If you ever get discouraged about the state of book sales around the world, take a look at The Book Depository Live to brighten your spirits! The Book Depository Live is a live map that updates several times per minute with the names and locations of books purchased through The Book Depository, the United Kingdom’s largest online bookseller. For example, a quick look at the map reveals that “Someone in Norway bought The Catcher in the Rye,” and “Someone in the United Kingdom bought Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.” It’s entertaining for book lovers to watch the map as it scrolls to countries all over the world, showing the widely varied book purchases of readers around the globe. And for those who hope to enter the industry of book sales, it’s reassuring as well!
Link of the Week: The Book Depository Live
May 16th, 2012 by admin
Part-Time Job Opportunity!
May 16th, 2012 by admin
American Book Producers Association, Administrator
Description:
Coordinate the administrative functions of this book industry trade group. Duties include tracking membership, helping to organize events, communication to members and book industry about organization events, maintenance of website, attendance at and taking minutes at monthly board of directors meeting. The position will offer visibility to a wide range of book industry professionals.
Qualifications:
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Well-organized and detail oriented
- Ability to work independently
Part-time: approximately 15 hours/month
Salary: $20/hour
Location: this is an independent contractor position and the person will work largely on his or her own time.
Resumes should be sent to Richard Rothschild, the president of the ABPA, at richard@printmatters.com. Please also copy Professor Denning at jdenning@pace.edu.
Sales and Marketing Job Opportunity!
May 16th, 2012 by admin
Oxford University Press is looking for a Sales and Marketing Coordinator in the Global Marketing Department. The Sales and Marketing Cordinator provides administrative and executive support to the Vice President of Global Marketing for Oxford University Press’s Global Academic Business.
Global Marketing is a 200+ global team comprised of Product Marketing, Discipline and End-User Marketing, Market Research, Branding and Communications, Publicity, Digital Marketing, Social Media, Direct Marketing and Retail and Wholesale Account Management and Merchandising.
This position is ideal for a candidate who:
- Has a passion to receive an immersive and deep education in publishing and/or marketing and sales.
- Loves a fast-paced multi-tasking environment.
- Thrives in an environment where self-initiative can add tremendous value.
- Enjoys a broad-based vantage point of a growing and changing business.
Responsibilities:
- General Administrative Duties:
- Answering phone, write correspondence, fax, file, etc.
- Maintain overbooked Outlook calendar with attention to corresponding time zones.
- Manage departmental budgets and expenses.
- Manage internal and external communications; proofread and edit numerous high-profile correspondences.
- Serve as the general contact for all Marketing Directors in NY, Cary, and Oxford headquarter offices and global satellite offices.
- Manage to-do lists.
- PowerPoint Presentations:
- Compile information from different internal departments.
- Conduct independent research.
- Find appropriate imagery.
- Global Travel Coordination:
- Manage flights, itineraries, correspondence and visas as necessary.
- Liaise with team in the UK for bimonthly trips.
- Meeting Planning and Administration:
- Develop schedules and agendas for senior management team meetings and general staff briefings.
- Facilitate and ensure seamless setup of executive level meetings.
- Take and circulate minutes in a timely fashion.
- Follow up on action plan reporting and deliverables from various functions within the company.
- Coordinate with internal staff and external consultants to pull together necessary agendas, video conference set-up, and refreshments for high-level meetings.
- Flexibility to do special projects for the department.
Qualifications:
- BA or Equivalent
- Must be detail-oriented, proactive, and a creative problem solver
- Must have excellent communication skills
- Must possess a clear ability to follow directions
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
- PowerPoint: design, animation, etc.
- Excel: formulas, macros, filters, formulas etc.
- Word: merge, templates, etc.
- Strong analytical and organizational skills
- Experience with senior management administrative assistance a plus
If you are interested in applying, email your resume (no cover letter needed) to menashe.schorr@oup.com, and copy Professor Denning at jdenning@pace.edu.
