARCH 2012
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Peter Mathews
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Publishing and Editorial Services Manager, Nielsen Books
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Trendy publishing
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Peter Mathews has considerable experience working in the 80s and 90s in bookselling retail and as a buyer before joining Nielsen. He will talk to us about sales trends in reporting figures and where he sees the varied, apparently unpredictable influences current in the publishing industry are taking us.
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WEDNESDAY 18 APRIL 2012
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Emma Kennedy
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writer, actor, idiot (according to her Twitter account)
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Me, My Tents, Buckets and other stories
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Author Emma Kennedy has been writing for TV and radio for over a decade and is Travel columnist for The Guardian. Emma has won Sony Awards for the Sunday Format and The Now Show. Her most recent books are the best-selling The Tent, The Bucket and Me and I Left My Tent in San Francisco published under the Ebury Press imprint, and the Wilma Tenderfoot series for MacMillan Children’s Books. Emma has appeared in award-winning comedy including Goodness Gracious Me and The Smoking Room. In 2003 she won the Comedy Lounge Best Actress Award for her role in Bill Shakespeare’s Italian Job and in 2005 won the British Television Advertising Craft Award for Best Actress. More recently at the Edinburgh International Festival, she hosted a preview showing of the first of a new series of Forbrydelsen, the successful Danish crime drama starring Sofie Grabol. Emma is going to tell us about her latest projects, about other activities such as her life on Twitter, plus some future plans.
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www.emmakennedy.net
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