Week 3 - Types of Publishing

We were asked to look at different types of publishing and decide what type would fit best with the way we work.

Children's Book Publishing
Growing sectors since 2009 and continues to grow.
Children's books are broken down into age groups.

Journals, Educational, Academic, Reference, Scientific, Technical, Professional and Medical publishing are good for graduates because they are cheap and quick work, there is an expanding market for this.

Newspapers, Editorial, Periodicals, Magazines. In house as well as commissioned work. There is usually a high turnover of images needed along with tight deadlines. They have a solid intake of graduates but they will try to pay them less so they need to be careful when doing work for newspapers.

After thinking about it I decided to research into children's book publishing. We were asked to go and find out how we would be able to get in touch and get our work published in books as if we were doing it for real. This included finding out things such as what publishers exist and who do I need to speak to if I want to submit work, who works there and the managing director of the company.

I looked at publishers such as Random House, Penguin, Transworld, Walker and The Chicken House. I decided to research further into The Chicken House. I found out the Managing Director is Barry Cunningham, OBE. He joined Penguin Books in 1977 as Marketing Director for Puffin, He was there til 1988 until he was headhunted by Random House. He was responsible for signing up J.K Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone. I started thinking of how I would get in touch with him if I were to want to talk to him for real, I found him on Twitter and started following him, I found that he follows books for keeps, Imogen Cooper, Rachel Ward and Phillippa Dickinson, The Managing Director of Random House. I found that he tweets regularly sort of every day, He doesn't have Facebook. He has 500+ connections on Linkedin, You can contact Barry on Linkedin for job enquires, business deals, getting back in touch, expertise requests and reference requests. He is interested in fishing, reading and live music. Viewers of his profile also viewed Imogen Cooper, the senior editor at Chicken House, Elinor Bagenal, the rights director at Chicken House and Jane Johnson, the publishing director at Harper Collins. I think to get in touch with someone like this from being a stranger it would be wise to get in touch with people below him at first and get to know them and work your way up.