Online Marketing Assistant Job Opportunity!
May 16th, 2012 by admin
Oxford University Press is hiring an Online Marketing Assistant to work in the Direct Response Marketing and Sales Department. The Online Marketing Assistant is responsible for administrating and producing OUP-USA email campaigns. This individual carries out a variety of tasks from scheduling and producing email campaigns to providing ad-hoc support for special initiatives in online marketing. This person will work closely with colleagues in product marketing, direct mail and exhibits to ensure that all efforts are combined effectively. Flexibility, strong communication skills, inventive marketing ideas, organization and attention to detail are all critical success qualities.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for scheduling, creating (using HTML and Dreamweaver), and deploying regular email marketing campaigns to targeted recipient lists.
- Coordinate with marketing staff for email content, featured product selection, and timely execution of email campaigns.
- QA and test emails (HTML and text versions) for compatibility with multiple email clients and web browsers; ensure all links, images, prices and subject lines are correct.
- Collect and analyze performance metrics for all email campaigns.
- Work with Online Marketing Manager to execute special projects related to increasing site presence and email list growth.
- Research and develop new Online Marketing initiatives in coordination with Online Marketing team.
- Collect and distribute monthly campaign metrics.
Qualifications:
- Proficiency with HTML and Dreamweaver is highly-preferable. Experience with CSS and Adobe Photoshop is beneficial but not crucial.
- Excellent project management, time management, and organizational skills, as well as attention to detail and the ability to juggle multiple tasks while meeting deadlines are crucial.
- Typical Microsoft Office skills (Excel, Word, Project, etc.) are required.
- BA or BS required; one year of work experience is preferable.
- Fundamental knowledge of publishing and/or online marketing is beneficial.
If you are interested in applying for this position, email your resume (no cover letter needed) to menashe.schorr@oup.com, and copy Professor Denning at jdenning@pace.edu.
Link of the Week: The New Yorker – The Book Bench
May 7th, 2012 by admin
The New Yorker is a Condé Nast publication and one of the most revered American magazines; it features commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. The magazine began publication in 1925, and it is now published 47 times annually. As well as the paper edition, there is an online website devoted to the magazine. One of the blogs is titled, The Book Bench, and it is The New Yorker‘s literary blog. There are various articles that relate to different aspects of the literary world. Some of the posts recommend new novels, while others discuss literary news and analyses of famous authors and works of literature. Each post offers interesting content to literary lovers everywhere!
Job Opportunity with Scholastic!
May 7th, 2012 by admin
Scholastic is looking for an energetic, highly organized Creative Assistant to work in the Creative Services Department of Scholastic’s Trade Marketing group.
The Creative Services group writes, designs, and releases all collateral materials for the marketing, publicity, conventions, and educational/library teams. Items that the group creates range from bookmarks, displays, ads (online and print), discussion guides, posters, in-store signage, and website builds to powerpoint presentations.
The Creative Services Assistant will:
- Work closely with Brand Managers on newsletter placements and external ad campaigns
- Administrative support for the VP, Trade Marketing
- Provide Production assistance
- Manage Estimating Process through Manufacturing
- Track Released jobs through Manufacturing
- Manage Cover Art Collection
- Create Powerpoint presentations
- Assist with Digital Marketing projects
- Pull assets for site maintenance updates (generally buy links, covers, and excerpts from The Source, and summaries from the catalog)
Requirements:
- Experience in publishing/creative field useful, but not required
- Some design experience is a plus
- Solid writing and communication skills required
- Knowledge of various computer systems: Experience with Excel, Word, Quark, Adobe, Powerpoint, FileMaker Pro)
- Ablity to multi-task
- Good follow-through skills
If you are interested in this job position, please send your resume and cover letter to Professor Denning at jkinneydenning@pace.edu by Friday, May 11.
Part-Time Job Opportunity!
May 7th, 2012 by admin
Persea Books, Inc. is a small, independent publishing house, established in New York in 1975. They are looking for a part-time employee to assist in office bookkeeping. Responsibilities include: royalties, promotional work, and assisting in the creation and maintenance of ebooks and Print-on-Demand titles. The position is for seven hours a week, $12.00 an hour. For more information, please visit their website: http://www.perseabooks.com/.
If you are interested in this job position, please send your resume and cover letter to Loie Merritt at publicity@perseabooks.com. Please copy (CC) Professor Soares at msoares@pace.edu.
Another Temp Job Opportunity!
May 7th, 2012 by admin
MTM Publishing is an elite book producer and editorial services company. Through this editorial and research assistant position, the chosen candidate will assist the staff of an award-winning company in the coordination and research for book development projects, including the Political Handbook of the World, Princeton Companion to Atlantic History, and Science and Politics: Issues and Controversies. This position will include communication with academics, authors, and other contributors as well as research and writing on some aspects of the above projects, and general administrative support.
Qualifications:
- Excellent written communication skills
- Well-organized and detail-oriented
- Resourceful researcher
This position is part-time – approximately 12 hours/week – and pays $10/hour.
If you are interested in this temporary job position, please send your resume, cover letter, and a writing sample to Valerie Tomaselli at vtomaselli@mtmpublishing.com. Please copy (CC) Professor Denning at jkinneydenning@pace.edu.
Temp Job Opportunity!
May 7th, 2012 by admin
The digital publishing services department at HarperCollins Publishers in New York is looking for a Temp Digital/Ebook Production Assistant to play a key role in the creation of ebooks for HarperCollins Publishers. This is a significant and growing area where the focus will be on the daily management of ebook production. The length of this position is up to four months.
Reporting to the Ebook Production Manager, the assistant will help support the HarperCollins ebook program. Primary responsibilities will consist of the daily trafficking of ebook files and materials to and from vendors, developing and maintaining relationships with all divisions, and ensuring quality and developing standards. This position requires attention to detail as well as good verbal and communication skills. Knowledge of digital asset systems, book publishing, or electronic publishing is preferred but not required.
If you are interested in this temporary job position, please apply online at http://harpercollinscareers.com/, and indicate Professor Denning’s name in the “referred by” section of the application. Please email Professor Denning at jkinneydenning@pace.edu to let her know that you are applying for the position.
Graduating soon? Take Your ePortfolio With You!
May 7th, 2012 by admin
By Samantha Egan
Another semester is nearly wrapped up, and, for some of you, that means you’re getting ready to put on your cap and gown and hang your hard-earned degree on the wall. While you leave your favorite seat in the classroom behind, there’s one thing you can keep for life. No not your friends (but you can keep those, too), your ePortfolio!
If you’re thinking that you can only use your ePortfolio as a student, consider these three ways to use it as a Pace Alum:
- Send it to prospective employers
If you keep at least one ePortfolio page public, you can use this URL to share it: https://eportfolio.pace.edu/public/YourUsernameHere. Try putting this clean, simple URL at the top of your resume, along with your address and email.
- Keep in touch with your former professors
A wonderful thing about Pace’s Publishing Program is that most of the instructors work, or have worked, in the field. Take advantage of this networking opportunity by keeping your page up to date with your latest activities as a way to keep connected with your past professors.
- See what your peers are up to post graduation
Facebook is great for keeping in touch, but ePortfolio is better for seeing what your friends are up to in the publishing world.
Now is a great time to look back on your academic journey while it’s still fresh in your mind and post items that represent your best work (and maybe include a photo of your shiny new degree!).
If you’re looking for some inspiration, check out the two publishing students who won our 2012 spring contest!
Michelle Liew, Graduate Student in the Masters in Publishing Program; Spring 2012 Contest Winner
Click to see the full portfolio.
Jennifer Ross, Graduate Student in the Masters in Publishing Program; Spring 2012 Contest Winner
Click to see the full portfolio.